Shipping Material AccountsThe topic describes the packaging item registration functionality. Shipping Material Accounts Shipping Material Accounts are used to communicate with a business partner about quantities of packaging items and payments of packaging items. The shipping material account is used to group packaging items for the purpose of reporting to business partners. For details, refer to the online Help of Shipping Material Accounts (whwmd4170m000) session. Note LN records the packaging item transactions only when the :
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 :
In the steps above, LN searches for an entry in the shipping material account that has an effective date which is most close to the transaction date. Expiry date 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. Packaging Item Registration LN record the received and issued quantities of packaging items by date. LN updates the session during the receipt and shipping process for transactions that have a packaging item. Packaging item can be linked to a handling unit, receipt line, shipment or container. The Packaging Item Transactions (whinr1115m000) session is updated even if no shipping material account is used for packaging items. You can also enter the packaging item transactions manually. Important!
For sales orders of type transfer, an exception is made to support a VMI scenario where goods flow through a VMI warehouse. The transfer sales orders are used for VMI scenario that deliver the goods from own warehouse to a VMI warehouse and after that the issue to the customer is carried out. The business partner is determined at the original sales order. You can select the stage in the supply process at which the packaging item related transactions are updated by LN in the Update Shipping Material Account during field of Warehouses (whwmd2500m000) session (in case of a logistical service provider (LSP) scenario). The field is enabled only for VMI warehouses in which warehouse management is not carried out by own company.The packaging item related transactions can be updated by LN at the following points in supply process:
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Shipping Material Accounting Scheme LN link business partners and packaging items combinations to shipping material account (SMA). The business partner and item combination identify the shipping material account for a packaging item transaction. The Shipping Material Accounting Scheme (whwmd4171m000) session is used to find the correct shipping material account for a packaging item transactions. The business partner and item link to shipping material account is based on effective dates. You can also specify a future effective date to make a new set of shipping material accounts available for the future. If you do not specify an item, it indicates that an SMA is linked to a BP for all items. If you do not specify a SMA , it indicates that an item is not accountable. The following are the important characteristics of the shipping material accounting scheme :
When linking accounts to transactions, LN first tries to retrieve an account at the business partner/item combination level. If business partner/item combination account is not found, LN falls back to the more general business partner level and tries to find an account to link to the transaction. In case shipping material accounting schemes are defined at business partner level, all items for a (group of) business partner(s) are linked to one account. Following options are available in case you want to exclude specific packaging items from detailed transaction logging :
When searching for a shipping material account (SMA) for a transaction, LN searches for an entry in the shipping material accounting scheme that has an effective date which is most close to the transaction date. Expiry dates are not defined. The expiry date of an existing entry in the shipping material accounting scheme is determined by the effective date of a new entry in the accounting scheme. Multiple business partners can be linked to the same shipping material accounting scheme. The following are the possible scenarios : Scenario 1 : All packaging items linked to one SMA. This scenario can be achieved by defining an entry in the accounting scheme in which :
Scenario 2 : All possible packaging items are linked to one SMA , with the possibility to exclude specific items for accounting. You can achieve this scenario by defining an entry in the accounting scheme in which you specify the business partner and but do not specify the item. In addition to this, the user must defined an entry in the accounting scheme in which both the business partner and item are specified but the shipping material account is not specified.
Scenario 3 : Linking a specified subset of the packaging items to a SMA. Only the selected items are linked to the SMA. You can achieve this scenario by defining a set of entries in the accounting scheme in which both the business partner and item are specified, one entry for every single item.
Scenario 4 : The majority of packaging items must be linked to one account, a small subset of the packaging items must be linked to a different account. You can achieve this scenario by setting up two accounts. In the accounting scheme one entry is created in which the business partner is specified but the item is not specified. Other entries are created having both the item and business partner filled.
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