Safekeeping 

Purpose

Safekeeping is a customs procedure that begins, in most cases, automatically after completion of the transit procedure when you have received unloading permission from SAP Global Trade Services (SAP GTS), and you post goods receipt. The goods remain in safekeeping until the employees in SAP GTS have made a decision about their subsequent use. For example, are you to import the goods and pay customs duties and taxes, or are the goods to be included in the customs warehousing procedure?

Prerequisites

●      You have defined a GTS system for the warehouse number in Customizing for Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) under Extended Warehouse Management ( Interfaces ( GTS Integration ( Define GTS System for Warehouse Number.

●      You have set the Customs Block indicator for the relevant previous document types in Customizing for EWM under Interfaces ( GTS Integration ( Define Previous Document Types. In Germany, the relevant previous document types are T- and T1, for example.

●      You have defined stock types with the role Customs Blocked Stock in Customizing for EWM under Master Data ( Product ( Define Stock Types. All stock types that begin with C are delivered in the standard system.

Process

       1.      A previous document type exists as the reference document in the inbound delivery, and this previous document type is relevant to customs block.

You post goods receipt for this inbound delivery. EWM transfers this data via the ERP system to SAP GTS.

The goods are now in safekeeping and have a stock type with the role customs blocked stock. During this time, use of the goods is not permitted You can, however, put away the goods and move them in the warehouse. The stock type serves to separate the goods from the normal stock on a logical level. It is not necessary to physically separate the goods in the warehouse.

The following goods movements and activities are not permitted:

○       Posting goods issue or creating loading warehouse tasks in the goods issue process

○       Stock changes except for changes to the availability in the case of putaway within customs blocked stock

○       Initial entry of stock balances

○       Scrapping

○       Clearing differences to the ERP system in the Difference Analyzer

○       Quality check for inbound deliveries

○       Performing certain activities for value-added services (VAS)

You can use the Business Add-In (BAdI) Stock Checks for Goods Movements (/SCWM/EX_CORE_GM_STOCK) to define additional restrictions for goods movements.

       2.      The employees in SAP GTS check the customs conditions for the goods and send the release to EWM via tRFC. EWM automatically makes a posting change for the goods to normal stock. You can put away the goods either before or after the release.

If SAP GTS sends the release immediately, the safekeeping is short, in other words, simply for the time required for communication with the customs authority.

EWM releases the customs block stock as soon as the notification arrives, unless the customs blocked stock is blocked by an open warehouse task (for example, a putaway warehouse task). In this case, you must start the release again later on. You must schedule the report /SCWM/GTS_CBREL_MON in the background to postprocess such messages.

If you have picked the quantity for the outbound delivery from the customs blocked stock, you can stop invoicing before goods issue by using the following Business Add-Ins (BAdIs):

§  S&R Activities for a Transportation Unit(/SCWM/EX_SR_ACTION_TU)

§  S&R Activities for a Vehicle(/SCWM/EX_SR_ACTION_VEH)

These enable you to release the customs blocked stock before the system generates the invoice.

See also:

Connection of Delivery Processing to Safekeeping