Inbound delivery

[Former Member]

Hi All,

I have checked the forum but not able to get the req answer.

Why do we create an inbound delivary against schedule agreement and then MIGO.

What is the importance of inbound delivery?

What if we do GR without creating an Inbound delivery?

Thanks

[srinivas_k23 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

The purpose of inbound delivery is nothing but a kind of shipping notification which gives on so this perticular date goods going to be delivered multiple time against scheduling aggrements, this is required to be send by the vendor before sending the goods to the company. That can be possible through a key called " Confirmation control". If this is set in the vendor master record. Than that vendor has to send a shipping notification an acknowledgement prior to goods delivered to company.

Once after receiving the shipping notification the company warehouse people can enter the Inbound delivery agains the PO of that vendor. Usually inbound delivery documents are processed through IDoc. Inbound delivery document can be transmitted through IDoc when vendor is using SAP.

More over vendor have facility to send the goods multiple time (i.e., splitting quantities) with multiple inbound deliveries based on their stock capacity/forcasting against the scheduling agreements to the company.

Further, the goods can be received wr.to inbound document.

For normal PO, GR without inbound is suggestable. But where as for the stocks /material ordered through scheduling agreement concenpt, better to have a confirmation control over the vendor through Inbound delivery. So that there is a minimum guarenty that the goods are going to be delivered to at certain intravels or at a given schedules dates as ordered. Further that helps to other departments (especially production planning/manufacturing units) for non stop manufacturing.

Hope this helps,

Regards,

Sapsrin

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thank you for the info.

We have itra company process now.

Say Plant A-sending

plant B- receiving.

Plant A creates sales order,Outbound delivery.

Plant B has a scheduling agreement.

So now before going GR Inbound delivery has done.

How does this inbound delivery effect??

[Petepall · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Typically when working with a inter/intra company process where you are connected in a SAP to SAP way (both plants in the same SAP client) the issuing plant would post the outbound delivery and the receiving plant would post goods receipt against the outbound delivery.

This avoids unnecessary data entry. So the same outbound delivery that is created at the shipping side is used again for posting the GR on the receiving side.

In migo you have the option to post the goods receipt against the outbound delivery.

If you still want to use an inbound delivery then you should create an inbound delivery based on the shipping data. Then when posting the GR for the inbound delivery the outbound delivery is also closed.

PS. When working with STO process when the PGI is done in the shipping plant an additional column will appear in the MD04 screen showing the stock that has been shipped so that you also have this visibility.

Edited by: Peter Pallen on Jun 2, 2011 12:52 PM PS added

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Peter -

One follow up to that process. Is there any standard way to prevent a GR from being done directly against the PO, if an inbound delivery is in place?

We want to require that all GR's be done against the inbound delivery and are looking for a hard error we could enact that would do this.

Thanks,

Tim