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  Checks in the Goods Receipt Process

Use

When Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) generates an inbound delivery, it performs a series of automatic checks in the background. This enables you to better evaluate whether you want to accept or reject delivered products. For example, you reject a product because the quantity delivered was too large, or the minimum remaining shelf life is below normal.

Integration

For example, you receive a purchase order with a specific best-before date. The checks in the goods receipt process in EWM, for example, the check for the best-before date, provide you with all the necessary data so that you are already able to decide during a goods receipt at the door if the delivered products match the purchase order data in SAP ERP or the delivery or product master data in EWM. If EWM has carried out the checks and the inspection results are positive, that is if EWM has not blocked a delivery item, you can post a partial goods receipt or the complete goods receipt.

EWM executes the checks in delivery processing. For this, the system checks the inbound delivery data or the expected goods receipt with the available delivery or purchase order data. EWM also takes into account retail-specific master data during its checks.

Prerequisites

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Features

EWM executes the checks in the background automatically. If the checks result in an error, you receive a message. You can check the corresponding data and correct it, if necessary. If no delivery position is blocked, you can then post the goods receipt.

The following are examples of checks that EWM carries out when it generates an inbound delivery:

  • Checking the best-before date or expiration date

    EWM checks the inbound delivery data with the master data in EWM.

  • Checking the Overdelivery Tolerance

    EWM checks the data of the inbound delivery or the expected goods receipt with the data from the purchase order in SAP ERP or the delivery data in EWM. The decision whether EWM is to check of the purchase order data in SAP ERP or the delivery data in EWM is made in SAP ERP.

  • Checking the product master data during goods receipt

Activities

EWM starts the checks automatically if you carry out one of the following actions on the user interface of the inbound delivery or the physical goods receipt:

  • You choose Check to first check the data in the inbound delivery or in the physical goods receipt, and to not yet post the goods receipt.

  • You choose Save to save the inbound delivery.

  • You choose Goods receipt on the user interface of the inbound delivery or Post goods receipt on the user interface of the physical goods receipt to post the goods receipt.