Physical Inventory in WM

Hi,
I got some questions related to physical inventory.
Our customer wants a physical inventory based on the material (both for IM and WM). In WM "next empty bin" for putaway and "FIFO" for picking are used.
During the physical inventory process the following should be possible:
1) Per day a certain amount of materials should be inventoried (depending on the time the warehouse worker has time for that). That means in case of WM it should be possible to enter the quantity of materials to be inventoried and the inventory document then contains all the bins where the material is.
2) A report that shows which materials are already inventoried and which are not inventoried so far.
The only possible physical inventory method in SAP for 1) could be cycle counting as this provides the information in MARC when the last inventory was done. For all other methods (annual, continous) this information is stored in the bin only. But I could not find anything to enter the amount of materials I want to inventory. If I use cycle counting I would get all materials the first time running LX26. Sure I can select 50 bins per document and only activate some of the documents but then it could happen that the same material is in more than one document.
2) No standard report available.
Is there a way to do that in standard SAP? In case it involves changes where do you see them?
Cheers
Mathias

Hello Mathias,
<b>1) Per day a certain amount of materials should be inventoried (depending on the time the warehouse worker has time for that). That means in case of WM it should be possible to enter the quantity of materials to be inventoried and the inventory document then contains all the bins where the material is.</b>
I suggest you to use Quant based cycle count inventory (Transaction code LICC), with this transaction you will be able to give your material input and you can also select the quant for which you want to carry out the inventory, it will not block entire bin
For more informaiton <a href="http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005vp/helpdata/en/7b/bb0bc8b3c911d3b2ad0050045571f7/frameset.htm">Cycle count for Quant</a>
2) A report that shows which materials are already inventoried and which are not inventoried so far.
If you are using the inventory other than cycle count in that case, it will update the inventory details at bin level, but if you use Quant Cycle count inventory it will update Quant data as well so you can generate report from LQUA table or use the standard report LI15 transaction code
<b>The only possible physical inventory method in SAP for 1) could be cycle counting as this provides the information in MARC when the last inventory was done. For all other methods (annual, continous) this information is stored in the bin only. But I could not find anything to enter the amount of materials I want to inventory. If I use cycle counting I would get all materials the first time running LX26. Sure I can select 50 bins per document and only activate some of the documents but then it could happen that the same material is in more than one document.</b>
to resolve this use LICC instead of LX26
2) No standard report available.
There are couple of reports available which are more business user friendly with detailed invormations.
Go to SAP Menu --> Logistics --> Logistics Execution -> Information system --> Warehouse --> Phy Inv --> with bin inventory
Hope this helps.
Regards
Arif Mansuri

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