Topic overview

This article describes the Cockpit: Consignment withdrawals application. This application is used to query withdrawals of goods from a consignment warehouse as part of consignment purchase orders and to generate consignment withdrawal declarations.

Definitions of terms

Consignment withdrawals

Consignment withdrawal refers to both the issue of goods from a consignment warehouse and the transfer of goods from consignment inventory to own inventory. A consignment withdrawal exists as soon as the picking order is completed, with which the consignment goods are withdrawn for delivery, distribution, production or for an inventory requisition. At the consignment withdrawal the transfer of ownership takes place. With the help of consignment withdrawal declarations, the customer informs their supplier about the consignment withdrawals.

Consignment withdrawal declarations

By means of consignment withdrawal declarations, the customer in a consignment business relation informs their supplier about the withdrawal of goods from the consignment warehouse or about the transfer of goods from consignment inventory to own inventory.

Application description

You can use this query application to get an overview of all or selected withdrawals of goods from a consignment warehouse as part of consignment purchase orders. You can also create withdrawal declarations for consignment withdrawals.

The application consists of a query pane and a work pane.

Query pane

Query fields are stored in the query pane. As a rule, the most important query fields are already available. However, the number of query fields and their placement can vary.

The query pane is the same for all views of the work pane. You can determine on your own which query fields you want to display.

The description of the query fields can usually be found in the What’s this help. Special query fields that can be used as search criteria are listed below. If additional fields are added, you will find their description in the help document of the corresponding application.

• Partner – identification of the partner who withdrew the consignment goods
• Supplier – identification of the partner to whom the consignment goods belonged until the withdrawal
• Warehouse – identification of the warehouse from which the consignment goods were withdrawn
• Posting date – date of the material posting for the goods withdrawal
• Cost center – cost center of the item that was withdrawn from the consignment warehouse (consignment goods)
• Cost unit – cost unit of the item that was withdrawn from the consignment warehouse (consignment goods)
• Item – identification of the item that was withdrawn from the consignment warehouse (consignment goods)
• Status – declaration and invoicing status of the consignment withdrawal. The following options are available:
  • Declaration status:
    • Not declared – no withdrawal declaration has yet been generated
    • Withdrawal declaration generated – a withdrawal declaration has been generated for the consignment withdrawal, but it has not been output yet
    • Withdrawal declared – a withdrawal declaration has been issued for the consignment withdrawal
  • Billing status:
    • Non-invoiced
    • Invoiced in part
    • Invoiced in full

Work pane

A table is available in the work area in which the queried consignment withdrawals are displayed. You can determine which information on the consignment withdrawals is displayed. Multiple views can be created to view consignment withdrawals in different ways with different information.

Standard view

Below, you can find a description of all the main table columns in this view. If further columns are added, you will find their description in the help article of the associated application.

• Partner – this column displays the number of the partner who withdrew the consignment goods
• Partner name – this column displays the name of the partner who withdrew the consignment goods
• Supplier – this column displays the number of the partner to whom the consignment goods belonged until the withdrawal
• Supplier name – this column displays the name of the partner  to whom the consignment goods belonged until the withdrawal
• Warehouse – this column displays the identification of the warehouse from which the consignment goods were withdrawn
• Posting date – this column displays the date on which the the inventory posting for the consignment withdrawal was made
• Voucher line item – this column displays the number of the voucher line item that generated the inventory posting for the consignment withdrawal. In the case of a manual inventory posting, the column is empty.
• Cost center – this column displays the number of the cost center assigned to the item
• Cost unit – this column displays the number of the cost unit assigned to the item
• Item – this column displays the number of the item that was withdrawn from the consignment warehouse (consignment goods)
• Item description – this column displays the description of the item that was withdrawn from the consignment warehouse (consignment goods)
• Total quantity – this column shows the quantity of the withdrawn item
• Status – this column shows the declaration and invoice status of the consignment withdrawal. The following values are possible:
  • Declaration status:
    • Not declared – no withdrawal declaration has yet been generated
    • Withdrawal declaration generated – a withdrawal declaration has been generated for the consignment withdrawal, but it has not been output yet
    • Withdrawal declared – a withdrawal declaration has been issued for the consignment withdrawal
  • Billing status:
    • Non-invoiced
    • Invoiced in part
    • Invoiced in full

Application-related action [Generate withdrawal declarations…]

Use the [Generate withdrawal declarations…] action to generate consignment withdrawal declarations for the selected consignment withdrawals. Based on the withdrawal declarations, the withdrawn goods are settled with the supplier by means of supplier invoices.

For each combination of supplier (source inventory owner) and partner (target inventory owner), a withdrawal declaration is generated. The supplier contract specifies whether and according to which criteria the consignment withdrawals are combined into line items in the withdrawal declaration.

If several supplier contracts are currently valid for the same combination of supplier and partner, the contract determined first is used.

Withdrawal declarations can be queried for further use in the Cockpit: Consignment withdrawal declarations application.

Customizing

For the Cockpit: Consignment withdrawals application, no settings need to be defined in the Customizing application.

Business entities

The following business entity is relevant for the Cockpit: Consignment withdrawals application, which you use, for instance, to:

• Assign authorizations
• Set up activity definitions
• Import or export data

Consignment withdrawal: com.cisag.app.purchasing.consignment.obj.ConsignmentWithdrawal

Authorizations

Authorizations can be assigned by means of authorization roles as well as by assigning an organization. More about the authorization concept can be found in the techni­cal article Authorizations.

Special capabilities

There are no special capabilities for the Cockpit: Consignment withdrawals application.

Organizational assignments

Organizational structures are used to control which data is visible, usable or editable. For this purpose, the function Content-based authorizations must be activated in the Customizing application.

For the Cockpit: Consignment withdrawals application to be displayed in the user menu, the user must be assigned to an organization that is included in one of the following organizational structures:

• Purchasing

Special features

There are no special features for the Cockpit: Consignment withdrawals application.

Authorizations for business partners

The Cockpit: Consignment withdrawals application is not released for business partners.