Rough GR in SAP

Rough Goods Receipt in SAP

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Summary: This document helps the P2P/Retail/WM consultants to understand the Rough goods receipt scenario in SAP. It explains how the configuration and the master data to be maintained for the rough goods receipt business. Any suggestions and improvements towards this document will be always welcome. Author: Mohamed Hasan Rifaie.M Company: Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd., Created on: 28 May 2010

Author Bio: Mohamed Hasan Rifaie.M, a SAP certified Procurement consultant, is now an employee of Larsen &Toubro Infotech Ltd. He has total 9 years of experience, out of which around 3 years experience in the area of SAP Consulting in Procure to pay (P2P) process and Supplier Relationship Management (SRM). He has worked various industries like Electro mechanical construction, Automobile, Refrigeration industry as a Procurement Executive. He has secured University Rank in Engineering degree.

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Table of Contents Rough Goods Receipt ........................................................................................................................................ 3 Types of Goods receipt ................................................................................................................................... 3 Advantages ..................................................................................................................................................... 4 Integration ....................................................................................................................................................... 4 Process ........................................................................................................................................................... 5 Info record set up (Optional) ........................................................................................................................................ 5 Purchase order creation with Rough GR ..................................................................................................................... 6 Create Rough Goods Receipt ...................................................................................................................................... 8 Create Goods Receipt ............................................................................................................................................... 12 Purchase order creation with shipping notification and Rough GR ............................................................................ 14 Create Inbound delivery ............................................................................................................................................. 15 Create Rough Goods Receipt with reference to shipping notification ........................................................................ 17

Configuration ................................................................................................................................................. 20 Define External Confirmation Categories ................................................................................................................... 20 Define Internal Confirmation Categories .................................................................................................................... 21 Set Up Confirmation Control ...................................................................................................................................... 21 Assign Output Determination Procedure .................................................................................................................... 25 Define Delivery Types ................................................................................................................................................ 26 Define Item Category Determination in Deliveries ..................................................................................................... 28 Define Number Ranges for Deliveries ........................................................................................................................ 29 Delivery Split by Warehouse Number ........................................................................................................................ 31 Set Up Partner Determination for Deliveries .............................................................................................................. 32

Related Content ................................................................................................................................................ 34 Disclaimer and Liability Notice .......................................................................................................................... 35




Rough Goods Receipt The rough goods receipt is a step that takes place before the actual goods receipt posting. The delivery is identified and the items on the delivery documents sent by the vendor are matched up with the order items in the system. The system compares the quantities ordered with those contained in the delivery papers. Technically, a rough goods receipt document is the same as an inbound delivery. Only after the goods are physically received and the goods receipt posted are the articles included in the inventory of the site. When the goods receipt is entered, reference is made to the rough goods receipt. You can only use rough goods receipts if you use SAP Retail. Rough GR is made by manually entering the quantities delivered in confirmation control screen. A goods receipt for a purchase order can take place either in one or in two steps. If it takes place in two steps, it is first entered as "rough" and then as "exact." The rough goods receipt involves identifying the delivery and matching up the items on the delivery documents sent by the vendor with the order items in the system. A rough goods receipt can be entered for a number of purchase orders and can refer to a shipping notification. A rough goods receipt can only be entered if a special confirmation key is set for the purchase order items. When a rough goods receipt is posted, a document is created that is similar to a shipping notification. When the exact goods receipt is entered, reference is made to the rough goods receipt on the rough goods receipt reference document. This is the first step in a two-step goods receipt. Only the information contained in the delivery note from the vendor is entered in the system. Types of Goods receipt Basically there are two types of Goods receipt in SAP retail 

Single step

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Two step

Single step: Goods receipt happening in one step can be called as Single step. Receipt of goods directly in to our own stock is an example for this process. Depends on the stock type the posting to the accounts will happen. Two Step: Goods receipt happening in more than one step namely rough and exact goods receipt can be called as two step procedure. For example, the goods shall be first received by rough goods receipt and further added in to own stock by using confirmed /exact goods receipt.




The following figure illustrates the types of Goods receipt. Purchase Order

Shipping notification

Whether Single step or Two step Single step

Two step

Rough Goods Receipt

Goods Receipt

Goods Receipt

Invoice verification

Advantages The rough goods receipt has the following advantages, 

Quantities on the delivery note can be entered without worrying the order quantities.

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Order items can be assigned and arranged

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The goods receipt can be included in availability checks

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This goods receipt can be included in MRP point of view.

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Count lists can be created

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Goods receipt/issue slips can be created

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The received quantity will not affect any cost object until confirmed GR.

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This enables you to identify large quantity differences or articles that are wrongly delivered even before you take physical receipt of the goods.

Integration Although this scenario designed exclusively for SAP retail, still the following integration needs to be carried out before executing this rough GR scenario. 

SAP Materials management

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SAP Retail

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SAP Warehouse management

SAP Retail also enables you to enter the goods receipt in two steps. To ensure that the data is as accurate as possible when the goods are actually checked at goods receipt, you can enter the delivery note data as a rough goods receipt. You post the actual goods receipt in a second step, referencing the rough goods receipt.




Process Info record set up (Optional) For creating info record, we can follow the standard procedure providing need to give input in the confirmation control field. Please note, this shall be an optional set up. There are two kinds, 

Rough GR

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Shipping notification with rough GR

Whenever you are creating the purchase order, the confirmation control filed will be defaulted automatically by this set up.




Purchase order creation with Rough GR Create the purchase order as per the standard procedure and go to the confirmation tab and select the confirmation control field as Rough GR (0002), if the prior info record has not been maintained.







Create Rough Goods Receipt Retailing Merchandise Logistics Goods Receipt Rough GR Create Transaction : VL41 On the initial selection screen, give the vendor number, plant and the purchase order number as input and proceed.

On the detail screen enter the delivery note number from the vendor delivery note. Here, system will propose the order quantity that can be overwritten and save it.




Thus the inbound delivery created for this order by creating rough goods receipt.

By doing rough Goods receipt it will not neither increase the stock nor the purchase order history.







But, it will update the stock requirement list in MRP point of view so that the received quantity by inbound delivery can be seen in MRP list.




Create Goods Receipt Logistics Materials Management Inventory Management Goods Movement  MIGO Goods Movement (MIGO) Transaction : MIGO_GR Here, select the reference as “Inbound delivery” and input the inbound delivery number generated during creation of rough Goods receipt.




It will update the purchase order history, stock as well as stock requirement list as a received stock.




Purchase order creation with shipping notification and Rough GR Create the purchase order as per the standard procedure and go to the confirmation tab and select the confirmation control field as Shipping notification / Rough GR (0003), if the prior info record has not been maintained.




Create Inbound delivery Merchandise Logistics Logistics Execution Inbound Process → Goods Receipt for Inbound Delivery → Inbound Delivery → Create Transaction : VL31N Give the input as vendor number and the purchase order number and enter it,




Please note, you cannot receive the goods based on the shipping notification if the system is configured for shipping notification with rough goods receipt.




Create Rough Goods Receipt with reference to shipping notification Merchandise Logistics Goods Receipt Rough GR Create Transaction : VL41 On the initial selection screen, give the vendor number, plant and the inbound delivery number as input and proceed.










Configuration Define External Confirmation Categories In this activity, you can make the settings for rough goods receipt, if your system is configured as an SAP Retail System. Materials ManagementInventory Management and Physical InventoryRough Goods Receipt Define External Confirmation Categories

Execute it,




Define Internal Confirmation Categories In this activity, you assign an external confirmation category to each internal confirmation category. On the basis of this assignment, the system is able to recognize which confirmation category represents order acknowledgments and which one represents shipping notifications. Materials ManagementInventory Management and Physical InventoryRough Goods Receipt Define Internal Confirmation Categories

Execute it,

Set Up Confirmation Control Once you have set up the confirmation control facility in a production system, you should not make any changes to the relevant settings. Changes to the Customize settings can lead to data inconsistencies in your system (e.g. incorrect MRP-relevant quantities). In this step, you define confirmation control keys and specify the confirmation sequence.




Confirmation control key: For PO items in respect of which confirmations are to be used, a confirmation key must be assigned. You can define a confirmation control key with just one confirmation category (e.g. shipping notification) and a confirmation control key covering several confirmation categories (order acknowledgment, loading confirmation, shipping notification). Confirmation sequence: With the confirmation sequence, you can specify the order in which the individual confirmations defined in a confirmation control key are expected and which confirmation categories are to be automatically monitored. In addition, you can specify for all confirmation categories whether they are for your information only or are also to be relevant to Materials Planning and Goods Receiving Materials ManagementInventory Management and Physical InventoryRough Goods Receipt Set Up Confirmation Control




Execute it,







Assign Output Determination Procedure In this IMG activity you assign the output condition procedures to documents. Materials ManagementInventory Management and Physical InventoryRough Goods Receipt Output DeterminationAssign Output Determination Procedure




Define Delivery Types In this menu option you define your delivery types which represent the different business transactions in shipping. Logistics ExecutionShippingDeliveries Define Delivery Types







Define Item Category Determination in Deliveries In this menu option you define the item category determination for deliveries. If an order item or a schedule line is copied into a delivery, the item category is also copied. For items independent of orders in the delivery (for example, packaging material that is entered in the delivery) or deliveries without reference to an order, the item category is determined by the SAP System by allocating the item category group to a delivery type . Logistics ExecutionShippingDeliveries Define Item Category Determination in Deliveries




Define Number Ranges for Deliveries In this menu option you define the number intervals of the number ranges for deliveries and groups of deliveries. Logistics ExecutionShippingDeliveries Define Number Ranges for Deliveries







Delivery Split by Warehouse Number In this activity, you can make settings so that deliveries within one warehouse are created automatically for specific warehouse numbers and delivery types, and a delivery split is carried out if necessary. In the case of a delivery within one warehouse, all storage locations of the delivery items must belong to one warehouse number, or they can have no warehouse number assigned to them. If this does not apply to the items of an order, then several deliveries are created automatically. Logistics ExecutionShippingDeliveries Define Split Criteria for DeliveriesDelivery Split by Warehouse Number




Set Up Partner Determination for Deliveries In this activity, you define the rules that should be used to perform automatic partner determination. Define the partner functions that differentiate the roles of partners in your system, define the partner determination procedure, and assign the key of the relevant partner object to this procedure and assign the partner functions you define to the account groups. IMG  Logistics Execution  Shipping  Basic Shipping Functions  Partners  Set Up Partner Determination for Deliveries







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