Topic overview

The reorganization application Reorganize inventory postings is used to reorganize inventory postings. Below you will find, among other things, descriptions of how to use the reorganization application and its parameters. You will also be informed about the effects of the reorganization.

The reorganization applications are executed by the Reorganization jobs application. The description of this application can be found in the Reorganization jobs article. It also contains a procedure on how to run the reorganization application.

Various reorganization applications are added to a list in the Reorganization jobs application in order to execute them one after the other in a reorganization run. In order for reorganization to actually take place, a certain sequence within the list must often be adhered to. This is the only way to resolve usages. This sequence can be found in the Reorganization sequence article.

Definitions of terms

Background application
A background application is an application that is run without interaction with a user. It can be opened either by a batch job, a CORBA call-up, or another application.

Reorganization
When data are reorganized, they are physically deleted from the database. Deletion requires a set of checks to be satisfied. With reorganization, any business objects that are dependent on the data to be deleted are also deleted.

Reorganization application
Reorganization applications are background applications with the special usage Reorganization. Reorganization applications are used to reorganize master and transaction data according to certain criteria.

Reorganization job
A reorganization job is a batch job exclusively for calling up one or more reorganization applications. The reorganization applications are called up in an individual sequence, whereby sequence dependencies are considered.

Inventory postings
Inventory posting is carried out in order to document all quantity and value transactions within inventory management. In the process of inventory posting, inventory is updated and evaluated depending on the posting key used.

Company
With reference to organizations, within the organizational structure for Financials, one assigned organization is referred to as a firm. A firm is a corporate body with a separate balance sheet.
You can set the Financials firm for the data records transferred from the OLTP database in the Customizing application. In Financial Accounting, any number of firms can be kept in one database.

Period
A period is a period of time within a fiscal year. Periods sub-divide a fiscal year in order to be able to assess corporate data a certain times, for example.

Item
An item is a tangible or intangible article. An item can be a raw material, finished product, module, storage unit, or replacement part. It can also be a service or a billing item for inter-company billing.

Warehouses
A warehouse is a logically or physically defined area in which items are stored. If the storage location control is activated in the Customizing application, the warehouse can be further subdivided into warehouse zones and storage locations. The exact structure of the warehouse is defined by the warehouse organization.

Posting key
The posting key describes the posting process. Among other things, the posting key contains information about the type of action to be carried out, such as receipt, transfer, issue, revaluation, or correction. The posting key also shows whether the posting is a primary or secondary operation.

Description

The reorganization application Reorganize inventory postings is used to reorganize inventory postings that could be selected based on the parameters entered. Inventory postings can only be reorganized if both the period and the financial year are closed.

For the period in which inventory postings are to be reorganized, calculations must have been carried out for all supported inventory valuation methods. Which valuation methods are active can be viewed in the Valuation function in the Optional valuation method field in the Customizing application.

Inventory postings that have different companies as inventory owners and that have not yet been used for internal clearing are not taken into account in the reorganization.

If the Turnover statistics or the OLTP statistics for put-away/withdrawal are active in the Customizing application under the Data warehouse and statistics function, only the inventory postings that have already been taken into account in the OLTP statistics are reorganized during the reorganization.

For inventory postings where the inventory owner is not a company, the inventory postings are selected via the company of the site of the associated warehouse.

Please note that reorganized inventory postings can no longer be queried and displayed. For this reason, there may be gaps in the sequence of inventory postings in the Inventory posting query and Inventory value query applications. However, this has no influence on the values determined.

Parameters

The reorganization application has the following parameters:

Maximum run time – the maximum runtime of a reorganization application is the time span after which the reorganization application is terminated at the latest. the default value is ten minutes.

Export mode – whether and what is exported for archiving can be set via the export mode. The following export modes can be selected:

• Do not export
• Export all attributes
• Export with filter

This mode is only available if the export is possible in the Export data application. The export mode is only available if the reorganization application allows the data to be archived.

Export filter – for the export mode Export with filter, you can specify an export filter in this field that is used for archiving. The export filter can be created in the Export data application. This field is only available if the export of the business objects to be reorganized is possible via the Export data application.

Firm – in a multi-site environment, this field must be used to specify the inventory owner whose inventory postings are to be reorganized. The firm must be specified in a multi-site environment. This field is not visible in a single-site environment.

Period – this field must be used to enter an existing period that has already been closed and is in the closed financial year. The period must be specified.

Item – if required, enter one or more items as search criteria for which you want to reorganize inventory postings. If you do not enter a search criterion in this field, the reorganization of the inventory postings is not restricted to the item.

Warehouse – if required, enter one or more warehouses as search criteria for which you want to reorganize inventory postings. If you do not enter a search criterion in this field, the reorganization of inventory postings is not restricted to the warehouse.

Posting key – if required, enter one or more posting keys as search criteria for which you want to reorganize inventory postings. If you do not enter a search criterion in this field, the reorganization of the inventory postings is not restricted to the posting key.

Affected business objects

The following business object is affected by the reorganization:

Description: Inventory posting: com.cisag.app.inventory.obj.InventoryTransaction