topic Re: Locking in Inventory in Application Development and Automation Discussions

Locking in Inventory

Former Member — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 08:57:01 GMT

Hi,

for our inventory we will avoid that user can book any material movements.

Which i the best way?

Lock User, transactions or movement types.

Thanks for help

Regards, Dieter

Re: Locking in Inventory

Jelena_Perfiljeva — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 19:52:23 GMT

Could you please clarify what exactly are you trying to do? By "user" do you mean just one particular user or any users?

Actually to prevent any goods movements during the physical inventory the proper way would be to create Physical Inventory documents (MI01 / MI31) with the "posting block". There is also a transaction MI32 "Block Material" but I've never used it.

If it is just one particular user than it could be locked out of the system altogether or the authorization settings could be changed to disallow goods movements. "Transaction lock" is not a very good idea since you never know all the transactions where the goods movement may come from. E.g. in VL02N "Post goods issue" creates a GM document.

This looks more like a Basis/Security or IM question than ABAP. You might want to post it in another forum.

Re: Locking in Inventory

Former Member — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 20:08:41 GMT

If some users can do movements and some cannot, then control it at movement type level. If you don't want any manual movements, then control it at transaction level.