Packing instruction and determination by using reference material - Public Cloud WM

[ST24]

Hi,
I am setting up packing instruction using reference material. According to documentation, the you need to :
1. Create reference material (in my example ref-pallet1) (VERP) which is maintained on products (WMTG12) which are packed same way as reference material. On material WMTG12 reference mat.for packing is maintained.

2. Then packing instruction is created for reference materials ref-pallet1. Row is marked with R.

3. Determination is maintained for 0IBD Inbound delivery

If I now test to pack in WM inbound delivery, it does not create HU automatically. 

If I maintain the determination for WMTG12 by using same packing instruction -> then system is able to pack according to instruction. Is this how it is supposed to work? I understood from SAP documentation that the determination would be maintained only for reference material?

[dawid90 · Accepted solution]

Dear @ST24,

Yes in Public Cloud it’s normal that 0IBD packing instruction determination is evaluated on the delivery item product plus supplier/warehouse so a determination record maintained only for your reference material (ref-pallet1) will not be hit for an inbound delivery item whose product is WMTG12.

• In the 3BR (Warehouse Inbound Processing) best-practice script, SAP explicitly notes that for 0IBD determination you can use only: Warehouse Number, Supplier, Material. That means there’s no standard key for reference material for packing in the delivered 0IBD determination in this scope/item
• So the system will only find the packing instruction if you maintain a determination record with Material = WMTG12 (referencing the packing instruction you created on ref-pallet1). That’s exactly what you observed

• The reference material for packing setup is mainly to reuse the same packing instruction master data across many products so you don’t create many packing instructions, but you still need determination records per product if your 0IBD condition access is product-based as in the standard cloud best practice
• Some SAP docs/screens show reference material for packing as a possible field in determination records in general but your specific 0IBD setup in Public Cloud is effectively constrained to the product-based keys

More details below:

https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_S4HANA_CLOUD/d5699934e7004d048c4801b552f3b013/fdae694b57b24c568e284e43...

Summary:

• Keep one packing instruction built on ref-pallet1
• Maintain packing instruction determination for each product like WMTG12, all pointing to that same packing instruction. This is the expected/working approach per the cloud best-practice flow

Best Regards,

Dawid

[ST24 · Accepted solution]

Thanks for you contribution!

[ST24]

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[ST24]

Found the reason. For 0IBD Inbound delivery determination, system only uses MATNR not reference material.