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Function documentationPackaging Specification Determination

 

You can use this function to determine a packaging specification using the business characteristics you have defined. The system uses the condition technique to do this.

From the business characteristics predefined by SAP, you select those that are suitable for your processes (for example, product and vendor). A set of business characteristics forms a condition type. You can define different condition types for different processes.

After you have specified a condition type, you can assign a packaging specification to these business characteristics. This means that you can, for example, specify that for a product P, vendor A, and process Automatic Packing in the Inbound Delivery, the system finds packaging specification PS. At the end of this process, handling units are created on the basis of the packaging specification found.

Integration

The following processes use packaging specification determination:

In Extended Warehouse Management (EWM):

  • Automatic packing in the inbound delivery

  • Packaging material determination during warehouse order creation

  • Packaging material determination in the outbound delivery

  • Packaging material determination during deconsolidation

  • Packaging material determination when packing in the packing station

    • For an outbound delivery

    • For a posting change

    • For a stock transfer

  • Slotting

  • Internal warehouse processes (such as determination of palletization data, determination of the operative unit of measure)

In Service Parts Planning (SPP):

  • ATP Sourcing Rounding Rules

  • MM Deployment Rounding Rules

Prerequisites

  • You have made the Customizing settings for packaging specification determination.

  • In the SAP standard system, Customizing settings for packaging specification determination have been predefined. However, you can make enhancements in the customer namespace. For packaging specification determination, you require the following:

    • Condition table

    • Access sequence

    • Condition Type

    • Determination procedure

  • You have created a packaging specification, and specified and activated determination records.

Features

For more information about condition technique, see the CA documentation for message control. Packaging specification determination runs using the same principles.

Activities

The following describes how to create determination records in the system:

  1. On the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Start of the navigation path Extended Warehouse Management Next navigation step Master Data Next navigation step Packaging Specification Next navigation step Maintain Packaging Specification End of the navigation path.

    The Packaging Specification Overview screen appears.

  2. Select an existing packaging specification or create a new one and switch to change mode. If you have already activated the selected packaging specification, you must create a new version of this packaging specification first.

  3. On the Determination (Details for PS Header) tab page , enter a condition type or use the proposed condition type (see Customizing Define Level Set). This screen always displays all condition records that you have created for the packaging specification.

  4. Choose one of the proposed condition tables for which you want to create a condition record. If you have used the access sequence to assign more than one condition table to the condition type, perform this activity. You can configure these combinations as you want using Customizing. Choose OK.

  5. Depending on the condition table/key combination you selected, make the mandatory entries (the current packaging specification number is entered automatically in the column). If necessary, change the sequence number of the condition record, to change the sequence of the determination.

    If, for example, you selected the key combination Supply Chain Unit/Product, then the subsequent mandatory entries are the supply chain unit and the product.

    If the system shows you condition records for other packaging specifications, then any condition record that is also displayed has the same key combination as the newly created record. Check whether there is an overlap of the two keys.

  6. Save your condition record.

  7. If there are no active packaging specifications, then you activate the packaging specification.

    If there is an active version of the packaging specification, then the condition records refer to the packaging specification number (regardless of the version), and the system takes this packaging specification into account during packaging specification determination.

  8. You can use the Condition Maintenance transaction for activated packaging specifications, to add new condition records, or to change or delete existing records. Here you can also see an overview of all condition records, without reference to specific packaging specifications.

    Caution Caution

    If the semantic key (in other words, the condition table, all fields of the condition table, and the condition sequence) are the same within a validity period, this results in an overlap of two condition records.

    If at least one condition record exists and it would not result in an overlap with condition records that already have active packaging specifications, then you can activate a packaging specification.

    If at least one condition record for the active packaging specification contains an error (in other words, will not be included in the determination), or if no condition record exists for this packaging specification, a yellow traffic light is displayed in the packaging specification overview.

    End of the caution.