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Use

The aim of counting is to check the quality of a sample of inbound deliveries. This means that counting is a quality assurance measure in the goods receipt process that you can use to ensure consistency between the quantities entered in the system and the actual quantities.

Integration

  • The Quality Inspection Engine (QIE), an integral part of the SCM system, provides essential functions that enable a system-supported check (counting) in the inbound delivery process.

  • Integration with an ERP system is required to enable inbound delivery notifications to be created automatically in Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) .

Prerequisites

General settings for counting
  • You have implemented the QIE and executed the following in Customizing for EWM under Start of the navigation path Cross-Process Settings Next navigation step Quality Management: End of the navigation path

    • You have assigned decision codes to decision groups.

    • You have defined which of the available properties of the inspection object types the system is to use as dynamic criteria when creating the inspection document.

    • You have defined a percentage that specifies how many delivery items are to be counted.

    • You have checked that the inspection object types and their properties have been activated.

  • You have defined quantity intervals and value intervals in Customizing.

    For more information, see Customizing for EWM under Cross-Process Settings -> Start of the navigation path Quality Management Next navigation step Settings for Inspection Rules Next navigation step Maintain Quantity Interval for Counting End of the navigation path and Maintain Value Interval for Counting .

  • You have defined inspection rules.To do so, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Start of the navigation path Extended Warehouse Management Next navigation step Master Data Next navigation step Quality Management Next navigation step Maintain Inspection Rule. End of the navigation path

Additional settings for explicit counting

Storage control

  • You have defined the following in Customizing for EWM Start of the navigation path underCross-Process Settings Next navigation step Warehouse Task Next navigation step Define Process-Oriented Storage Control: End of the navigation path

    • Storage types and storage bins (basis of the counting station)

    • External storage process steps

    • Definition of the storage process

  • You have defined warehouse process types and control indicators for determining warehouse process types in Customizing for EWM under Start of the navigation path Cross-Process Settings Next navigation step Warehouse Task. End of the navigation path

  • You have defined warehouse products.To do so, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Start of the navigation path Extended Warehouse Management Next navigation step Master Data Next navigation step Product Next navigation step Maintain Warehouse Product. End of the navigation path

Counting station

  • You have defined a work center for counting (counting station).To do so, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Start of the navigation path Extended Warehouse Management Next navigation step Master Data Next navigation step Work Center Next navigation step Define Master Data Attributes. End of the navigation path

Features

When you change or activate an inbound delivery notification, the system first determines whether the delivery items are to be counted. To do this, it checks if an active inspection object type and inspection rule exist. Inspection object types define the inspection process. You use the inspection rule to define when a delivery item is to be counted. To do this, you draw on certain inbound delivery notification properties:

  • Warehouse number

  • Document type of the delivery

  • Partner (supplier)

  • Product

  • Quantity interval

  • Value interval

If a valid inspection rule exists, the system creates an inspection document, taking into account the dynamic criteria. It marks the relevant delivery item for counting.

You then perform counting either explicitly or implicitly:

  • Explicit counting

    You must enter the count results for the products at the counting station. The system determines the storage bin (storage type) for this counting station on the basis of the storage control settings. You can perform explicit counting only for handling units.

  • Implicit counting

    The information specifying that a product must be counted is part of the warehouse task data. If a difference is determined, you must confirm the warehouse task with differences (exception code) to end the transaction. You can perform implicit counting only for unpacked products.

Activities

Explicit counting
  1. You have changed or activated an inbound delivery notification in EWM . The system has found an active inspection object type and an inspection rule, and has created an inspection document.

    Create a warehouse task with reference to the inbound delivery and confirm it.To do this, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Start of the navigation path Extended Warehouse Management Next navigation step Work Scheduling Next navigation step Create Warehouse Task for Warehouse Request Next navigation step Putaway for Inbound Delivery. End of the navigation path The system uses the storage control settings to determine the storage bin for counting for all the delivery items with an inspection document.

    If the system had not created an inspection document because an active inspection object type and inspection rule were not available, the delivery items would be put away immediately at the final storage bin.

  2. Call the counting station that is assigned to the storage bin for counting and enter the count results.To do this, on the SAP Easy Access screen, Start of the navigation path chooseExtended Warehouse Management Next navigation step Execution Next navigation step Quality Inspection and Count. End of the navigation path

Implicit counting

You have changed or activated an inbound delivery notification in EWM . The system has found an active inspection object type and an inspection rule, and has created an inspection document.

Create a warehouse task with reference to the inbound delivery, confirm the count results, and confirm the warehouse task.To do this, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Start of the navigation path Extended Warehouse Management Next navigation step Work Scheduling Next navigation step Create Warehouse Task for Warehouse Request Next navigation step Putaway for Inbound Delivery. End of the navigation path The delivery items are put away immediately at the final storage bin.