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Purpose

If you use backflushing, the withdrawal of components as well as the consumed activity differences for an order with planned quantities will be posted. The differences for these plan quantities are generated when you create an inventory or a manual activity posting. you can the distribute the differences proportionally to:

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Note

You can only debit a material with the proportional costs from the inventory when distributing material consumption differences

Process Flow

Distributing Inventory Differences

If you distribute inventory differences to orders and/or to product cost collectors this results in the posting of goods movements, when subsequently debiting the material or finished product, then values are posted.

The distribution of inventory differences refers to:

  1. Execute the Structure linkPhysical Inventory.
    If you want to distribute inventory differences, you must set the indicator distribute differences

You can also distribute inventory differences if you have implemented the decentralized warehouse management system (WMS). In this case, you set the indicator distribute differences when creating the physical inventory document

  1. Generate the default distribution for the consumption differences
    The system displays the default distribution of the differences

You can
  1. Distribute Consumption Differences

Note Possible corrections

You can edit the distribution before you post it. You can check the quantities to be distributed and decide whether you want to allocate these differences to the corresponding order, the product cost collector or to the finished product.

Note

If you want to reverse the distribution of inventory differences, then you can regenerate the distribution with the reversed settings
  1. Post Consumption Differences

Distributing Activity Differences

  1. Run the activity posting.
  2. Generate distribution for activity differences

You can

Note Possible corrections

You can edit the distribution before you post it. You can check the quantities to be distributed and decide whether you want to allocate these differences to the corresponding order, the product cost collector or to the finished product.

 

 

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