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Author's profile photo Vivek Sharma

Count Stock App

Count stock and Manage Stock Counting are two apps that can be used to count stock at stores/plant/warehouse etc.

Framework
Idea behind these apps is to get rid of the paperwork and delays associated with counting stock. But please note that these apps are NOT designed to be the only stock counting process you will have. These apps are best used in a Cycle Counting process, where some high value items are counted regularly or different type of items are counted at different time of the year.

Stock Counting Process 
The standard process where these apps can be used “almost” out of the box  is outlined below.

Standard stock counting process that will work out of box is as follows
  1. Back office creates a list of items to be counted (Physical inventory document) in ECC using standard SAP functionality MI01. This is not part of FIORI-MIM and is a prerequisite to count in this App.
  2. Physical inventory documents are shown in count stock app for the respective stores.
  3. Store associate counts stock through app and submits the count.
  4. Store Manager reviews through manage stock counting app.
  5. Store Manager can request for re-count (or) submit to back office.
  6. Back office reviews and posts the differences.
If you have a SAP MM/IM specialist they will be able to shed more light on it. Steps which have been automated in these apps and thus can be used for a business case for these apps are…
  1. Automatic communication of items to be counted to store/plant/warehouse etc via Physical Inventory documents
  2. When counting stock, different people can work on same list without affecting anybody else
  3. Review, approval or recount (of item count) by a supervisor/manager at store/plant/warehouse etc
  4. Second review and approval by back office before being posted in SAP.
Gaps and Limitation 
In our implementation, we faced following limitations and made changes to overcome these changes
  1. Use of handheld third party scanner to scan and count
  2. Updating zero count (ZC) flag automatically

Step wise walkthrough

Step 1: Create a count document using Mi01 in ECC


Step 2
: Physical inventory documents show up in both apps of respective store.

Manage count stock app

Count stock app

 

Step 3: Store associate counts stock at 2 locations through app and submits the count.

Count Stock app

Manage count stock app


Step 4: Store manager/supervisor can accept the counts or send it for recount. After the document is submitted, the ABAP code we have written for updating ZC will change “blank” counts to zeros.

Step 5:
 Back office reviews and submits through transactions Mi07/8/10/20

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      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Hello Vivek,

       

      I have created a Physical Inventory and added a material. Please provide me with the Launchpad error when I tried to add product to count in Count Stock app. Error is - This product is not part of the inventory to be counted.

       

      Thank you in advance,

      Alex.

      Author's profile photo Vivek Sharma
      Vivek Sharma
      Blog Post Author

      Alexander,

      This error means that material is not in the physical inventory document.

      Can you confirm that you see the document and material in the Manage Count Stock app.  If not then you are not in same store/site for which the document was created.

       

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Hi Vivek,

       

      thank you for you answer!

      That is a point, material is already added to physical inventory document. Screenshots below should clarify my issue.

       

      1. This is the physical inventory document. Material is not yet counted:

       

      2. I opened Count Stock app and found there my phys.inv.doc (100000040) and tried to add product to count:

       

      Double-click for select material

       

      3. Error message has appeared:

       

      4. Into Manage Stock Counting app i have seen my material:

       

      What do you think on this?

       

      Many thanks for your help!

      Alex.

      Author's profile photo Vivek Sharma
      Vivek Sharma
      Blog Post Author

      Alexander,

      We did not face this error. In addition, we ended up tweaking the UI to search and include the material whenever a bar code is scanned. So, can't really comment on this.

      There are two things you can do at this stage. First, look up the java script code to see why it is giving that message OR open a ticket with SAP.

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member
      Hi Alex,
      Im facing similar issue right now with Fiori Count Stock, were you able to solve this one?kindly enlighten me what adjustment you made.
      Thank you in advance,
      Harvey