Inventory During Opening Hours (PIPE)
Use
You can use this
function to request POS transactions from the POS Inbound Processing Engine
(PIPE) during physical inventory during opening hours. For more information
about PIPE, see also
POS
Interface.
Prerequisites
If you implement the PIPE and want to execute an inventory during opening hours, then you must have made the following settings in Customizing:
● In Customizing for the Inventory, you have chosen the option Request POS Transactions From PIPE under Enhancement: Control of Store Physical Inventory for the Control of POS Data Determination setting.
● You have defined the RFC destination under PIPE-Specific Communication Settings.
● You have activated the Send Confirmation setting under Control of Aggregated Sales in the POS inbound profile of your store.
●
You have made the
following settings in PIPE Customizing. For more information, see
Preparation of POS
Transactions for Online Stock Queries.
Features
Determination of the POS transactions (sales or returns)
If you implement PIPE, then the system first transfers the POS transaction data to the PIPE, where it is aggregated and then transferred to the SAP ERP system. This has the advantage that is reduces significantly the data volume that is transferred to the SAP ERP system. In the case of a physical inventory during opening hours, the SAP ERP system requests transaction data from PIPE to enable calculation of the book inventory at count time.
During determination of POS transactions for physical inventory of an article, the system also includes the POS transactions of the single articles of this value-only article. Additionally, an inventory for an article that is a component in a sales set also includes the POS transactions of the sales set (provided that closure is executed for the sales set in a logistical run).
If you use the database tables WSTI_MKPF_INDEX, WSTI_ART_REL and WSTI_POS_EVENT, you must reorganize them regularly using the program R_SRS_PI_DELETE_POS_EVENTS.
Check of Unposted, Relevant POS Transactions in PIPE
When requesting the POS transactions from PIPE, the system checks whether additional POS transactions exist in PIPE that are relevant for the book inventory of the article but have not been posted to the SAP ERP system yet. If such POS transactions do exist, the system cancels the calculation of the book inventory for the affected article and issues a corresponding error message. Once the relevant POS transactions have been posted, you can restart the calculation.
The check for unposted POS transactions in PIPE is not complete, as the system only checks if POS transactions exist in the transaction database of PIPE. If there are still POS transactions in the cash system that have not been posted successfully to the transaction database of PIPE, then they are not included in the check.
Customizing: Save Processed POS Transactions