How to Understand Physical Inventory in SAP EWM

Executive Summary

• We cover physical inventory in EWM.
• Physical inventory in EWM has specific configuration steps.

Physical Inventory

As with the post on low stock checking. EWM has the ability to perform physical inventory. The first step is navigating to define the physical inventory configuration object. Next, we can decide which categories to display.
Now we assign the storage bins to the activity areas.

Here we can see what the bin sorting looks like.Now, we will assign physical inventory areas to activity areas.

It is necessary to define what the tolerance groups are for the posting differences. This way, the system can be told how much is essentially “too much” in terms of variance. This concept of tolerance also comes up in Event Management.

<br ” />Now we can check the physical stock at the storage bin.

Next, we can create the physical inventory document.

<br ” />After a flag is set, it’s time to configure which storage bins to display. We will pick our storage bin. We will look at this storage in the next part of the exercise.

We will test the system by entering a negative quantity. See, we have selected the storage bin that we previously set to display. Notice how once we have a negative value, we get this error. This, of course, tells us what the problem is and is a way for EWM to monitor the stock 0n hand.