Shipping Material Accounts (whwmd4170m000)

Use this session to view and maintain shipping material accounts (SMAs). A shipping material account is used to group packaging items for the purpose of reporting to business partners.

Field Information

Shipping Material Account

The shipping material account code.

LN generates a new shipping material account (SMA) code from the SMA number group of theses sessions:

  • Warehousing User Profiles (whwmd1140s000)

  • Warehouse Master Data Parameters (whwmd0100s000)

Description

The description or name of the code.

Search Key

The search key of the shipping material account (SMA). The default is the first characters of the description field.

External Business Partner

The business partner who manages, owns, or distributes the packaging items that are related to the shipping material account (SMA).

You can only specify business partners that are present in the Business Partners (tccom4500m000) session and that are not assigned to another shipping material account (SMA).

Type

The type of external business partner.

Allowed values

  • Customer
  • Supplier
  • Not Applicable

Default value

Not Applicable

If you select Customer you can only select business partners of type Customer in the Business Partner field of the Shipping Material Accounting Scheme (whwmd4171m000) session, if you select Supplier, you can only select business partners of type Supplier in the Business Partner field of the Shipping Material Accounting Scheme (whwmd4171m000) session.

If the external business partner is a PSP rather than a customer or a supplier, select Not Applicable. This allows you to specify customers or suppliers for the shipping material accounting scheme.

Text

The text number that connects a text to the shipping material account (SMA).