Inventory Management: Processing Empties (SAP Library

Inventory Management: Processing Empties

Use

Empties processing allows you to create a link in Inventory Management between a full product and an empty article.

Various functions make it easier for you to manage your stocks of empties and split them up into their individual components.

Prerequisites

You can only process empties if you use SAP R/3 Retail.

Before you can use the empties functionality, you must activate empties processing by making the required settings in Customizing for Materials Management.

If you assign empties to the variants of a generic article, please note the following:

Variants to which empties are assigned must be handled in the supply chain as single articles. They are not allowed to be ordered or taken into stock via the higher-level generic article, as the Goods Receipt component does not support hierarchical sub-items (that is, Generic articles -> Variants-> Empties).

You must also handle variants to which empties are assigned as single articles in the Sales Order component, as this component does not take hierarchical sub-items into account either.