Scanner program for warehouse cycle count inventory

Hello Expert,
We have Handling unit management, Warehouse. We are using standard SAP cycle count procedure to count bins and to carry out physical inventory.
We would like to use scanner/ RF to carry out physical inventory to reduce time and efforts.
Can you please provide me some detail about different programs that are already available for warehouse cycle counts?
I would like to know which program would be ideal for us to use to replace our manual cycle counts.
Please provide all possible detail
Thank you very much for your help.
Regards,
NEal

If you start here:
Mobile Data Entry (LE-MOB) - SAP Library
and go through the inventory counting menu it will explain in great detail the available options.
As per standard LM58 can be used for system guided and LM60 can be used for user initiated counting process.
There is a great deal of information about creating and assigning inventory count documents,counting, recounting and clearing of differences that is easy to find please make some effort to search for such information before posting.

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The calculation of cycle counting period to be two (2) years rather than the one (1) year that standard SAP uses. The cycle count indicators that determine the frequency of the counts for each material need to be used in conjunction with the 2 year cycle. Is standard RMCBIN00 calculate for Two year cycle count??
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You can do cycle counting with Rf transaction LM59 for the serialised material.
1.My experience says when you have HUM activated then to track material HU & serialisation profile works together.
2.You can do cycle counting of serailised & non serialsed material through Rf gun but clearance of this material will be issue. You may have to create one more transaction to clear the difference of serialised materials like LI20
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When doing a cycle count via tx LX26, the following error appears:
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Message no. L4173"
I've read some threads regarding this item, and what I have done is the following:
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IMG > Logistics Execution > Warehouse Management > Activities > Physical Inventory > Dynamic Cycle Counting > General Settings > Define Storage Type Settings
omco
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This step is only required if you perform cycle counting for the first time or if you want to update the cycle counting indicators.
In the material master record (storage data), maintain the cycle counting indicator for all the materials that are to be included in cycle counting.
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manually in the material master record. To do this, choose Material ® Change from the Material Master menu.
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Transported to production on Friday.
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documents, Why does it generate a whole lot inventory documents for
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Can any body pleasae provide me the entire process of physical inventory count at Wm level.
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Sunny.

Hi Sunny,
Physical Inventory Processes:
Several inventory processes available for physical inventory which includes as follow:
1. Periodic Physical Inventory
o All stocks of the company are physically counted on the balance sheet key date
o Every material must be counted
o Entire warehouse must be blocked for material movements during count.
2. Continuous Physical Inventory
o Stocks are counted continuously during the entire fiscal year.
o It is important to ensure that every material is physically counted at least once during the year.
3. Cycle Counting
o In this method of physical inventory, inventory is counted at regular intervals within a fiscal year.
o These intervals (or cycles) depend on the cycle counting indicator set for the material in Material Master record as CC indicator in plant view data.
o With this Cycle Counting Method of Physical Inventory allows fast-moving items to be counted more frequently than slow-moving items.
4. Inventory Sampling
o Randomly selected stocks of the company are physically counted on the balance sheet key date.
o If found not much variance between the counted stock and the book book stock, it is presumed that the book inventory balances for the other stocks are correct.
Physical Inventory Process Cycle Flow
1. Creation of physical inventory document
Physical inventory document(s) is created individually or using the batch program, The transaction codes for creation physical inventory are as follow
Individual Inventory documentation creation
MI01 - Individual physical inventory creation
MIS1 - Inventory Sampling document creation
MICN - Cycle count inventory document creation
Collective Inventory document creation
MI31 - Own stock without special stock
MIK1 - Vendor consignment
MIQ1 - Project stock
MIM1 - Returnable Transpiration material
MIW1 - Customer Consignment stock
MIV1 - Returnable material with customer
MIO1 - Material provided to Vendor (Subcontracting material)
2. Print physical inventory document
Physical Inventory document can be printed based on the physical inventory document status and or item status
Transaction code MI21 is used to print the inventory document where print default value can be populated
3. Count the physical stock
Based on the inventory document printout, the warehouse person will check the stock of material physically and note that on print out. This is completely physical process.
4. Enter count in system
On completion of physical count, the count result is needs to be entered in the system. This can be with reference (using Tcode MI04) or without reference (using Tcode MI04) to the physical inventory document.
If count quantity for that material is ZERO then select ZC (zero count) column instead of putting 0 in qty field. If 0 is used for zero count then systm will consider that as "not counted"
5. Analyze difference
Once count is posted in the system, difference analysis can be carried out using transaction MI20
The output gives information based on the input criteria i.e. physical inventory document, plant, material etc.
The output gives information about the book quantity, Counted quantity, difference in quantity and value.
From this output list, you can carry out further process ie initiate recount, change count quantity, post difference
6. Initiate recount and follow the steps 3,4,5
If found unacceptable difference, recount is initiated using directly from difference analysis list (transaction code MI20) or using transaction code MI11.
New inventory document will be created for selected items or for entire document
The original document items will be deactivated once recount is initiated so original document will not be available for further process.
On initiating recount, you need to process same as for new count document.
7. Post the difference
Several options are available for posting difference
Post difference after count is posted using transaction code MI07
Posting the count and inventory differences using transaction code MI08, here you have created physical inventory but not counted so with this you can count and post difference in sinle step.
Entering the count without a document reference using trasnaction code MI10, with this you can create inventory document, enter the count and post difference in single step.
Hope it helps!
Preethi.
Edited by: preethi R on Nov 25, 2008 12:54 PM

Cycle Counting

Hi
Is Cycle counting inventory process used only in Warehouse Management ?
Can't we use this for std MM ?
Regards,
A

Hi There
Ref the below link for the Detail config process,,
http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/Print46c/en/data/pdf/MMIM/MMIM.pdf
In Transaction Mi01, if you create the PI document, you have to enter the material one by one or you have to copy from the list of material and paste it to create the PI, it is burden for the user,,
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Cycle count procedure

Hi,
The below is the issue my user asking for.
there are B items are to be counted 6 times a year (Once every two months)..
For example:
If plant A has 1000 B items then 500 should be counted in month one and 500 should be counted in month 2.
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User asking why all items fall inonr month when he creates phy.inv docs in MICN.
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Hi
Cycle counting is a method of physical inventory whereby material is inventoried at regular intervals within a fiscal year. These intervals or cycles depend on the cycle counting indicator set for the material.
Cycle counting allows fast-moving items to be counted more frequently than slow-moving items, for example.
All materials to be included in the cycle counting inventory are flagged. This is done either manually, using a cycle counting indicator in the material master record (storage data), or automatically, by means of an ABC analysis. The cycle counting indicator allows you to classify materials into individual cycle counting categories (for example: A, B, C, D) In Customizing, you can set for each category how often the materials are inventoried.
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Manually in the material master record (storage data)
Automatically using ABC analysis.
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To plan the cycle counting inventories, start the RM07ICN1 cycle counting program at regular intervals. This program checks the due dates for inventories for all cycle counting materials.
If it is time for an inventory for a certain material, use the program to create a batch input session to create physical inventory documents. Physical inventory documents are only created for stock type 1 (unrestricted use). The planned inventory count date is calculated as follows:
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Regards
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Can anyone explain me about
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2) How to configure
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Hi,
A scenario for dynamic cycle counting can be as follows.
Say i plan to count 100 bins in Storage type A. If we approach the normal inventory procedure route, here is what happens:
1. Create inventory document.
2. Activate the inventory document
3. Enter count.
4. Recount if necessary.
5. Clear inventory document in WM
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