| # Shipping Material Account (whwmd4670m000) Use this session to to communicate with a business partner about received/issued quantities of packaging items and payments of packaging items. The shipping material account is used to record packaging item transactions and balances for the purpose of reporting to business partners. Note ERP Enterprise records the packaging item transactions only when the: Extended Packaging Item Registration check box is selected in the Master Data Parameters (whwmd0100s000) session. Accountable check box is selected in the Packaging Items (whwmd4505m000) session. Important! You can copy all the items from one business partner to another business partner within the same shipping material account. Search of Shipping Material Accounts (SMA) When ERP Enterprise records a shipping material transaction, ERP Enterprise searches for a shipping material account (SMA) to be linked to the transaction in the following hierarchy: ERP Enterprise searches for an SMA that has a combination of business partner, packaging item, and transaction date of the transaction. Step 1 can result in an empty SMA. This means that the item is excluded from accounting for the specific business partner. If an SMA is found in step 1, then the search action stops else step 2 is executed. ERP Enterprise searches for an SMA that has a combination of business partner and transaction date of the transaction. In the above steps , ERP Enterprise searches for an entry in the shipping material account that has an effective date which is closest to the transaction date. Expiry dates for the shipping material account are not defined. The expiry date of an existing entry in the shipping material account is determined by the effective date of a new entry in the accounting scheme. Shipping Material Account The shipping material account code. ERP Enterprise generates a new SMA code from the: SMA number group of the User Profiles (whwmd1140s000) session. SMA number group of the Master Data Parameters (whwmd0100s000) session. Shipping Material Account The description or name of the code. Search Key The search key of the SMA. The default is the first characters of the description field. Print Shipping Material Accounts Prints the shipping material accounts. |