SAP Note 27485 - Goods issue for deliveries w/o inventory management

Symptom:

Deliveries which only consist of non-inventoried items are not taken into account in the collective transactions for posting the goods issue:

• up to Release 4.0B
  Transaction VL19: Deliveries currently being processed - Deliverieis for Goods Issue

• as of Release 4.5A:
  Transaction VL06G: Outbound delivery monitor - Outbound Deliveries for Goods Issue
  

This affects, for example, deliveries which consist only of items with materials of material type 'DIEN' (service products, service management, MM external services management) or which consist only of text or value items. These deliveries are also not displayed in the search help for outbound deliveries.

Cause and prerequisites

This function is not planned in the R/3 standard system. For non-inventoried deliveries, a goods issue posting is not required. Nevertheless, in individual cases you might want to be able to trigger follow-up actions, as for example, billing via the posting of goods issue.

Solution

Change the selection conditions of matchcode object VMVL as described below.

1. Call up Transaction SE11 (ABAP Dictionary) and branch to the display of matchcode object VMVL. Carry out this step according to the release of your system:

• Releases 3.0 and 3.1: On the initial screen of Transaction SE11, enter object name VMVL and select the dictionary object 'Matchcode objects'. Then, choose 'Display'.

• Release 4.0: On the initial screen of Transaction SE11, enter object name VMVL and choose function 'Utilities--> Matchcode objects --> Display' via the menu.

• Releases 4.5 and 4.6: On the initial screen of Transaction SE11, choose function 'Utilities -> Other Dictionary objects'. On the dialog box which is then displayed, select object type 'Matchcode object' and enter object name VMVL. Choose 'Display'.

2. On the initial screen of the matchcode maintenance, press 'Matchcode IDs'.

3. Select matchcode ID A on the selection dialog box and branch to the selection conditions of the matchcode ID.

4. There, delete the following line of the selection condition

MC field Lngth Offs Op. Comp. value AND/OR

VBOBJ 1 0 EQ 'L' AND
WBSTK 1 0 NE ' ' AND <<<<<< DELETE
WBSTK 1 0 NE 'C'

5. Activate the matchcode ID. These steps are sufficient in order to allow the selection of the non-inventoried deliveries via Collective Transactions VL19 or VL06G. If you want that these deliveries can also be selected via search help C 'Not posted for goods issue: shipping point/trans.s', carry out steps 1 to 5 for matchcode ID C of object VMVL.

6. Reconstruct matchcode ID A (and C, if necessary) with report SAPMACO (see Note 15760).

Additional key words

Matchcode, VMVL, M_VMVLA, M_VMVLC, WABU, selection, delivery monitor, WBSTK, goods movement status, VL23