Setting up shipping material accounting

To keep track of packaging materials and to communicate with your business partners about payment, you must set up packaging item registration and define shipping material accounts.

Implementing packaging item registration

To implement and to set up packaging material accounts for your business partners, complete these steps:

  1. Select the Extended Packaging Item Registration check box in the Warehouse Master Data Parameters (whwmd0100s000) session.
  2. Define packaging items in the Packaging Items (whwmd4505m000) session.
  3. Select the Accountable check box in the Packaging Items (whwmd4505m000) session. This enables the registration of packaging item transactions in the Packaging Item Transactions (whinr1115m000) session.

  4. Define the time span of the reconciliation period in the Packaging Item Reconciliation Based on field in the Inventory Reporting Parameters (whinr0100s000) session. This is the period within which packaging-item transactions are aggregated to reconcile the packaging item transactions of your own and the external business partner's organization.

Defining shipping material accounts

  1. Define a shipping material account in the Shipping Material Accounts (whwmd4170m000) session by specifying an ID and a description.

    Optionally, specify an external business partner in the External Business Partner field to dedicate the account to a third party, such as a PSP.

  2. Double-click the newly defined account to start the Shipping Material Account (whwmd4670m000) session.

  3. On the Accounting Scheme tab of the Shipping Material Account (whwmd4670m000) session, define a shipping material accounting scheme by specifying one or more business partners and optionally, a packaging item and an effective date.

    For each new packaging item specified on the Accounting Scheme tab, an empty line is created on the Balances tab.

    The business partner and site, item, and effective date combinations of the shipping material accounting scheme serve as criteria to link packaging item transactions to business partners. See Shipping material accounts and accounting schemes.

Note: 

  • You can copy all items from one business partner to another business partner within the same shipping material account.

  • Instead of defining a shipping material accounting scheme in the Shipping Material Account (whwmd4670m000) session, you can define shipping material accounting schemes in the Shipping Material Accounting Scheme (whwmd4171m000) session.

  • Various options are available to exclude specific packaging items from accounting. See Excluding packaging items from accounting.

  • To view and compare the packaging materials records from third parties, BOD publishing must be implemented and LN must be integrated with the external application Automotive Exchange Export Manager (EXM).

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