Creation of Packaging Specifications

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Use
You create a packaging specification to map in the system how you should pack a product.

Prerequisites
You have made the following settings in Customizing:

Define a Number Range for the Packaging Specification

Define General Packing Parameters

Define Group for Packaging Specification

SAP also recommends that you make the (optional) settings under
“Maintain Structure of the
Packaging Specification”
and
“Determination of Packaging Specifications”
.

For more information, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for

“SCM Basis”
under
 “Packing”
“Packaging Specification”
.

Features
When you access the
“Maintain Packaging Specification”
transaction, the overview screen
appears first. This is divided into two parts: the upper screen is used to search for existing
packaging specifications. The lower screen is a list in which you create new packaging
specifications, and can display or change existing packaging specifications.

From the list, you can go to the

“create”
,
“change”
, and
“display”
functions on the detail screen
.
This displays the structure of the packaging specification in the left screen area (in other words,
the levels, elements, and the contents). The upper right screen area shows the most important
header data for the packaging specification. The lower right screen area shows the detail data for
the selected subobject of the packaging specification (in other words, for the level, the element, or
the contents).

Activities
1. On the
“SAP Easy Access”
screen, choose
 “Extended Warehouse Management”
“Master Data” “Packaging Specification” “Maintain Packaging Specification”
.

2. The overview screen appears. Here you can access existing packaging specifications using
the quick search or the advanced search.

3. To create a new packaging specification, choose

“ Add New Line”
(symbol
).

4. In the
“PS Group”
column, select a packaging specification.

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 5. Select the packaging specification, then choose
“Change”
to access the detail screen.

6. On the detail screen, you can first edit the header attributes for packaging specification, for
example, you can enter a description or define the business key for the packaging
specification (
“Determination”
tab page).

7. You can define the structure of a packaging specification in Customizing (see also the IMG
for
“SCM Basis”
under
 “Packing” “Packaging Specification” “Maintain Structure of
Packaging Specification” “Define Level Set”
). If you work without level sets, then you
should specify the structure of the specification in the packaging specification. You create
levels and contents in the left screen area using the context menu (right mouse button).

8. When you create a packaging specification that describes the packing for a product, you
enter the product in the Contents area.

9. For a level, you enter a target quantity and, where required, the minimum and layer
quantity. Note that these quantities refer to the previous levels. Target quantity 10 for level 2
means, for example, that you should pack level 1 ten times into the main packaging
material for level 2. In other words, 10 boxes onto one pallet.

10. For a level, you can either create the elements manually, or if you are working with a level
set then the elements are proposed by the system.

11. To specify the main packaging material for a level, for example, create an element with HU
relevance
“Main Packaging Material”
, and enter the packaging material in the relevant field.

12. The attributes

“Weight”
,
“Volume”
, and
“Dimensions”
(tab page) for the level are
automatically determined by the system for the first main packaging material for a level. For
this, the system adopts the attributes for tare and maximum weight (and/or volume, and/or
capacity) and the dimensions from the product master for the packaging material. Choose
“HU Check”
to make the system calculate the attributes
“Loading and Total Weight”
(and/or
“Volume”
, and/or
“Capacity”
).

13. When you save, you close a packaging specification in the detail area.

14. Choose
“Back”
(F3) to go back to the overview area.

15. In the overview area, you can activate one or more packaging specifications. The
prerequisite for being able to determine the packaging specification in other processes is
activation of the packaging specification (see also:
Packaging Specification Determination
).
If the packaging specification contains all the data and you can use the packaging
specification for the process, then you activate the packaging specification.

16. The overview area also offers you the functions

“Copy”
,
“New Version”
,
“Print Preview”
,
and
“Delete”
.

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