Use

In sales orders the system does not manage the packaging material as a separate item because it may be necessary to use a different packaging material than that specified in the corresponding characteristic in the sales order.

A separate item may be necessary for packaging materials in deliveries if you want to calculate the charge for the packaging material in the billing document, to include the packaging material in inventory management, or to map batch-managed packaging materials. You can generate non-order-specific packaging material items using the Packaging Material Items in Delivery function.

Integration

You can only generate packaging material items using the automatic packing using Handling Unit Management function.

Prerequisites

You must read Characteristics for SAP for Mill Products .

Customizing settings:

In Customizing for Logistics Execution , you must specify that both automatic packaging and generation of packaging material items are allowed for each delivery type, by choosing Shipping Deliveries Define Delivery Types .

In Customizing for Logistics Execution , you must specify the following for the delivery item category of the packaging material item:

You must specify that the delivery item category is not weight- and volume-relevant, by choosing Shipping Deliveries Define Item Categories for Deliveries .

You must specify that the item category is relevant for billing if packaging material items are billed, by choosing Shipping Deliveries Define Item Category Determination in Deliveries .

You must create an item category with the following usages for each of the above cases.

PACK usage so that the packaging material item can be billed

PAC1 usage so that the packaging material item cannot be billed

In Customizing for Logistics Execution, you must specify the following for the delivery item category of the item to be packed:

You must specify that the delivery item category can be packed, by choosing Shipping Packing Packing Control By Item Category .

Y ou must specify that each batch is to be packed separately by deselecting the Pack accumulated batch items indicator, by choosing Shipping Deliveries Define Item Categories in Deliveries .

Application Settings:

You have assigned a batch class to the material to be packed. The class contains the following characteristics.

SAP_MILLCA_PACKAGING (packaging material)

SAP_MILLCA_PACKAGING_NO (packaging material number)

You have created a material master for each packaging material for which a packaging material item is to be generated.

Features

Generation of packaging material items in deliveries is dependent on the batch management requirement for the packaging material and on the charge indicator set in the associated sales order item:

Packaging material is subject to batch management requirement

In deliveries the system generates a packaging material item for each batch. The relevant item category is determined on the basis of the charge indicator in the sales order item. The batch to be delivered is available in the packed batch split item as the characteristic value.

Packaging material is not subject to batch management requirement

The system generates one packing item per delivery for each packaging material and charge indicator in the sales order item. The packaging materials are available in the corresponding characteristics of the batches to be delivered.

Activities

You specify in the sales order whether or not the packing item is to be billed using the Customer Condition Group 1 field in the item data on the Additional Data A tab page. The condition group can be determined automatically from the additional data of the customer master or you can enter it manually in the sales order.

Handling units with reels as the packaging material cannot be “emptied”. Instead you must delete the handling units and then create new ones.

You cannot pack any additional length-based material in a handling unit that consists of a reel and a length-based material.

Example

In the cable industry reels are generally used as the packaging material on which cables are delivered. The system generates the reel items in the delivery as packing items (HUM) using the Packaging Material Items in Delivery function.

One reel item in the delivery

The system groups the packing items in the delivery if all the following conditions are satisfied:

same charge indicator in the associated sales order items

reels are not subject to batch management

same reel material

Several reel items in the delivery

The system generates a separate reel item for each packaging in the delivery if one of the following conditions is satisfied:

Different charge indicators in the associated sales order items

Reels are subject to batch management

Different reel materials