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  Managing Sessions

Purpose

If you want to carry out a transaction for many objects (for example, create physical inventory documents for many materials), the SAP 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.

Scope of Functions

This process consists of two parts:

  1. You create a session for the objects in question.

  2. The session is “processed”. The system now performs the operation 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 a material (see Blocking Materials for Postings )

  • Entering the count or transferring PDC count data (*)

  • Freezing the book inventory (see Freezing the Book Inventory )

  • Setting a 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 SAP System alone, since the system does not know the counting results. These functions are used to transfer physical inventory data into the SAP System if the count was carried out with another system.