SAP ABAP IMG Activity SIMG_CFMENUOLMLOMLX (Confirmation)
Hierarchy
☛ BBPCRM (Software Component) BBPCRM
   ⤷ CRM (Application Component) Customer Relationship Management
     ⤷ CRM_APPLICATION (Package) All CRM Components Without Special Structure Packages
       ⤷ LVS (Package) Application development Warehouse Management (WM)
IMG Activity
ID SIMG_CFMENUOLMLOMLX Confirmation  
Transaction Code S_ALR_87002532   IMG Activity: SIMG_CFMENUOLMLOMLX 
Created on 19981222    
Customizing Attributes SIMG_CFMENUOLMLOMLX   Confirmation 
Customizing Activity SIMG_CFMENUOLMLOMLX   Confirmation 
Document
Document Class SIMG   Hypertext: Object Class - Class to which a document belongs.
Document Name SIMG_CFMENUOLMLOMLX    

In this section, you configure the system settings for handling differences and for confirming transfer orders .

Handling Differences

The system posts differences that you find in the warehouse into a specific difference storage type (for example, 999) whenever you

  • Confirm a transfer order with differences.
  • Perform a manual stock transfer to the difference storage type (for example, 999).
  • Perform automatic stock transfer to the difference storage type (for example, 999) after a inventory with quantity differences.

In the WM system, you can classify differences according to cause (for example, breakage, theft).

Using the difference indicator, you determine the storage type and the storage bin to which the differences are posted.

For each difference indicator, you can save the percentage value for the deviation allowed, that is, starting from which the dialog box is to appear. Suppressing the dialog box is appropriate for stock picks that cannot be done to the exact amount and where the difference is cleared against the stock in the source bin.

Example

A warehouse worker guesses a 3 kilogram pick for a particular material and determines the actual weight further away from the bin. In this case, each pick is confirmed with a difference. It would be appropriate to have the dialog box suppressed so as to save this extra step.

Confirmation Control

One important aspect of confirmation of transfer orders is the setting of the confirmation requirement. This requirement means additional work for the user, but it also affords a high level of stock and information security.

The decision as to whether a transfer order item requires confirmation and whether it is confirmed immediately depends on the parameters you set for your movement types and your storage types.

  • At the warehouse number level you define:
    • whether there is to be separate confirmation of pick and transfer
  • At the storage type level you define:
    • whether putaways to this storage type require confirmation
    • whether picks from this storage type require confirmation
    • whether a zero stock check is to take place for a bin that becomes empty through the pick
    • whether the destination storage bin can be changed during confirmation
  • At the movement type level you define:
    • whether transfer orders with this movement type can be confirmed immediately
    • whether the confirmation requirement is to be proposed during transfer order generation
    • whether single-step confirmation is to be applied although two-step confirmation is set for the source and destination storage types
    • through which screen the transfer orders are to be cofirmed.

Confirmation Requirement

As soon as one of the above parameters calls for a confirmation requirement for a transfer order item, the item must be confirmed.

Immediate confirmation of a transfer order item only works out if

  • the respective movement type does not disallow this
  • if the storage type from which the materials are picked is not subject to pick confirmation
  • if the storage type into which the materials are put away does not have a putaway confirmation requirement.

Two-Step Confirmation

For two-step confirmation, both storage types involved in the transfer order must be subject to confirmation.

At the warehouse number level, you define whether transfer orders or TO items are to be confirmed in two separate steps.

During the confirmation of the first step, you confirm the pick process from the source storage bin. The source storage bin and the quant are automatically updated. In the quant of the destination storage bin, only the open transfer quantity is updated at this point.

During the confirmation of the second step, you confirm both the transfer process and also the receipt of the material at the destination storage bin. Here the source storage bin and its quant are no longer updated, but only the destination storage bin and the quant stored there.

SAP Recommendation

SAP recommends working with the stock placement and stock removal confirmation functions. The confirmation procedure is recommended for the following reasons:

  • Stock in a storage bin should only be available after the actual putaway has been confirmed.
  • Storage bins should only be released for further putaways after the goods putaway in the destination bin has been confirmed.
  • A storage bin that is going to be emptied by a pending stock pick should already be filled with a putaway before it is really emptied.
  • The posting of differences should be executed during the actual confirmation, and not by means of a separate transfer order.

Include the confirmation process in your organizational procedures.

You can use the bar code for confirming transfer orders. This makes your work much easier.

Activities

  1. Decide whether you want to confirm the transfer orders created in the SAP system using the confirmation procedure.
  2. Maintain the difference indicator for differences in TO confirmation.
  3. Maintain the indicator "Confirmation control/Warehouse number".
  4. Maintain the indicator "Confirmation control/Storage type".
  5. Maintain the indicator "Confirmation control/Movement type".

Business Attributes
ASAP Roadmap ID 204   Establish Functions and Processes 
Mandatory / Optional 1   Mandatory activity 
Critical / Non-Critical 2   Non-critical 
Country-Dependency A   Valid for all countries 
Assigned Application Components
Documentation Object Class Documentation Object Name Current line number Application Component Application Component Name
SIMG SIMG_CFMENUOLMLOMLX 0 HLA0006620 Stock movements 
Maintenance Objects
Maintenance object type C   Customizing Object 
Assigned objects
Customizing Object Object Type Transaction Code Sub-object Do not Summarize Skip Subset Dialog Box Description for multiple selections
V_T331_B V - View OMLX 9999999999 C MM-WM Confirmation 
V_T333_B V - View OMLX 9999999999 C MM-WM Confirmation 
V_T336 V - View OMLX 0000000001 C MM-WM Confirmation 
History
Last changed by/on SAP  20000126 
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