System allows IM posting while warehouse inventory document activated

Question

We are in the process of counting inventory, and have warehouse inventory documents created and activated via LX16.
However, it is possible to post a goods issue or scrap on the Inventory Managment side, but the warehouse transfer order is blocked as expected.
Why does the system allow a IM material posting to occur if a warehouse count sheet is activated for the bin?

Answer 1

The continuous Inventory functionality is designed that way so without stopping the inventory process you can to the Physical.see the following documents
There are laws that require you to perform a physical inventory at least once during each fiscal year for each storage bin. This physical inventory should check whether the book inventory balance or target stock amount in the system matches the actual stock that physically exists in the storage bin.
In continuous inventory, you distribute the physical inventory for all storage bins over the course of the fiscal year, and can carry out inventories at different times as you require. This means that you can include the warehouse stock by material type and material quantity that exists on the closing key date, even without a simultaneous physical inventory (annual inventory) from the records in the Warehouse Management system (WMS).
For this reason, continuous inventory has the following advantages over annual inventory, which takes place on a key date at the end of the fiscal year:
The effort and costs for the inventory is not concentrated on a certain day or days but is distributed over the entire year. You can better plan the workforce in the warehouse.
You can carry out the inventory at idle times in the warehouse.
Because of the lower inventory efforts at the end of the fiscal year, you can concentrate on creating year-end closing reports.