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Purpose

Handling unit inventory was designed for the purposes of physical inventory in HU-managed storage locations where conventional inventory management is not possible.

For storage locations where physical inventory can also be performed using the Warehouse Management System, you should use the Structure linkWM Inventory as long as no differences exist or have been posted for multilevel handling units.

Process Flow

To perform a physical inventory for handling units, proceed as follows:

  1. Create a HU physical inventory.
  2. Enter the quantities counted for the handling unit
  3. Check the inventory differences.
  4. Clear the inventory differences for the handling unit in Inventory Management.

To process the physical inventory you can also:

Differences for Multilevel and Serialized HUs in the WM Inventory

If differences occur for multilevel handling units, you can perform a physical inventory for the handling unit using one of the following two methods:

  1. Cancel the handling unit from the warehouse inventory and adjust the handling unit to the actual situation using the Edit Handling Units function.

In this case, the stock difference is passed on to the non-HU-managed partner storage location (in other words, you must adjust the stock using a physical inventory for the non-HU-managed partner storage location).

  1. Cancel the handling unit from the warehouse inventory, and adjust the handling unit using a HU inventory.

In each case, to correct the handling unit you must delete it from the warehouse inventory document. After you have corrected the handling unit, repeat the warehouse inventory for the storage bins affected, since the HU inventory does not update any inventory data to the storage bin.

Physical Inventory of Handling Units in the WMS

The WM inventory usually refers to the outermost handling unit (HU). Since this outer HU corresponds to a storage unit, the inventory is executed in the WM system, as before. In the inventory process, the system counts the material quantity or the storage units for each storage bin.

If differences are noted during inventory, a difference HU is created for the difference quantity in the differences storage type as the differences are picked from WM. The difference HU is the basis for clearing out stock in inventory management. For more information, see Structure linkWM Inventory.

Result

The handling unit was physically inventoried.

 

 

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