Consignment Processing in SAP Retail 

Use

Consignment processing in SAP Retail gives you flexibility when dealing with vendor consignment goods. If you transfer vendor consignment goods using stock transfers and delivery, you can keep the same stock category, or the system can convert the goods to your own stock, depending on the requirement of the receiving site and the result of stock determination. If you transfer vendor consignment goods and keep the consignment stock category, the goods remain the property of the external vendor until they are sold.

The following process describes how goods are processed, with the focus on vendor consignment goods. However, it is also possible to process goods in consignment stock and goods in your own stock at the same time.

Prerequisites

·        You have activated consignment processing in SAP Retail.

For more information, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Logistics – General under Retail Consignment Processing ® Activate Retail Consignment Processing.

·        You have defined strategies for stock determination for goods issues (delivery) for your own stock and for consignment stock.

For more information, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Logistics - General under Retail Consignment Processing ® Define Strategies for Stock Determination and Define Alternate Stock Determination Rules for Consignment Processing.

·        You have created purchasing info records for consignment. For stock transfers, the price test must define the same price for the issuing and the receiving site.

For more information, see the Purchasing (MM-PUR)component under Purchasing Info Record.

·        For preferential procurement of articles for consignment stock, you have set the Consignment Control flag.

·        To enable the pricing purchasing info records for consignment to be taken into account, you have defined the Source of Supply appropriately in the article master data.

The settings for the source of supply and consignment control must be consistent.

Procedure

 

       1.      You order goods as vendor consignment goods from an external vendor. You carry the goods in Consignment special stock in your site.

       2.      You can transfer vendor consignment goods as often as necessary across sites. Depending on the stock situation and the settings for consignment control, the system specifies whether the stock category is to be changed or remain the same.

You cannot transfer vendor consignment goods that the system has converted to your own stock back to the consignment stock, as the transfer of title has already taken place.

For more information about stock determination, see Goods Issues for Stock Transfers.

       3.      You can transfer vendor consignment goods across company codes.

If the consignment stock category is retained, no clearing is performed between the company codes because the goods remain the property of whoever is managing the special stock.

For more information, see the Special Stock and Special Procurement Forms (MM-IM)componentunder Cross-Company Stock Transfer.

       4.      You can use an allocation table to control the purchase order and the stock transfer of vendor consignment goods.

For more information, see Allocation of Vendor Consignment Goods.

       5.      In consignment processing, you can display the stock currently being transferred.

For more information, see Displaying Consignment Stock in Transit.

       6.      You can delete all documents that the system creates in consignment processing.

       7.      You can return vendor consignment goods to the external or internal vendors.

For more information, see Returns of Vendor Consignment Goods.

       8.      You can perform a physical inventory for vendor consignment goods.

For more information, see the Inventory Management (MM-IM) component under Physical Inventory of Consignment Material.

       9.      You use POS systems to process the sale of vendor consignment goods. The report checks whether the stock is unique or whether stock determination is required.

For more information, see Determining the Stock Situation After Sales.

   10.      A sale creates a legally binding contract with the external vendor.

For more information about settlement, see the Special Stock and Special Procurement Forms (MM-IM) component under Setting Consignment Liabilities.