Auxiliary Product Consumption Posting 

Use

For the value-added services performed at the work centers, you can record which auxiliary products you used for particular activities, and in what amounts.

Prerequisites

You have set the Consumption-relevant for VAS indicator in the storage data of the product master for the products for which you want to record consumption posting. To do so, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Extended Warehouse Management ® Master Data ® Product ® Maintain Warehouse Product.

You have assigned a storage bin to a work center or to a warehouse number from where you post the auxiliary products in goods issue. The stock of the auxiliary products is located in this storage bin, and this stock is then also consumed by this storage bin as part of the value-added services. To assign a storage bin, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Extended Warehouse Management ® Master Data ® Assign Storage Bins for VAS Consumption Posting.

You have maintained a packaging specification and have assigned auxiliary packaging materials to the packaging specification levels (such as preservation, packing into individual containers). To create a packaging specification, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Extended Warehouse Management ® Master Data ® Packaging Specification ® Maintain Packaging Specification.

If you want to use customer-specific movement types in the ERP system, you can define these in Customizing. For more information, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Extended Warehouse Management under Interfaces ® ERP Integration ® Goods Movements ® Define Customer-Specific Movement Types.

Features

If you have set the consumption relevance for the required auxiliary products for value-added services, and have assigned a special storage bin for the auxiliary products, you can record consumption of all auxiliary products in the system.

The system uses the following criteria to automatically determine the quantity of respective auxiliary products that is to be posted: 

●     The status confirmation for a VAS order 

●     The VAS activity confirmation  

●     The quantity confirmation for a VAS activity

The system determines the respective quantities by using the quantity ratios in the packaging specification of the products being processed. However, you can also manually overwrite the quantity determined by the system (such as for unplanned overconsumption or underconsumption).

When you save the confirmation, the system performs consumption posting for the auxiliary products. You can also change quantities of auxiliary products that have already been posted. If you enter a negative value for the quantity of auxiliary product being posted, the consumption is reduced and the system increases the stock in the storage bin. If you enter a quantity to be posted additionally, you can increase the consumption at a later time.

Posting reduces the auxiliary product stock in Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) and the stock in the connected ERP system. The standard movement types 291 and 292 are used for consumption posting in the ERP system. However, you can also use your own movement types.