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Function documentationCreation of Inventory, Deletion of Inventory, and Setting of Inventory to Zero

 

To update the inventory data in SAP Supply Network Collaboration (SAP SNC), you use reports in the SAP ERP system at a productive site. You use the SAP ERP reports to send inventory data to SAP SNC (see Transfer of Demands and Stocks to SAP SNC (SMI, RP, DR) and Data Transfer from ERP Systems to SAP SNC for SNI).

If you also test SAP SNC, you can forgo these SAP ERP reports. For test and simulation purposes, you can instead use the following reports in SAP SNC:

  • Report Create and Update Inventory (/SCA/DM_INV_CREATION), with which you can create, display, and update inventory in SAP SNC

  • Report Set Inventory to Zero (/SCA/DM_RESETINV), with which you can set inventory in SAP SNC to zero

  • Report Delete Inventory (/SCA/DM_DELETEINV), with which you can display and delete inventory in SAP SNC

Caution Caution

You cannot use the report Delete Inventory (/SCA/DM_DELETEINV) if you are working as follows:

  • You are creating inventory using the report Create and Update Inventory (/SCA/DM_INV_CREATION).

  • You are transferring inventory data from your ERP system to SAP SNC using messages of the type ProductActivityNotification.

End of the caution.

Features

Selection Criteria: Special Features for the SNI Monitor and the SMI Monitor

You can use selection criteria to restrict the inventory that you want to create, delete, or set to zero. Some of the selection criteria are only relevant for the SMI Monitor or for the SNI Monitor.

The following criteria are only relevant for the SNI monitor:

  • In the Assigned Partner field, you specify the customer to which the inventory is assigned.

  • In the Assigned Location field, you specify the customer location to which the inventory is assigned.

  • In the Data-Providing-Partner field, you specify the business partner that delivers the inventory data for the SNI Monitor (here you use either an SAP ERPreport or enter the data manually).

  • In the Owner field, you specify the owner of the inventory.

The Promotion Name selection criterion is only relevant for the SMI Monitor.

Query Inventory

If you select the Query Inventory radio button, you can use the reports to query the current inventory. SAP SNC then displays the inventory of the location products in accordance with the selection criteria that you have entered. If you select the Query (Batch Aggregation) radio button, the system aggregates all the inventory that differs with regard to the batch number, but for which all other keys are the same.

Update Inventory Data

When you update the inventory, you can select the following in the Inventory Direction field:

  • Movement: Issues

    SAP SNC deducts the quantity that you have entered from the inventory quantity.

  • Movement: Receipts

    SAP SNC adds the quantity that you have entered to the inventory quantity.

  • Inventory: New Inventory

    SAP SNC uses the quantity that you have entered as the new inventory figure regardless of what previously existed as the inventory.

You can use the Inventory Correction checkbox to determine that SAP SNC checks the dates of the inbound XML messages and then calculates the inventory again in sequence based on the data from the last inbound XML message.

Activities

To call the reports for processing in the dialog, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Start of the navigation path Supply Network Collaboration Next navigation step Tools Next navigation step Inventory Next navigation step <Report> End of the navigation path.