Relieving Inventory

You can relieve the on-hand quantity for an item during shipment confirmation or sales update. The method that you select affects the history records that the system writes to the F4111 table.

Internally Owned Shipment Orders

If you subtract the on-hand quantity from inventory during:

• Shipment confirmation, the system creates a record in the F4111 table with the internally owned shipment order number as the document number and the order type as the document type.

  During sales update, the system overwrites the record with the document number and type, general ledger date, and batch number.

• Sales update, the system updates the document number, type, and general ledger date to the F4111 table.

  Note: For internally owned shipment orders, the system relieves inventory from the supplying branch/plant.

Internally Owned Billing and Customer Owned VMI Orders

If you subtract the on-hand quantity from inventory during:

• Shipment confirmation, the system creates a record in the F4111 table with the outbound inventory order as the document number and the order type as the document type.

  During sales update, the system overwrites the record with the invoice number and type, general ledger date, and batch number.

• Sales update, the system updates the invoice number, type, and general ledger date to the F4111 table.

  Note: For internally owned billing orders, the system relieves inventory from the outbound branch/plant and for customer owned VMI orders, the system relieves inventory from the supplying branch/plant.