Storing Documents

Purpose

In Inventory Management, you can use SAP ArchiveLink to store documents in external storge systems. You can store the following documents with this function:

Incoming print-format documents for goods receipts for purchase orders and goods movements without reference (for example, delivery notes from vendors or goods receipt/issue slips).
Inventory count results that have been entered on paper

The scanned-in documents are stored in an external storage system and linked to the relevant SAP documents. You can display the stored documents from the display of the SAP documents.

Prerequisites

You configure storage for documents in Customizing.

Documents for goods movements

In Customizing for Inventory Management, in the step Activate Storage for Incoming Documents , you define for each transaction and movement type whether you want to store the incoming documents.

Documents for physical inventory

In Customizing for SAP ArchiveLink , in Start of the navigation path Administration Settings Next navigation step Activate Bar Code Storage End of the navigation path , you specify whether you want to store documents containing physical inventory count results with bar codes.

See also:

Storing Incoming Delivery Notes (MM-IM)

Storing Inventory Count Results (MM-IM)