Topic overview

This article describes the role of consignment withdrawal declaration types in the processing of consignment withdrawal declarations and how they are recorded. It discusses data contained in the defaults and settings stored in consignment withdrawal declaration types, the effects on the processing, and the further processing of consignment withdrawal declarations that use the corresponding type.

Instructions for handling consignment withdrawal declaration types, e.g. how to enter or edit them, can be found in the article Procedures: Consignment withdrawal declaration types.

Definitions of terms

Consignment

In consignment, the goods of a supplier are made available in a consignment warehouse directly on their customer’s premises. The business transaction and the transfer of ownership only take place upon the issue of the goods from the consignment warehouse, i.e. the customer’s use or resale of the goods, or the transfer of the goods from consignment inventory to own inventory. Such issue is referred to as consignment withdrawal. At agreed intervals, the customer informs the supplier about the consignment withdrawals with the help of a consignment withdrawal declaration. On the basis of these withdrawal declarations, invoices will be issued. From the purchasing perspective, this type of business is referred to as supplier consignment; from the sales perspective, it is referred to as customer consignment.

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.

Application description

Consignment withdrawal declaration types are used to identify consignment withdrawal declarations and contain their default values and settings.

The Consignment withdrawal declaration types application is not divided into identification and work panes, but it contains a number of input fields.

• Type – the Type field contains the identification of a consignment withdrawal declaration type. The identification of a consignment withdrawal declaration type is unique within an OLTP database. It can consist of any text or be suggested by a number range. The identification can only be edited until it is saved for the first time.
• Description – the description serves as an additional identification characteristic. It can consist of any text, but entering a meaningful, understandable text makes it is easier to search for it.
• Number range – enter a number range that the system will use to automatically generate numbers for new consignment withdrawal declarations of the specific type. The number range can be entered beforehand in the Number ranges application. It must be of the Consignment withdrawal declarations category. Further information can be found in the Number ranges article.

Customizing

For the Consignment withdrawal declaration types application, no settings need to be defined in the Customizing application.

Business entities

The following business entity is relevant for the Consignment withdrawal declaration types application, which you use, for instance, to:

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

Consignment withdrawal declaration types: com.cisag.app.purchasing.consignment.obj.ConsignmentWithdrawalNoticeType

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 Consignment withdrawal declaration types application.

Organizational assignments

If the Content-based authorizations function is activated in the Customizing application, the Consignment withdrawal declaration types application is only displayed to users with an organization assigned in the partner master data that is included in at least one of the following organizational structures:

• Purchasing

The Consignment withdrawal declaration types application includes the Authorizations table. For a user to be able to use a consignment withdrawal declaration type, they must be assigned to at least one organization in the partner master data that is listed in the Authorizations table of that consignment withdrawal declaration type.

Further information on the Authorizations table and a comprehensive overview of the content-based authorizations can be found in the Content-based authorizations article.

Special features

There are no special features for the Consignment withdrawal declaration types application.

Authorizations for business partners

The Consignment withdrawal declaration types application is not released for business partners.