Inventory Management: Processing Empties 

Use

Empties processing allows you to create a link in Inventory Management between a full product and an empty article.

Various functions make it easier for you to manage your stocks of empties and split them up into their individual components.

Prerequisites

·        You can only use empties processing with SAP Retail.

·        Before you can use the empties function, you must activate empties processing by making the required settings in Customizing for Materials Management.

·        If you have assigned empties to the variants of a generic article, you must take the following into account:

Variants to which empties are assigned, must be handled in the supply chain as single articles. They are not allowed to be ordered or taken into stock via the higher-level generic article, as the Goods Receipt component does not support hierarchical sub-items (Generic Articles → Variants → Empties) not supported.

You must also handle variants to which empties are assigned as single articles in the Sales Order component, as this component does not take hierarchical sub-items into account either