Managing Sessions (SAP Library - Inventory Management and Physical Inventory (MM-IM))

Managing Sessions

Use

If you want to carry out a transaction for many objects (for example, create physical inventory documents for many materials), the R/3 System can automatically execute it according to your specifications.

One advantage of this procedure is that you save monotonous entry time. Another is that a session can be processed at various times, allowing your system administrator to better utilize the capacities of the computer.

Features

This process consists of two parts:

You create a session for the objects in question.
The session is "processed". The session is "processed," meaning the system carries out the transaction for every object.

In physical inventory, work with sessions is supported for the following functions:

creating a physical inventory document (see Creating Physical Inventory Documents)

blocking material (see Block Materials for Posting)

entering the count or transferring PDC count data (*)

freezing the book inventory balance (see Freezing the Book Inventory Balance)

setting zero count automatically (see Setting Zero Count)

posting differences (see Posting Differences)

posting the count and differences (*)

posting the physical inventory document, the count, and the differences (*)

The functions marked with an asterisk (*) cannot be carried out by the R/3 System alone, since the system does not know the count results. These functions are used to transfer physical inventory data into the R/3 System if the count was carried out with another system.