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1. The return reason is a predefined selection list that you have set
before. This field is similar to Order Reason field we which we often
encounter when working with debit/credit memo request documents.
3. The Material Received indicator indicates that the item material has
been received during return processing.
4. Refund Type field will specify what type of refund the customer
receive. The system provides two types, credit memo (monetary
compensation) or replacement material.
6. Inspection Command Line is a free text, you can enter anything here.
2. Since the item material was bought from an external vendor, the
follow-up activity would be to send it to the vendor.
Return purchase order will be created immediately on saving the Advance return order
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Material inspection
Registration of inspection results for the material directly in the returns order: for
returns order-based deliveries or for supplies-based on returns stock transport orders
Analysis and evaluation of returns processes for reducing the returns volume
Registration of necessary details of the material in the returns order for follow-up
activities
Advantages:
Analysis and evaluation of returns processes for future reduction of returns volume
Examples:
Returns stock transport order, returns purchase order, inbound and outbound delivery as
well as goods movements
The consequence:
Faster processing and higher productivity- User have to interfere rarer in the processes.
Overview over all process steps, created follow-up documents and status information
(settlement and returns refund)
Administration of customer returns and mapping of all returns scenarios in the SAP system
like e.g. direct returns in the shop, returns which include a delivery in the storage with
subsequent reverse handling in logistics and direct returns from customer to the suppliers.
The returns refund takes place with credit memos or replacement material.
Supplier returns are connected with the return of products from one company location to
the following, possible recipients: supplier returns for external suppliers and branch returns
for other companies in the further process of the logistics chain.
Process monitoring
Automatically creation and tracking of all receipts for processing in logistics and
finance
Further advantages
Standard archiving objects for process tracking data supports an easy traceability of
the processes
Because the customer return is a sales business process the returns order will be usually
created with regard to the preceding customer order.
Within the Advanced Returns Management in SAP ERP there is a series of possibilities for
the customer-individual adaption and controlling of the returns process.
The customizing is clear and has a lot of possibilities for the customer-specific design of the
returns process, whether through catalogue entries for material inspection, definition of
returns reasons, determination of goods movements for follow-up activities, determination of
proposal values and so on.
Possible Scenarios
The fundamental returns process with usage of SAP ARM can be individually controlled and
influenced in his course. The process can take many characteristics and properties. The
following scenarios are thinkable and practicable:
Goods receipt in storage through return delivery or personal delivery of the article
Returns refund control, e.g. credit memo or shipment of free replacement material