Adjusting Settings for Goods Movements

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to adjust settings for goods movements

Settings for MIGO Transactions

You can adjust the field selection for the entry and posting of goods movements in accordance with the specific requirements of your company.

Note

The MB*-transactions for goods movements are no longer supported in SAP S/4HANA (see SAP Note 2210569 for more details).

Field Selection for MIGO

The image outlines field selection settings for MIGO and movement types, with configurations for input, required entry, and optional entry fields, alongside visibility options.

In this Customizing activity, you set the field selection for all MIGO transactions. These settings apply to all movement types and transactions. Use them to hide the fields or buttons that you do not require, or to set the Delivery Note and Bill of Lading fields as required entry fields, if you are working with evaluated receipt settlement.

For transaction MIGO, you can determine the following fields:

The field selection of the header fields – field name GOHEAD-...
The field selection of the item fields – field name GOITEM-...
The field selection for fields that are used to search for documents – field name GOSEARCH-...
The showing and hiding of buttons — field name OK...

The system evaluates the required entry field characteristic only for fields with the name GOHEAD-... (header fields) and GOITEM-... (item fields).

The system does not support the indicator highlighted. For mandatory fields, the descriptions change to blue color.

You will not find some fields (for example,Reason for goods movement in the Field Selection for MIGO activity). You maintain these fields and their attributes through the Field Selection per Movement Type activity.

In this table, you can see all the fields that are included for a particular movement type as optional or required entry fields. If you want to suppress (hide) a field, delete the relevant entry from the table. You can also show other fields (for example, number of GR slips). Based on the movement type, the system offers the permitted fields.

If you want to enter the reasons for certain goods movements, you must maintain the input values for the Reason for Movement field for these movement types.

Settings for Transactions and Reference Documents

Settings for Movement Types

Settings for Movement Types (1)

Level	Dependent on	Settings for
Movement type	Movement type	Entry control (check print/batch indicators, min. shelf-life exp. date) Update control (SLoc automatic, consumption, statistics, phys. inv.)
Short texts	Movement type Special stock indicator Movement indicator Receipt indicator Consumption indicator Language	Movement type text (description of movement)
Allowed transactions	Movement type	When may movement type be used? (Suggest movement type despite different KZBEW?)
Help texts	Movement type Special stock indicator Transaction Language	Extended text (text describing the individual movement)
Field selection/batch search	Movement type Special stock indicator	Field selection control, batch search schema (schema for batch determination)

The movement type is a central control parameter for posting goods movements.

When you want to create a new movement type, you have to reference one of the standard movement types. The system proposes its control indicators for the new movement type.

If you set new movement types, you must think about creating and assigning new reversal movement types for them. This is particularly important when you update data to separate accounts in FI.

You can create the settings for a new movement type through different steps of the dialog structure (that is, in different views). You determine the parameters of the individual views dependent on different keys. You can call the Change, Copy Movement Types Customizing activity to create new movement types and also to maintain the control parameters for the existing movement types.

The work area you specify after calling this transaction must contain all the movement types you want to create or maintain in this transaction call.

Configuration of Movement Types

Movement Types

Settings for Movement Types (2)

Level	Dependent on	Settings for
Update control, WMS movement types	Movement type and indicator for value/quantity update, special stock, movement, receipt, and consumption	Entry control (availability check, missing part processing) Update control (LIFO/FIFO, WMS, QM, value/quantity string)
Account grouping code	Movement type and indicator for special stock, value/quantity updates, movement, and consumption	Account grouping code, indicator for "Check account assgt."
Reversal/follow-on movement types	Movement type, function code	Reversal movement type, indicator for "Type of posting"
Reason for movement	Movement type, key for reason	Description of reason
Deactivate QM inspection processing	Movement type and indicator for special stock, movement, receipt, and consumption	Movement type for QM inspection processing not active
Statistics group LIS	Movement type and indicator for special stock and movement	Update control (LIS)

On the detail screen for update control, you can determine the value and quantity strings for a movement type (dependent on other indicators).

The value string controls the G/L account determination for the accounting documents for this movement type. The quantity string controls the updating of the material master record fields and, possibly, of other fields.

Update Control

Update Control – Details

Plant Parameters

With the Plant Parameters Customizing activity, you make central specifications for various indicators, all of which are plant-dependent, for the transactions in Inventory Management in one overview.

Plant parameters include settings for goods movements, physical inventory, reservations and negative stocks. If a parameter requires dependent entries, you must maintain them in the specific Customizing activity.

Settings for Goods Movements

Create storage location data for materials automatically
Propose "delivery completed" indicator
Activate missing part check at time of goods receipt
Activate/deactivate batch where-used list
Check minimum shelf life

Settings for Negative Stocks

Allow negative stocks for individual stock types (such as vendor consignment and customer consignment)

Further settings are necessary for negative stocks. You can use negative stocks only if permitted for the plant, the valuation area, and the storage location in which you want to allow the negative stock. You also need to set a corresponding indicator in the respective material master record.

Settings for Physical Inventory

Default value for stock type
Indicator for proposal of alternative unit of measure
Indicator for batch determination in background
Indicator for generation of change documents when changing count results
Indicator for adjusting book inventory
Default value for reason for inventory difference

The default values for physical inventory are used when you create physical inventory documents.

Settings for Reservations

Propose "movement allowed" indicator
Day specification for setting "movement allowed" indicator
Retention period for reservation items

Adjust Settings for Goods Movements

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