Inventory Management: Special Articles Categories 

 

Use

Articles that have a special article category are those which are not single articles. The following explains how these articles are handled in Inventory Management:

·        Generic articles

Generic articles have variants, for example, in different colors and sizes. The variants are processed in goods movements.

See: Inventory Management: Generic Articles

 

·        Structured articles

Structured articles consist of a header article and a bill of material with components. Examples are sets, prepacks and displays. In Inventory Management you can split up a header article into its constituent components or create a header article from the individual components.

See Inventory Management: Structured Articles

 

·        Empties

You can assign a full product empties components in a bill of material. In certain transactions the system automatically adds empties items to the full product.

See: Inventory Management: Processing Empties

Prerequisites

You can only use these special article categories if you use SAP Retail.