Automatic Packing in the Inbound Delivery 

Purpose

Your vendor sends you inbound deliveries that do not contain any packing information about handling units. You can specify that the system automatically packs any unpacked delivery items. The packed goods can then be included in process-oriented storage control.

Prerequisites

●      You have created and activated a packaging specification (see also: Creation of Packaging Specifications).

●      Determination for the packaging specification is configured for your business characteristics (for example, vendor and product). (see also: Packaging Specification Determination)

●      You have configured the determination procedure for automatic packing in Customizing. For more information, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) under Goods Receipt Process ® Inbound Delivery ® Define WM-Specific Settings for Document Types.

If you have set the No Automatic Packing indicator in Customizing for EWM under Inbound Delivery ® Manual Settings ® Define Document Types for Inbound Delivery Process, the system does not perform automatic packing when it creates an inbound delivery. It does not perform automatic packing either if you configure a determination procedure for automatic packing.

Process

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       1.      An inbound delivery notification arrives in EWM via the ERP interface.

       2.      When you activate the inbound delivery notification, the system simultaneously creates the handling units (HU), where the vendor has sent you the HU data. Moreover, at this time, the system calls packaging specification determination for the unpacked items, using the determination procedure you have defined.

       3.      If the system finds a packaging specification, it creates handling units according to the packaging specification. When creating packaging specifications, you should ensure that the HU Check function does not display any errors in the log. The system can only perform automatic packing successfully if the packaging specification contains all HU-relevant data (in particular, packaging material, target quantity, and product).