SMA for PSP-owned packaging materials

If an external business partner such as a PSP owns the packaging materials and you must pay for their use, you can model this in LN by creating a dedicated shipping material account (SMA) for the business partner.

In this account, you can record both the packaging material transactions between your organization and the PSP, and those between your organization and your customers or suppliers.

Also, you can view the PSP's packing materials transaction records and, if required, reconcile them with your own.

You can view and maintain the external business partner's transaction records in the External Packaging Item Transactions (whinr1116m000) session. The external business partner's records are communicated through the external application Automotive Exchange Export Manager (EXM).

Defining an SMA for a dedicated PSP

Define an SMA as described in steps 4, 5, and 6 in Setting up shipping material accounting.

Specify the PSP in the External Business Partner field (step 4 in Setting up shipping material accounting). This is to indicate that the SMA is dedicated to the PSP and facilitates uploading the PSP's packaging item transactions to LN.
On the Accounting Scheme tab, specify the PSP, the other business partners, and the packaging items for whom packaging item transactions must be included in the SMA.

These supplies of packaging materials cannot be recorded as packaging item transactions:

Packaging materials sent to you by the PSP or other external business partner. These materials are to be used in shipments to your customers.
Empty packaging materials sent back by customers.

This is because these empty materials are not based on receipts or shipments defined in Warehousing. Therefore, you must manually enter these transactions in the Packaging Item Transactions (whinr1115m000) session.