Expected Goods Receipts
Application component: Delivery Processing
App type: SAP GUI
Description: You can use an expected goods receipt when you don’t want to use an advanced shipping notification in one of the following instances: For a purchase order or purchase order itemFor a manufacturing order or manufacturing order item You can also copy single delivery items from an expected goods receipt to an existing inbound delivery. For example, a vendor still has space on the vehicle and therefore sends you more products than are specified in the advanced shipping notification. 
Key features: If you aren’t using an advanced shipping notification in the purchase order for your delivered products, you have the following options for generating an inbound delivery:  You generate an inbound delivery in the enterprise management system. You send the inbound delivery to decentralized EWM so you can complete further steps in the goods receipt process.   Your enterprise management system sends information from the purchase order to decentralized EWM, which uses the information to create an expected goods receipt. The expected goods receipt can’t be changed, only copied. From the expected goods receipt, you can manually generate an inbound delivery, which can then be updated or changed, if necessary.   You switch to the enterprise management system from the user interface in decentralized EWM to generate an inbound delivery. You use Business Add-Ins (BAdIs) BAdI: Control for Calling ERP Inbound Delivery Transaction (/SCWM/EX_DLV_ERP_CALL) and BAdI: Override Data VL60 / Call Alternative Inbound Delivery Transaction (/SCWM/EX_DLV_ERP_CALL_CTRL) to define whether you generate an inbound delivery in the enterprise management system or locally in EWM. On the launchpad, choose Extended Warehouse Management  Delivery Processing  Inbound Delivery  Maintain Inbound Deliveries.   You choose the user interface for the inbound delivery in decentralized EWM and specify the required delivery data, without the enterprise management system checking this data against the data of the open purchase order.  If you aren’t using any inbound deliveries in production for your delivered products, you have the following options for generating an inbound delivery:  Your enterprise management system sends information from the manufacturing order to decentralized EWM, which uses the information to create an expected goods receipt. The expected goods receipt can’t be changed, only copied. From the expected goods receipt, you can manually generate an inbound delivery, which can then be updated or changed, if necessary.   In decentralized EWM, you choose the user interface for the inbound delivery and specify the required delivery data.  Using an expected goods receipt to generate an inbound delivery manually in the purchase order or manufacturing order has the following advantages:  You can execute the steps in the goods receipt process in a single system, namely the decentralized EWM system.   If the enterprise management system is temporarily unavailable, you can still execute the steps in the goods receipt process.   You generate an inbound delivery whose data has been checked by both the enterprise management system and decentralized EWM. This ensures that you’re able to post goods receipt in the enterprise management system.   As the expected goods receipt is based on the data of the open purchase order or open manufacturing order, you can use the expected goods receipt as a preview of the goods receipt.   Actions for Expected Goods Receipts   You can generate or delete an expected goods receipt. An expected goods receipt is a temporary document. When decentralized EWM no longer requires it, the system deletes the expected goods receipt. You can’t archive the expected goods receipt. When decentralized EWM deletes an expected goods receipt, the system makes the enterprise management system redefine the expected goods receipts that are still open. The expected goods receipt is only a copy of existing data, therefore you can’t change any of its data. However, you’re able to change the data in the related inbound delivery, such as changing the quantity, just as you can change it in an inbound delivery that has a preceding document. If you want to delete one or more expected goods receipts, use report Generate and Delete Expected Goods Receipts (/SCWM/ERP_DLV_DELETE). Note It is not necessary to make any updates to the expected goods receipt in order to keep the essential data of the inbound delivery consistent with the original purchase order or manufacturing order. The essential data, such as document number, product, and plant, remains identical throughout the process, therefore it is not necessary to consume system resources for updates. You can edit other data, such as the quantity, in the inbound delivery that you create by copying data from the expected goods receipt.   Decentralized EWM uses the delivery items of the expected goods receipt to calculate the expected workload (see Goods Receipt Workload).   In the Manual indicator in the header data of the inbound delivery, if the value is set to Y for Generated Manually with Predecessor, you can see whether the system has generated an inbound delivery from an expected goods receipt.     Automated Actions for Expected Goods Receipts from Manufacturing Orders   You can automate the process of generating and deleting expected goods receipts from manufacturing orders instead of running a report. When a manufacturing order (production order or process order) is processed in the enterprise management system, this triggers decentralized EWM to create, replace, or delete the related expected goods receipt. This ensures that the expected goods receipt and the production material request remain synchronized in decentralized EWM. Note If you use SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA as your enterprise management system and want to use the automated process, implement the Business Add-In Business Add-In PM/PP/PS/PI Orders Operation: UPDATE (WORKORDER_UPDATE). For more information about the implementation, see SAP Note 2811153 .   
Business roles: Warehouse Clerk (EWM)
Warehouse Clerk (Extended Warehouse Management) : 
Plans and controls processes in a simple warehouse with a strong focus on inbound, outbound, physical inventory, and maintenance of warehouse specific master data.