Goods Receipt for Purchase Order
Purpose
The goods receipt takes place with reference to the inbound delivery. The goods receipt offsets the shipping notification and then increases the stock.
Prerequisites
The batch and its characteristics must be available in the receiving profit center.
You must be able to post any differences between the GI and GR quantities.
At physical goods receipt, only a transfer posting takes place from the stock in transit into the unrestricted-use stock (without an accounting document).
Process Flow
Error Handling
The data transfer using an IDoc excludes error handling using known methods from IDoc Basis. This is necessary in case the IDoc cannot be updated. This may be required in the following situations:
- An object to be posted (material, purchase order) is blocked. This situation is not critical, because the IDoc can be updated subsequently.
- An error has occurred during the goods movement, for example, minimum stock levels have been reached or the purchase order cannot be posted. For this reason, you must ensure that any changes to the purchase order (quantity) are also made to the unchecked delivery. The system does not prevent the situation where the purchase order is changed when the IDoc has already been sent. You must postprocess these cases manually. To do this, you need to reverse the goods issue. A new IDoc is created. You should delete this IDoc and the preceding IDoc in the receiving queue.
Batch Information
At the time of posting the goods receipt, all the necessary batch information is present in the system (see also:
Goods Issue for the Delivery).