Copying a Material Document
If you want to copy items from an existing material document when you create a new document, you can use either of the two functions described in the following sections.
Copying a Material Document
To enter a new document by copying the items from another document, select
Material document
Copy
(from the Inventory Management menu).
As in the function
Material document
Cancel
, you enter the document number of the reference document on the initial screen. The items of the reference document are proposed on an item selection screen. All of the data for these selected items (for example, movement type, material, and quantity) is copied into the new document.
Entering a Material Document with Reference to Another Document
Use this function to copy items from one or more material documents when you enter a goods movement.
When you enter a goods movement (for example, a goods issue), select
Goods movement (goods issue)
Create w.reference
To material doc...
or
Material document
Reference
.
A dialog box appears in which you enter the document number(s) of the document(s) to be copied.
You can copy the items from the other material documents any of the following ways:
Press ENTER. The item selection screen appears. On this screen, you can select the items to be copied.
Choose
Copy
to adopt all of the items on the material documents entered. The overview screen appears.Choose
Copy + details
to adopt all of the items on the material documents entered. The detail screen of the first item appears.
You can choose
Edit
Cancel
on the detail screen to skip the current item if you do not want to copy that item.