Goods Receipt Posting Triggered by SAP ERP 

Purpose

You want to post goods receipt for products from production. For this, you work in Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) with inbound deliveries that SAP ERP generates parallel to production.

When you confirm the last production step for a product in the production order, meaning a production or process order, SAP ERP generates an inbound delivery instead of a material document. The inbound delivery provides you with information about the material and quantity currently being produced.

EWM uses document type IDPD Inbound Delivery from Production to differentiate that an EWM inbound delivery from production takes place.

For more information about document type determination, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Extended Warehouse Management under Goods Receipt Process ® Inbound Delivery ® Define Document Type Determination for Inbound Delivery Process.

Prerequisites

●      You are working with SAP SCM and SAP ERP. For more information, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Extended Warehouse Management under Interfaces  ® ERP Integration ® General Settings ® Set Control Parameters for ERP Version Control.

●      You are using simple transport routes, for example without stock transport orders, so that your goods receipt posting in SAP ERP directly triggers generation of the EWM inbound delivery.

Process

The following figure provides an overview of the process flow:

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       1.      You generate a production order, namely a production or process order, and release it.

The production order contains a plant / storage location combination that refers to a warehouse in which you are using EWM. In other words, EWM manages the plant and storage location combination.

       2.      You confirm the end of the designated production steps in the production order. In doing this, SAP ERP updates the finished quantity and marks the completed production steps.

       3.      When you confirm the last production step for a product in the production order, SAP ERP generates an SAP ERP inbound delivery and transmits it to EWM. Prerequisite for this is that you have made corresponding settings in Customizing for SAP ERP so that SAP ERP automatically executes order confirmation for the goods receipt. This enables the confirmation of the last production step for a product to trigger goods receipt in SAP ERP.

For more information, see:

○       Implementation Guide (IMG) for SAP ERP:

■       Production ® Production Control ® Master Data ® Define Production Scheduling Profile

■       Production ® Basic Data ® Routing ® Operation Data ® Define Control Key

○       SAP Help Portal, under SAP ERP ® SAP ERP Central Component ® Logistics ® Logistics Execution (LE) ® Goods Receipt Process for Inbound Deliveries ® goods Receipt ® Goods Receipt Posting ® Posting Partial Goods Receipts for Inbound Deliveries

○       SAP Help Portal, under SAP ERP ® SAP ERP Central Component ® Logistics ® Production Planning and Control (PP) ® Production Orders (PP-SFC) ® Order Release

○       SAP Help Portal, under SAP ERP ® SAP ERP Central Component ® Logistics ® Production Planning and Control (PP) ® Production Orders (PP-SFC) ® Goods Movement ® Automatic Goods Receipt

Once you have released the production order you can also generate an SAP ERP inbound delivery manually. For more information, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for SAP ERP under Logistics ® Materials Management ® Purchasing ® Purchase Order ® Subsequent Functions ® MIGO – Goods Receipt.

If EWM does not manage the plant and storage location combination, SAP ERP generates a material document immediately at goods receipt posting. You put away the product, and SAP ERP updates the stock.

       4.      EWM receives a corresponding inbound delivery notification from SAP ERP, and generates an EWM inbound delivery corresponding to this. The inbound delivery contains a link to the production order in SAP ERP.

       5.      You transport the finished product into the warehouse, for example to the goods receiving area.

       6.      You can use the number of the production order to find the corresponding EWM inbound delivery, post the goods receipt, and put away the product.

       7.      EWM transmits the goods receipt posting to SAP ERP. SAP ERP also posts goods receipt for the related SAP ERP inbound delivery. SAP ERP also updates the stock in the production order and in the SAP ERP inbound delivery, due to the goods movement.

Result

You have posted goods receipt for your products from production, and updated the stock in SAP ERP.