SAP ABAP IMG Activity SIMG_CFMENUOLSDLWM7 (Define Print Control)
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IMG Activity
ID SIMG_CFMENUOLSDLWM7 Define Print Control  
Transaction Code S_ALR_87006686   IMG Activity: SIMG_CFMENUOLSDLWM7 
Created on 19981222    
Customizing Attributes SIMG_CFMENUOLSDLWM7   Define print control 
Customizing Activity SIMG_CFMENUOLSDLWM7   Define print control 
Document
Document Class SIMG   Hypertext: Object Class - Class to which a document belongs.
Document Name SIMG_CFMENUOLSDLWM7    

In this IMG activity you configure print control.

Print control helps you to define the following:

  • Which slips are to be printed for the movements (that is, for the transfer orders) within the Warehouse Management System
  • How these slips are to be printed (that is, which forms are to be used, how many copies are to be printed)
  • On which printer a slip is to be printed automatically

Print control enables you to flexibly manage the print operations in your warehouse. This flexibility involves a certain degree of complexity with regard to the parametrization. For this reason, you are advised to examine print control as a whole beforehand and then analyze the "printing situation" in your warehouse.

You need to configure the following settings:

  • Spool code

    The printout of slips in the SAP system always involves the spool system. Each time you print, you need to provide the spool system with certain data, such as:

    • Number of copies to be printed
    • Dataset name of the printout in the spool system
    • "Immediate print"
    • "Delete after print"

      You use the spool code to define the combinations of the individual parameters that you wish to use.
      In the subsequent settings (for example, configuration of the print code), you no longer have to enter these parameters individually each time. You merely need to enter the spool code as an abbreviation.

  • Print indicator

    The print indicator defines the following information for printing transfer orders:

    • Form that is used for the printout
    • Sort sequence (via sort pool) in which the individual items of a transfer order are to be printed
    • Spool code (see above)

      In the following, you will see that you can assign a print indicator to each movement type of the Warehouse Management system. A transfer order is always assigned to a movement type. The print indicator determines in this way the general print parameters for the transfer order.

  • Assignment printer - movement

    You can assign various printers and spool codes on the basis of the movement (source storage type - destination storage type). Furthermore, you can also choose to suppress printing of the transfer order.

    There are now parameters (print indicator, form) that you can define both in the "printer-movement" setting and in the print indicator setting.

    In the automatic determination of the print parameters, the system proceeds as follows:

    If something is to be printed automatically for a transfer order, the system determines the general print parameters using the print indicator assigned to the movement type. It then looks at the movement-specific print parameters. If these parameters contain a parameter (for example, the form) that is set but is also defined in the print indicator, then the movement-specific parameter is used.

  • Assignment printer-storage type

    You can assign a printer to each storage type.

    You may wonder how the system automatically determines a printer, since printers can be defined in both the printer-storage type and the printer-movement settings and a standard printer can be defined in the user master for each user.

    First, the system checks whether a printer is defined in the printer-movement settings. If so, it chooses that printer. If not, the system decides how to proceed by consulting the "DruVonTyp" parameter that is set in the printer-movement settings.

    If that parameter is set, the system checks to see if a printer is defined in the printer-storage type settings and if so, uses that one.

    If, after running through the procedure described above, the computer still cannot determine a printer, it then uses the printer defined in the user master of the current user.

  • Assignment print indicator - movement type

    A print indicator is assigned to each movement type. As mentioned above, the general print information is defined by this assignment.

  • Assignment print program - warehouse number

    You must assign a print program to each warehouse number. The name of the standard program is RLVSDR40.

    SAP recommends that you always use your own print program, since modifications are usually made to the standard print program. For further information, see the program documentation for report RLVSDR10.

  • Print control - collective processing

    A print program is assigned to each warehouse number for printing multiple transfer orders. In addition, you can configure the following settings:

    • Print indicator
    • Printer
    • Time of output

  • Forms are used to format the printout.

SAP Recommendation

  1. Before you begin table maintenance, you should first look at each table individually and see which ones you require.
  2. Then maintain the tables in the sequence given.

Activities

  1. Create the spool indicators for each warehouse number.
  2. Create the dependent printers for label printing.
  3. Define the sort profile for multiple processing.
  4. Create the print codes for each warehouse number.
  5. Assign the printers to the individual movements.
  6. Assign the printers to the picking areas.
  7. Assign the printers to the storage types.
  8. Assign the print codes to the movement types.
  9. Assign the print reports to the warehouse numbers.
  10. Assign the print control to the multiple processing runs.
  11. Using the analysis program, check whether the settings comply with your needs.

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_CFMENUOLSDLWM7 0 HLA0006572 Picking 
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
IMGDUMMY D - Dummy object OMLV 0000001000 Print control 
History
Last changed by/on SAP  19981222 
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