Print Transfer Orders and Labels

Use

Transfer orders and labels are printed for the purpose of identifying and moving stock
from one location to another in the warehousing complex, picking stock and making
preparations for shipping activities.
Depending on the settings in Customizing, the system normally prints transfer orders
automatically when they are created. However, you can manually print out a single
transfer order or a group of transfer orders in various formats. For example, a forklift
operator can use the printout to identify pallets that are to be moved into the warehouse.
If a transfer order causes the storage bin to be inventoried (continuous inventory
method), the system indicates this on the transfer order document. The transfer order
can then be treated as an inventory document.
When the system prints the transfer order, it uses the default report that is defined for
the warehouse. The reports RLVSDR40 "Print Transfer Orders" and RLKOMM40 "Print
Combined Pick List" are delivered with the Warehouse Management (WM) application
component.

Prerequisites

Controlling the printing process

To define the codes that control printing in WM, you need to maintain data in several
tables in the Warehouse Management section of Customizing. The tables control where,
when and how transfer orders are printed. To make settings for the objects (tables or
table views) that control the printing process, see Activities Define Print Control in
the Warehouse Management section of the Implementation Guide (IMG).
Print code
The system branches to the print report when it creates transfer orders. In Customizing
for Warehouse Management, you assign the standard print report that is to be used for
each warehouse number. Each transfer order has a specific movement type. In
Customizing, you assign a print code to each WM movement type. Therefore, the system
assigns a print code to each transfer order based on the movement type. When transfer
orders are posted, the print code determines which and how many forms and/or labels
will be printed and the spool code. As an additional function, for the combined list, the
print code also determines the sort order of items within the printout.

Note
The sorting of TO items makes it possible to optimize the printing sequence. This pertains
particularly to the TO items that can be sorted and picked from the same source bin. You
can configure various sorting routines that exist in the standard system.
Since the processing time for transfer orders (TO) is dependent on the sequence of the
TO items, you can switch off the sorting function for TO printing, if required.
Spool code
The Spool code determines the spool parameters, such as the number of copies and
when the transfer orders are to be printed.
Depending on the source and destination storage types for the stock movement, you can
overwrite the form names and spool parameters for each transfer item.
Collective processing
The system determines how to print combined pick lists based on a table entry in
Customizing. For this task, the system branches to the RLKOMM40 "Print Combined Pick
List" report. You can also enter a printing status in a table that instructs the system to
print individual transfer orders (TOs). In this case, the system prints transfer orders
normally.
With report RLKOMM40, you can print both combined pick lists and individual items. The
advantage of printing single items with RLKOMM40 instead of RLVSDR40 lies in the
capability to sort transfer order items for release as a group at a particular time.

Features

Transfer order printing

Printed transfer orders contain all the information necessary for carrying out stock
movements. Standard information includes the source and destination storage types and
bins, material number and description, quantity, bar code, the date the transfer order
was printed and the transfer order number.
Depending upon how you configure the system in Customizing, several options are
available in addition to the standard information:

You can print the personnel number and name for the entry of actual data in a
transfer order.

You can print shipping information such as the address of the goods recipient (see
system tables VBLKK, VBLKB and VEKP).

You can also print serial numbers if the transfer order is referenced to a delivery
item that contains a serial number.

Caution
The system prints all serial numbers for a delivery item even when the delivery item is
picked with several transfer order items.

You can print production data as long as the transfer order is referenced to a
production order. For this task, the system reads the corresponding reservations from
table RESB.

When you display transfer orders for groups, the sorting function of report
RLKOMM40 dictates how pick lists are printed.

For picking, you can configure single lists and combined lists to break them down
into their individual requirement quantities. (This pertains to the totals line and
corresponding individual requirements in deliveries and transfer requirements.) For
example, you can print duplicates of lists as necessary.

Additional requests from 2-step picking are taken into consideration.

Customer exits allow you to access options in the standard system without having
to modify existing programs for the printer search function.

You can output printing information as an external sequential file.

Label printing
In addition to the transfer order documents, you can also print labels for individual
transfer order items. The label-printing function is intended to support picking in the
warehouse.
The following features for printing labels are available:

From the printing transaction itself, you can use options to select how the system
is to print the labels. These include following options:

Rounding quantity in alternative unit of measure

Rounding quantity in base unit of measure

Quantity in alternative unit of measure and the rest in the base unit of measure

One label per transfer order item (the quantity on the label is in the alternative
unit of measure)

Note
You can also print individual transfer order items manually for large quantities. (See the
example under field help for the Large qty field on the WM transfer order print screen.)
This makes it possible for you to reduce the number of labels used for transferring large
quantities of material.

Example
For example, many customers pick with label lists in which pickers label each package,
pallet or unit to be moved. These are then sent through a sorting system that combines
the various delivery items. This makes it necessary (depending on the settings in
Customizing) to decide whether to print a label based on the unit of measure, transfer
order item or the required quantity (for 2-step picking).

Labels in the allocation step (2-step picking) also contain the group number.


You can print labels for the picking step (if necessary).

You can customize the printing of individual items, combined lists and labels.
Just as with the printing of transfer orders, before you print labels, you need to activate
label printing inCustomizing. See Activities Define Print Control in the
Implementation Guide (IMG) for Warehouse Management.
Printer determination
The system assigns a printer based on transfer order items (picked in a function module)
according to the following hierarchy:
1.
Manual entries always take precedence.
2.
The printer is assigned based on the goods movement.
3.
1.
The system checks first to see if a printer is assigned to a picking area.
2.
If there is no printer assigned to a picking area, the printer is copied from
the source storage type table if it is selected in the goods movement.
4.
If printer assignment information is not found, the printer in the users master
record is used.
5.
If the printer in the user master record is not maintained, the system defaults to
LP01.
6.
For each warehouse number and selected printer, the system evaluates the
printing of storage unit documents and labels from the printer-pool table. If no printers
have been maintained in this table, the documents are printed on the transfer order
printer (LP01).
The function module for printer determination is integrated in the transfer order creation
function.
Storage unit documents
If Storage Unit Management is active in your system, you can also print storage unit
documents. The SU documents that are available for automatic printing are listed in
the Storage Unit Documents section.
Constraints
This function does not support any specific label printer. In other words, there are no
printer-specific control codes for label printers. The system either prints in SAPScript
format or issues output as a file.
Any additional print information that is not available in the standard system must be read
in (or input using a scanner) using a customer exit.
You cannot print a separate document for a return item using the standard software. This
can be done using a customer exit.