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How to Understand Physical Inventory in

SAP EWM
October 31, 2008 by Shaun Snapp

Executive Summary
We cover physical inventory in EWM.
Physical inventory in EWM has speci c con guration steps.

Physical Inventory
As with the post on low stock checking.

EWM has the ability to perform physical inventory. The rst step
is navigating to the de ne physical inventory con guration object.

Next, we can decide which categories to display.

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Now we assign the storage bins to the activity areas.

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Here we can see what the bin sorting looks like.

Now we will assign physical inventory areas to activity areas.

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It is necessary to de ne what the tolerance groups are for the posting

di erences. This way the system can be told how much is essentially
“too much” in terms of variance. This concept of tolerance also comes
up in Event Management.

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Now we can check the physical stock at the storage bin.

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Next, we can create the physical inventory document.

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After a ag is set, its time to con gure the which storage bins to
display. We will pick our storage bin. We will look at this storage in the
next part of the exercise.

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We will test the system by entering a negative quantity. See we have

selected the storage bin that we previously set to display.

Notice how once we have a negative value we get this error. This, of
course, tells us what the problem is and is a way for EWM to monitor

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the stock 0n hand.

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