Specification of the Permitted Packaging Materials 

Purpose

You use this process to define which packaging materials are permitted for packing a product or – and this is relevant for multilevel packing – a packaging material. This ensures that you or your supplier use the correct packaging materials in manual packing or when creating a packaging specification. Therefore, this process allows you to prevent incorrect packing.

Process

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       1.      You define the following keys in Customizing for SCM Basis, under Pack ® Handling Units:

○       Packaging material types

A packaging material type is a key that you use to group packaging materials that can be used alternatively.

○       Packing groups

In a packing group, you group the packaging material types that you permit for packing a product in a packaging material or for packing a packaging material into a larger packaging material.

       2.      You enter the packaging material type in the product masters of the packaging material and – if you want to pack the packaging materials into larger packaging materials in multilevel packing – the packing group.

       3.      To specify the packaging material types that are permitted for packing a product, you enter the packing group in the location product master of the product.