Warehouse Management - physical inventory

Question

Hi All,
Can any body pleasae provide me the entire process of physical inventory count at Wm level.
Thanks
Sunny.

Answer 1

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