Shipping Material Accounts (whwmd4170m000)

	Shipping Material Accounts (whwmd4170m000) Use this session to view and maintain shipping material accounts. A shipping material account is used to group packaging items for the purpose of reporting to business partners. Note LN records the packaging item transactions only when the: Extended Packaging Item Registration check box is selected in the Master Data Parameters (whwmd0100s000) session. Accountable check box is selected in the Packaging Items (whwmd4505m000) session. Important! You can copy all items from one business partner to another business partner within the same shipping material account. Search of Shipping Material Accounts (SMA) When LN records a shipping material transaction, LN searches for a shipping material account (SMA) to be linked to the transaction in the following hierarchy: LN searches for an SMA that has a combination of business partner, packaging item, and transaction date of the transaction. Step 1 can result in an empty SMA. This means that the item is excluded from accounting for the specific business partner. If an SMA is found in step 1, then the search action stops else step 2 is executed. LN searches for an SMA that has a combination of business partner and transaction date of the transaction. In the above steps , LN searches for an entry in the shipping material account that has an effective date which is the closest to the transaction date. Expiry dates for the shipping material account are not defined. The expiry date of an existing entry in the shipping material account is determined by the effective date of a new entry in the accounting scheme. Related topics Vendor managed inventory Overview of VMI business scenarios Logistic service providers (LSP) - packaging item registration Shipping Material Account The shipping material account code. LN generates a new SMA code from the: SMA number group of the User Profiles (whwmd1140s000) session. SMA number group of the Master Data Parameters (whwmd0100s000) session. Description The description or name of the code. Search Key The search key of the SMA. The default is the first characters of the description field. Text The text number that connects a text to the SMA. Print Shipping Material Accounts Prints the shipping material accounts.