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 EWM, Additional GTINs (EANs/UPCs) for Product

 

Technical Data

Technical Name of Business Function

SCM_EWM_MEAN

Type of Business Function

Enterprise Business Function

Available From

SAP enhancement package 2 for SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM) 7.0

Technical Usage

EWM

Application Component

Extended Warehouse Management (SCM-EWM)

Required Business Function

Not relevant

You can use this business function to maintain and use additional Global Trade Item Numbers (GTINs) (including International Article Numbers (EANs) and Universal Product Codes (UPCs)) for a unit of measure of a product in SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM). You can use additional GTINs, for example, to identify the same unit of measure of the same product by different vendors.

Integration

You can download additional GTINs from SAP ERP using Core Interface (CIF) by means of initial transfer or change transfer of material master data. To do so, you must activate the business function SCM, CIF Transfer of Additional GTINs (EANs/UPCs) for Material (LOG_SCM_MEAN_INT). This business function is available as of SAP enhancement package 6 for SAP ERP 6.0.

Caution Caution

The additional GTINs (EANs/UPCs) transferred from SAP ERP overwrite the additional GTINs that you have maintained in SAP EWM.

End of the caution.

Prerequisites

You have installed the following components as of the version mentioned:

Type of Component

Component

Required for the Following Features Only

Software Component

SCMEWM 702

SCM_BASIS 702

Features

Maintenance of Additional GTINs

You can maintain additional GTINs in the transaction for maintaining product master data (/SAPAPO/MAT1) and the transaction for maintaining warehouse product master data (/SCWM/MAT1) as you can maintain them in the transaction for maintaining material master data in SAP ERP.

To maintain additional GTINs for a product, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Start of the navigation path Extended Warehouse Management Next navigation step Master Data Next navigation step Product Next navigation step Maintain Product End of the navigation path.

To maintain additional GTINs for a warehouse product, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Start of the navigation path Extended Warehouse Management Next navigation step Master Data Next navigation step Product Next navigation step Maintain Warehouse Product End of the navigation path.

On the tab page Additional GTINs/EANs, you can display, edit, and delete additional GTINs. The Units of Meas. (Units of Measures) tab page displays in the field Additional GTINs/EANs exist if additional GTINs exist for a unit of measure of a product in SAP EWM.

Identification of a Product by Additional GTINs

If additional GTINs exists in SAP EWM, you can use them to identify products in the functions where the entry of a GTIN (EAN/UPC) is possible, for example, in product validation using radio-frequency (RF).