EWM with SAP Retail Vendor Consignment Stock Transfer Order

[julia_lin]

Hi, We are now impletementing SAP retail and EWM.

In SAP, we have Distribution center and stores. (Distribution center and Stores are all plants under the same company code)

In EWM, we only link our warehouse to SAP Distribution center, not to the stores.

The business scenario is to procure and manage the materials as vendor consignment stock. One material will have only one source of supply.

We'll create vendor consignment PO in Distribution center, create stock transfer order to transfer the vendor consignment stock from Distribution center to stores, and also the store return STO to distribution center, return PO to vendor. All the inventoris in these scenarios are vendor consignment stock.

SAP Retail works fine with these scenarios. But with EWM, we met issues in stock transfer order scenario.

In stock transfer order scenario, the PGI of SAP Distribution Center outbound delivery is triggered via EWM. We got the post successfully with movement type "641" and special stock indicator "K" to issue vendor consignment stock to stock in transit. This is what we expected.

But there is an extra material document also posted with movement type "411" and special stock indicator "K" to transfer the vendor consignment stock to own stock. => This is unreasonable....

Another issue is about stock transfer order with return indicator. In EWM, the system could not determine the return delivery is going to poted to vendor consignment stock. The owner of the stock become own stock instead of vendor consignment after we post the GR and putaway into our distribution center in EWM. The EWM stock became own stock, and the post goods issue is not able to update to SAP Retail. There is an error in SAP qRFC Monitor Inbound Queue.

I'd like to know if anyone have been work with similar scenario and can give me some advise.

Thanks and best regards,

Julia Lin

[Former Member]

Hello Julia,

I just noticed your post thanks to the reply by Kyle.

In our company we have the same scenario, that is, SAP ECC for Retail integrated to EWM, and we manage vendor consignment stock as per the Retail functionality. We've struggled a lot with vendor consignment but we're managing pretty well nowadays.

If you still need any help on this topic, including how and when to post 641/K vs. 411/K let me know.

Best regards.

[Former Member]

Hi Daniel,

I still have the issue and just want to know if you were able to PGI from consignment stock in WM(full) to a store maintaining the consignment status allowing a 101 K at store.

We are using SAP retail and when using lean WM we are able to do the delivery/PGI as Julia said and receive as consignment stock, but not with full WM.

Regards,

Kyle

[Former Member]

Hello Kyle,

We are not running on LE-WM, we are running on EWM; nevertheless, I am pretty sure that the goods issue posting should work exactly the same as long as you are posting with reference to outbound deliveries.

The overall assumption is that for non-Retail processes, vendor consignment stock should trigger an accounts payable relevant posting (GR/IV account) when the stock is transferred from the source plant to any other plant, whereas for Retail processes common business practice is to transfer stock from plant to plant keeping the vendor consignment status.

This scenario is supported by the Retail Consignment Processing functionality, which can be found under IMG> Logistics - General. You also need to set up Stock determination rules and strategies so that consignment stock is determined when posting goods issue with reference to the delivery item type you are using.

Once customizing is in place, it is necessary for you to update the article master field Consignment control (MARC-CONS_PROCG), as well as the relevant Stock determination group (MARC-EPRIO). This values are copied during creation to the stock transfer order , outbound delivery and inbound delivery documents.

It is very important to keep the article master fields correctly updated for the process to generate the 641/K and a 101/K movement. If there are any inconsistencies in the values, you may end up with a 411/K-411 (posting to the GR/IR account) and a 101 movement which will post own stock to the receiving plant.

Hope this helps.

Consignment Processing in SAP Retail - Vendor Consignment - SAP Library

Goods Issues for Stock Transfers - Vendor Consignment - SAP Library

[Former Member]

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for the info, I have already made these settings. Not sure where it is going wrong.

for some reason the 641 is being triggered and not the 641/K and thus creating the 411/K.

I have maintained consignment control in the article master and but still no luck.

Thanks

Kyle

Got it working now, the problem was with the IM/WM movement types.

[davidmperez]

Hello dtapian ,

I am very interested in this sceneraio. Could you please explain in further detail how to fix the issues?

Thank you very much,

[JuergenPitz]

Hi,

not really a Retail specialist and I do not work much with consignment stock. But:

"But there is an extra material document also posted with movement type "411" and special stock indicator "K" to transfer the vendor consignment stock to own stock. => This is unreasonable...."

Why is that unreasonable? When do you expect to post the stock from consigment into own stock? When selling it?

Brgds

Juergen

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[julia_lin]

Hi Juergen,

Thanks for your reply.

In SAP Retail, it allows stock transfer of consignment stock between sites. We don't need to tranfer the consignment stock to own stock before transfer.

And the 2 material documents we got in SAP after PGI in EWM are.

411/K from Consignment to Own.

641/K from Consignment to Stock in transit.

Both of them are from Consignment stock, not from consignment to own, then goods issue from own stock. What we really need is the 641/K only.

Thanks

Julia Lin

[JuergenPitz]

Hi,

now I would understand that the stock is still consignment stock when moving it from one distribution center to another, but I wonder if this is still supposed to be when sending it to a store. But that might be another issue.

You wrote "But there is an extra material document also posted with movement type "411" and special stock indicator "K" to transfer the vendor consignment stock to own stock." Can you see from where this is triggered? Because EWM of course should only post the GI, and you wrote this is ok.

Do you use the "standard" stock transfer settings in a retail system? So is there a "one-step" posting active for this stock transfer?

Brgds

Juergen

[julia_lin]

Hi,

Based on the reference field in SAP material document header, the 411/K was triggered by the EWM goods issue document.

In my test log :

After EWM PGI, there is a Warehouse material document : 200000852 posted in EWM.

And in SAP, the material document header, I can see those 2 documents with the same entry date/time (the 641/K only one second later then the 411/K), and in 411/K material document header, I can see the reference field with value "D101000200000852", which is the warehouse number + the EWM material document number.

And for the SAP stock transfer setting (the retail system), since our DC & stores are under the same legal, after DC PGI, the inventory will be in-transit in store plant level before GR by store, not necessarily to be one-step.

Best regards,

Julia Lin

[Former Member]

Hi Julia,

Did you manage to sort out your issue with regards to the 641K automatically creating 411 movement?

Reagrds,

Kyle