For each purchase order item, Purchasing specifies a delivery date. The system may check during the GR posting whether the goods are delivered too early or late.
To check whether the delivery is made before the planned delivery date, you must set message number 254 (work area M7) as the warning or error message in Customizing.
Define the attributes of system messages in Customizing for Materials Management under Inventory Management and Physical Inventory→Define Attributes of System Messages (OMCQ).
If the GR date lies before the planned delivery date in the PO, the system then issues the message Earliest delivery date is ... according to your settings.
Hint
If you have defined message M7 254 as a warning message, the message due to early delivery is only displayed in the Post Goods Movement app (or MIGO transaction), not in the Post Goods Receipt for Purchasing Document app. However, this is only the case if the Check function is called up in the Post Goods Movement app before the posting.
If you have set the message 254 as an error message, you can still post prematurely delivered goods to non-valuated or valuated GR blocked stock. If the delivery date is achieved, you can release the GR blocked stock. The check for premature delivery may be useful if your storage capacity is limited.
Check for Late Delivery
Hint
If you have defined message M7 163 as a warning message, the message due to late delivery is only displayed in the Post Goods Movement app (or MIGO transaction), not in the Post Goods Receipt for Purchasing Document app. However, this is only the case if the Check function is called up in the Post Goods Movement app before the posting.
