Blocking Materials for Posting (SAP Library - Inventory Management and Physical Inventory (MM-IM))

Blocking Materials for Posting

There are two ways to block materials for posting for the duration of the physical inventory count:

Blocking when Creating
Blocking Later

Blocking when Creating

To block the materials of a physical inventory document when you create the document, do the following:

When creating an individual physical inventory document, select the Posting block field on the initial screen.
When creating a session, select the Posting block field on the selection screen.

Blocking Later

You can block materials later either for an individual physical inventory document or (using sessions) for several physical inventory documents. To do this, proceed as follows:

individual processing

From the inventory screen, select Physical inventory document ® Change. The initial screen appears.

On the initial screen, enter the number of the physical inventory document. Since the posting block is specified in the document header, select Goto ® Header from the menu. The header data screen appears.

On the header data screen, select the Posting block field.

Post the document by selecting Physical inventory document ® Post from the menu.

session processing

From the Physical Inventory menu, select Sessions ® Block material. The criterion screen appears.

On the criterion screen, enter the number of the physical inventory document (or a range of physical inventory document numbers), and select the Posting block field.

Select Program ® Execute from the menu. The system creates a session. A list appears with all of the physical inventory documents that are to be blocked according to your selection. The system displays a message with the name of the session.