Inventory sampling

Inventory sampling in a decentralized SAP Warehouse Management System (SAP-WMS)

For large stocks, it has proven successful in practice to perform sample inventories instead of an inventory of the entire stock. The advantage: Enormous time saving and reduction of staff costs.

SAP Inventory Sampling – Advantages

In cooperation with a major customer in the logistics sector, clavis has developed a solution that reduces the counting effort by up to 99.9% by combining SAP standard programs, add-ons (i.e. programs developed in-house) and a third-party system. The inventory is performed in parallel to the day-to-day business. Warehouse closing times are reduced; production downtimes and thus sales shortfalls are avoided.

The particularity of the solution: A warehouse number is assigned to each different customer with their own SAP ERP system. Plant, warehouse number and the logical system are used for delimitation.

SAP Inventory Sampling – Advantages – Functions

SAP Inventory Sampling provides the following functionalities and processes:

• Provision of data from the ERP System
• Provision of data from the WMS
• Warehouse structure analysis in the external system
• Creation of inventory documents
• Counting
• Posting differences
• Provision of data from the WMS including posted differences
• Extrapolation in the external system

This electronic solution is successfully implemented at several customer sites.