Process Management and Control
Process management and control manages business transactions using process indicators in a delivery document. A process indicator can allow or prohibit a business transaction or it may have no influence at all.
Integration
The process control described here is used in delivery processing exclusively. Process control can influence field control.
Features
A process indicator has multiple values, for example process indicator Scrapping
has the value Not Allowed
and Required
.
A process indicator describes the entire business transaction represented by the delivery document.
For the document header and document item, SAP delivers a set of process indicators in the system profile and customer profile of process control.
The process indicators are linked to the document and item types of delivery processing via a process profile. You can change the settings for the process indicators in the process profile.
When SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM) creates a delivery document, the system sets the process indicator. You can then no longer make changes to these. However, if you have set the value Allowed
for process indicator IBGI
(invoice creation before goods issue) in Customizing for Extended Warehouse Management
under 
Cross-Process Settings
Delivery Processing
Process Management and Control
Define Process Profile for Delivery Document
, you can change the value of this process indicator in a direct outbound delivery order. However, you can only do this as long as the outbound delivery has not yet been created.
You can choose from the following process indicators:
Process Indicator | Meaning | Use |
|---|---|---|
Manual creation | Certain deliveries, such as direct outbound delivery orders and posting changes, can be created and processed in SAP EWM directly. They do not require a preceding document in SAP ERP. | |
Preceding document | Allows a reference to a preceding document (purchase order, sales order, or manufacturing order) | Inbound and outbound deliveries usually have a reference to a preceding document, inbound deliveries for purchase orders, and outbound deliveries for sales orders. Posting changes or outbound deliveries without reference, on the other hand, do not refer to a preceding document. |
Production | Allows processes for production, such as kit to stock, goods receipt for production | If inbound and outbound deliveries are used in a production process, you have a reference to a manufacturing order. |
Scrapping | Allows subprocesses for scrapping | In the scrapping process, you perform a planned reduction of overstock in two steps: you first post change the stock to locked stock, and then post the locked stock. |
Pickup | Allows a process for direct sales | In this process, you only make goods available for the sales location within the warehouse. You do not perform any transportation activities. |
Invoice Creation Before Goods Issue | Allows invoice creation before goods issue | You can create the invoice in the early stages of the process flow within the packing or loading goods process step. |
Correction delivery | Allows posting differences to the stock of the differences that are to be cleared | If you identify warehouse-external differences, for example, in a stock transfer process or for a customer delivery, which require warehouse stock to be corrected, you can post these to the stock of the differences to be cleared using a correction delivery. |
Communication to ERP | Prevents replication of inbound deliveries to SAP ERP and allows goods receipt posting that are communicated to SAP ERP via the goods movement interface instead of the delivery interface. | If set to |
Activities
In Customizing for SAP EWM, you define the process indicators for the delivery document header and for the delivery document item. For more information, see Customizing for Extended Warehouse Management
under Cross-Process Settings
Delivery Processing
Process Management and Control
Define Process Profile for Delivery Document Header
or Define Process Profile for Delivery Document Item
.