Planning Goods Receipts (SAP Library - Inventory Management and Physical Inventory (MM-IM))

Planning Goods Receipts

Use

The Inventory Management component can handle both planned goods receipts and unplanned goods receipts. Planning a goods receipt in advance means storing certain information that is important for the goods receipt before the actual goods receipt is posted, for example:

What? (which material?)
How much? (in which quantity?)
When? (on which delivery date?)
From where? (from which vendor or plant?)
To where? (to which destination, into which stock?)

The goal of this planning is to simplify and accelerate the goods receipt process and to better organize the work at the goods receiving point, so that bottlenecks can be avoided, for example.

Also, if goods receipts are planned, Materials Planning can monitor the stocks of ordered or manufactured materials and achieve an optimal inventory balance.

Unless receipts are planned, the system cannot track materials that have been ordered. Planned receipts, therefore, are crucial to regulating the level of inventory in the warehouse. Planned receipts are also important for determining whether you have received materials promised by vendors or in-house production. Without them, the system cannot establish a link between orders and received material.

Features

Depending on the source of information (that is, the document in which the data relevant to planning is stored), the system distinguishes between three types of planned goods receipts:

planned goods receipts using purchase orders

If you use the Purchasing component to order materials from a vendor, you do not have to plan goods receipts manually. The purchase orders created by MM Purchasing contain all of the information needed for planning the goods receipt.

planned goods receipts using production orders

If you plan production orders with the PP component, you do not need to plan goods receipts from production manually. The orders contain all information necessary to plan a goods receipt.

planned goods receipts using reservations

If your company does not have the MM Purchasing component or the PP Production Orders component, you enter reservations to plan goods receipts from the vendor or from production.

Although reservations can be used to plan goods receipts, their main purpose is to plan goods issues (or withdrawals). Refer to Reservation.

Monitoring Planned Goods Receipts

The planned goods receipts are shown as follows in the output list for the stock overview and plant availability:

Planning via...

Stock

Purchase order

Open PO quantity (total)

Order

Open order quantity (total)

Reservation

Planned receipts

The documents used to plan goods receipts serve as reference documents for entering the goods movement.

Planning via...	Stock
Purchase order	Open PO quantity (total)
Order	Open order quantity (total)
Reservation	Planned receipts