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Author's profile photo Mrinal Kanti Roy

Synchronous goods receipt and backflush in production order in embedded Extended warehouse management (EWM) in S/4HANA 2020 Release

SAP S/4HANA 2020 release has provided a significant simplification with ‘Synchronous Goods receipt and Backflush for Production order  in embedded Extended warehouse management (EWM)’. Synchronous goods movement is the posting of goods at Inventory management (IM) in S/4HANA and EWM at the same time. Backflush means automatic posting of goods issue for components (raw materials) of production order at the time of Production confirmation. Capability of synchronous goods receipt and backflush is one of the most important innovations for the benefit of the customers using ‘Advanced production integration’ for production order for discrete production processes.

My present blog is to describe this new feature of ‘Synchronous Goods receipt and Backflush for Production order ‘as introduced in embedded EWM of S/4HANA 2020 release, highlight the difference in previous & new processes, pre-requisite configuration and business benefits.

A typical process flow (till S/4HANA 1909 release) for Confirmation of production order with finished good and components managed in EWM managed storage location is depicted in below image. Inbound and outbound deliveries are created in ERP or S/4HANA core for goods receipt of finished good and goods issue for components respectively on confirmation of production order. Corresponding inbound delivery and outbound delivery order are also created in EWM after distribution from ERP (or S/4HANA). Stock update (Increase for goods receipt and decrease for goods issue) happens in Inventory management after goods receipt and goods issue in EWM.

 

The process for production confirmation with S/4HANA 2020 release is in below image showing significant simplifications. Now, on Production confirmation (with transaction CO15 or CO11N), following goods movements happen at the same time i.e synchronously.

  • Goods receipt & goods issue (backflush) happen in ERP (or S/4HANA)– as in image (A)
  • Goods receipt posting & goods issue posting in EWM – as in image (B)

Screenshots of SAP transactions for (A) and (B) are shown in below image. PP05 is the finished good and RM01 is the raw material or the component in this scenario.

Display of material document in transaction MIGO of S/4HANA has also been enhanced with a new tab ‘Warehouse management’ as shown below. Warehouse task of EWM is also displayed with the option to navigate to EWM warehouse monitor directly.

This new functionality will provide the following benefits.

  • Elimination of inbound and outbound deliveries
  • No requirement to monitor asynchronous queues
  • Increased user productivity with elimination of manual postings and manual errors
  • Goods receipt and goods issue in one single material document

One of the most important prerequisite configurations is in below image. Production scheduling profile in ‘Work scheduling’ view of material master of Finished good shall have the setting for ‘Goods receipt and goods issue’ in ‘Post synchronously in bin’.

Note that this functionality is possible

  • Also for Process order
  • only with embedded EWM i.e not with Decentralized EWM.

Functionality of Synchronous goods receipt with backflush for repetitive manufacturing (REM) was provided in embedded EWM in S/4HANA 1909 release as described in my blog in link https://blogs.sap.com/2020/03/13/synchronous-backflush-posting-with-repetitive-manufacturing-in-embedded-ewm-in-s-4hana-1909-release/ .

This is my first blog on innovations on S/4HANA 2020 release. I will write series of blogs with special focus on Advanced ATP, EWM, TM and YL . So, please stay tuned and inform your feedback, comments, views.

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      Author's profile photo Devraj Bardhan
      Devraj Bardhan

      While some customers have started their journey towards S/4HANA there are several who are still on ECC and want to implement EWM - these customers will have to choose Decentralized warehouse running on S/4HANA 2020. Looking forward to the S/4HANA 2020  blog series.

      Author's profile photo Tri Le Bao
      Tri Le Bao

      Hello Mirnal,

      Thanks for your effort in making this blog post.

      I have just one concern.

      When I tried this synchronous posting function in 1909, it didn't work with HU. HU from S/4HANA wasn't sent to EWM and in EWM there was no automatic packing function since there is no delivery.

      Is this still the same when it comes to production order and process order?

      Author's profile photo Mrinal Kanti Roy
      Mrinal Kanti Roy
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Tre Le,

      Synchronous posting for discrete production order is not supported in 1909 release, but supported for REM as in my blog of 1909

      https://blogs.sap.com/2020/03/13/synchronous-backflush-posting-with-repetitive-manufacturing-in-embedded-ewm-in-s-4hana-1909-release/.

      GR with HU and synchronous posting are possible in 2020 release.

      With regards,

      Mrinal

      Author's profile photo Thierry Koessler
      Thierry Koessler

      Hello Mrinal,

      Thanks for the effort.

      I have just one issue.

       

      When I try to set up the synchronus backflush in 2020, i get an error in COGI : "Enter Warehouse Number". (the asynchronous backflush is working well)

      Some idea ?

       

      Thanks

      Thierry

      Author's profile photo Mrinal Kanti Roy
      Mrinal Kanti Roy
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Thierry,

      Yes, I also faced this issue . Reported to SAP , they released the note 2977350. Suggest you to implement the same and then check.

      With regards,

      Mrinal

      Author's profile photo Thierry Koessler
      Thierry Koessler

      Hi Mrinal,

      Thank's a lot, is working now.

       

      With regards

      Thierry

      Author's profile photo Linda Beck
      Linda Beck

      Hello Mrinal,

      Is it possible to post the GR with HU in transaction COP2 with only one material document? If yes, what settings are requiered?

       

      Best regards,

      Linda

      Author's profile photo Marc Dautreaux
      Marc Dautreaux

      Dear Mrinal

      We're experiencing an issue with the synchronous Goods Receipt and the Quality inspection process.

      Our system was working fine with the previous integration method (delivery based) but now it seems that the synchronous goods receipt does not trigger the creation of inspection lot...

      >Our Production issued stock is rightfully posted in quality stock type (our equivalent of standard "Q4") but inspection document is missing.

      Is there additional or new customizing for the quality inspection to work during synchronous goods receipt or is it a regression of 2020 version ?

       

      Thanks

       

      Marc

      Author's profile photo Christian Kraus
      Christian Kraus

      Hello Mrinal,

      is there a possible to trigger via PPF new actions after synchronous goods receipt posting?

      Thanks
      Christian (BMW AG)

      Author's profile photo Ganesh Navale
      Ganesh Navale

      Hello Mrinal,

      I tried to set-up synchronous goods receipt for Prod Order but after posting final confirmation no material document created. All the setting for backflush are in place.

      Also our customer want to do the Quality Inspection after final confirmation & we're using PMR (Advance Prod. Integr) so is it possible to create the deliveries after posting the final confirmation.

       

      Regards,

      Ganesh N

      Author's profile photo Sachi Patabendige
      Sachi Patabendige

      Hi Mrinal,

       

      This is an excellent article thank you for that. My requirement is to receive the FG using HU scan receipt. What are the RF options available to execute this. Is there a RFUI transaction to do 'Synchronous goods receipt and backflush in production order ' or can you do this with COWBHUWE ?

       

      Regards,

      Sachi

      Author's profile photo Marc Dautreaux
      Marc Dautreaux

      Hello Mrinal,

      I can confirm that running the COWBHUWE is working fine with synchronous GR.

      You just need to make a new customizing entry in EWM warehouse process type determination, using a new value of process indicator "007 Rcpt of Packed Items from Production (Synch. Goods Mvmnt)".

      Regarding an RFUI transaction that would make generate a synchronous GR from scanning an HU, I don't remember finding one. the standard RF transaction keeps on creating inbound deliveries in background, if I'm not mistaken.

      Marc

      Author's profile photo Jesper Dueholm
      Jesper Dueholm

      Hello Mrinal,

      Can this functionality work with serialized finished goods?

      I don't see how this can ever work since we somehow need to know which serial numbers has been received.

      Am I wrong?

      Kr.

      Jesper Dueholm