Automatic Creation of Storage Data
Use
If a material is located in a storage location, the storage data for that storage location must exist in the material master record, so that the system can manage the stock quantities at storage-location level.
Physical inventory is only possible if the storage location data of the material is available in the storage location.
Storage data can be manually entered when the material master record is created, or it can be automatically created during the first goods movement in that storage location.
Features
Automatic Creation of Storage Data
If automatic creation of storage data is allowed in Customizing in that plant and for that movement type, the storage data is created automatically during the first goods movement in that storage location.
Caution
Storage data is only created automatically if the given quantity is posted to "normal" storage location stock. They are not created upon receipts into any of the special stocks (such as the sales order stock).
Manual Creation of Storage Data
You must enter the storage data for a storage location manually before you post the first goods receipt to that storage location if:
Automatic creation of storage data is not allowed in that plant or for that movement type
You want to define special data for the material at the storage location (for example, fixed bin location for the material in the storage location)
If the only data missing from the material master record for a new storage location is the storage data, you can choose
Other
Create storage locations
from the material master menu to add to the material master record the storage data for this storage location (refer to
Storage-Location-Specific Data
).