MM and FI Interface in Goods Receipt Posting

[Test318]

Dear community, 

in the past we had SAP WM active in our Warehouses without HU Management. In this scenario we are posting our goods receipts for one Delivery Note. With this we have a 1 to 1 assignment between Goods receipt posting / material document , delivery note and invoice quantity.

We started now with an EWM roll-out in all our warehouses. Here we have now the scenario, that we are posting the Goods receipt in EWM for each Top Handling Unit. That means we got several goods receipt postings / material documents for every delivery note and invoice quantity. This sceanrio leads to an addtional effort in finance department. It is now much more complex to check goods receipt postings with the delivery note quantity and invoice quantity. Also the Goods Receipt Account Transparency is much more complex. As a last point we also have the issue, that in second scenario we cannot use our automatic Invoicing process, because here the system is checking the quantity on the delivery note / Invoice and goods receipt posting quantity.

Is this the SAP standard behaviuor? Or is there any improvement option. E.g. to merge somehow the Goods Receipt Postings in MM-FI Interface.

Thank you in advance for any hint.

Regards Elias

[Dominik_Tylczynski]

Hello @Test318 

You can't consolidate several goods receipt, i.e. MM material documents into a single FI document. To my knowledge SAP doesn't provide such a functionality. Moreover, even if it had provided one, it would still not solve your issue - you would still have multiple GR material documents and they will show during invoice verification.

The root cause is how EWM reports goods receipts to ERP - by default it reports partial goods receipt for each HU. That has the advantage that ERP stock levels are updated in almost real time, in sync with the physical warehouse process. On the other hand that puts stress on system performance as more messages are sent from EWM to ERP and causes issues in GR-based logistics invoice verification. 

Fortunately, goods receipt mode can be customized in EWM with process profile:

Process profiles are set up in the IMG path: SCM Extended Warehouse Management -> Extended Warehouse Management -> Cross-Process Settings -> Delivery - Warehouse Request -> Process Management and Control -> Define Process Profile for Document Header

Then the profile is assigned to inbound delivery type in the IMG path: SCM Extended Warehouse Management -> Extended Warehouse Management -> Goods Receipt Process -> Inbound Delivery -> Define Document Types for Inbound Delivery Process

Best regards

Dominik Tylczynski

[Test318]

Hello Dominik,

your solution gives us now an option to solve our issue with the higher complexity in MM-FI Interface.

Now we can investigate further what that change means in our GR process.

Thank you and Regards

Elias