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 Creation of Packaging Specifications

Use

You create a packaging specification to map in the system how you should pack a product.

Prerequisites

You have made the following settings in Customizing:

  • Define a Number Range for the Packaging Specification

  • Define General Packing Parameters

  • Define Group for Packaging Specification

SAP also recommends that you make the (optional) settings under Maintain Structure of the Packaging Specification and Determination of Packaging Specifications .

For more information, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for SCM Basis under Start of the navigation path Packing Next navigation step Packaging Specification End of the navigation path .

Features

When you access the Maintain Packaging Specification transaction, the overview screen appears first. This is divided into two parts: the upper screen is used to search for existing packaging specifications. The lower screen is a list in which you create new packaging specifications, and can display or change existing packaging specifications.

From the list, you can go to the create , change , and display functions on the detail screen . This displays the structure of the packaging specification in the left screen area (in other words, the levels, elements, and the contents). The upper right screen area shows the most important header data for the packaging specification. The lower right screen area shows the detail data for the selected subobject of the packaging specification (in other words, for the level, the element, or the contents).

Activities

  1. On the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Start of the navigation path Extended Warehouse Management Next navigation step Master Data Next navigation step Packaging Specification Next navigation step Maintain Packaging Specification End of the navigation path .

  2. The overview screen appears. Here you can access existing packaging specifications using the quick search or the advanced search.

  3. To create a new packaging specification, choose Add New Line (symbol ).

  4. In the PS Group column, select a packaging specification.

  5. Select the packaging specification, then choose Change to access the detail screen.

  6. On the detail screen, you can first edit the header attributes for packaging specification, for example, you can enter a description or define the business key for the packaging specification ( Determination tab page).

  7. You can define the structure of a packaging specification in Customizing (see also the IMG for SCM Basis under Start of the navigation path Packing Next navigation step Packaging Specification Next navigation step Maintain Structure of Packaging Specification Next navigation step Define Level Set End of the navigation path ). If you work without level sets, then you should specify the structure of the specification in the packaging specification. You create levels and contents in the left screen area using the context menu (right mouse button).

  8. When you create a packaging specification that describes the packing for a product, you enter the product in the Contents area.

  9. For a level, you enter a target quantity and, where required, the minimum and layer quantity. Note that these quantities refer to the previous levels. Target quantity 10 for level 2 means, for example, that you should pack level 1 ten times into the main packaging material for level 2. In other words, 10 boxes onto one pallet.

  10. For a level, you can either create the elements manually, or if you are working with a level set then the elements are proposed by the system.

  11. To specify the main packaging material for a level, for example, create an element with HU relevance Main Packaging Material , and enter the packaging material in the relevant field.

  12. The attributes Weight , Volume , and Dimensions (tab page) for the level are automatically determined by the system for the first main packaging material for a level. For this, the system adopts the attributes for tare and maximum weight (and/or volume, and/or capacity) and the dimensions from the product master for the packaging material. Choose HU Check to make the system calculate the attributes Loading and Total Weight (and/or Volume , and/or Capacity ).

  13. When you save, you close a packaging specification in the detail area.

  14. Choose Back (F3) to go back to the overview area.

  15. In the overview area, you can activate one or more packaging specifications. The prerequisite for being able to determine the packaging specification in other processes is activation of the packaging specification (see also: Packaging Specification Determination ). If the packaging specification contains all the data and you can use the packaging specification for the process, then you activate the packaging specification.

  16. The overview area also offers you the functions Copy , New Version , Print Preview , and Delete .