Technical Details
- Applicable Products
- SAP Business Network for Supply Chain
- User Type
- Buyer
- Supplier
- Enablement Model
- Automatically on
Description
This feature supports decimal points for packed and shipped quantity for handling unit packaging.
Customer Benefits
Consistent handling of quantities through the shipping process including handling unit packaging. This is important to customers in many scenarios, such as when ordering liquid bulk. Especially when the conversion between different units of measure taking place.
Also, for materials with a base unit of measure that is a weight unit, the capacity for a given handling unit might indeed be a decimal. For example, one carton can contain 1.25kg of product.
Prerequisites
The advanced packaging feature must be enabled.
Feature Details
User Interface Changes
This feature supports the following:
- Decimal points up to three decimal places in shipped quantity values in ship-notice advanced packaging, instead of rounding a decimal to the nearest whole number. This makes it possible for shipped quantity values to match the quantity values in the related purchase order that use decimals.
- Decimals at the level of packed material.
- Decimals for Auxiliary materials.
Note
- Decimals are not supported for upper level packaging material, in case of multi level packaging.
- Three decimal places are supported if the supplier adds more than three decimal places at the point of ASN creation. Before they reach the packaging step, rounding to the next higher number for three decimals occurs.
- Assignment fields in default packaging instructions for Excel upload.
The following fields are updated:
- Packed/shipped quantity on Confirm Packaging screen
- Quantity field for capacity in Define Instructions screen
- Adds support for decimal points in the Capacity and Maximum Capacity fields of packaging instructions, in Excel and json API formats.