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Print Control in WM
Print Control in WM
In this section, you set the configuration data for print control.
Using the print control function, for example, you can define
Which documents (that is, for transfer orders) are to be printed for goods movements.
How these documents are to be printed (that is, which forms are to be used, how many
copies are to be printed).
Using the print control functions, you have flexible control of the printing activities in your warehouse.
This flexibility, however, means that setting the parameters is a complex task. For this reason, we
recommend that you take a look at the entire print control functions first, and then analyze the "print
situation" in your warehouse.
The number and type of settings you need for your print control depends on whether you are using
the Storage Unit Management component. If you are not using this component, you only need to set
the "standard" print control functions. However, if you are using Storage Unit Management, you need
to set both the "standard" print control functions as well as the functions for storage units.
In this section, we describe the "standard" print control functions. These control the printing of transfer
order slips.
The print control for printing specific slips for storage units is described in the chapter Define print
control for warehouses with Storage Unit Management.
You need the following settings for the "standard" print control function:
Spool Indicator
Slips are always printed within the SAP system using the Spool function. For each printout,
certain data needs to be passed on to the Spool file. Typical examples of such data are:
In the following settings (for example, the settings for the print code), you do not need to
specify these parameters each time. You only enter the spool indicator as a type of
abbreviation.
Print code
The print code defines the following information for printing transfer orders:
o Reading production data. Here reservations for staging materials for production are
read. (Both switches for reading data should be inactivated for time-critical printing.)
o Label form, label spool indicator, and the definition as to how the number of labels is
to be determined for each TO item.
The following text explains how you can assign a print code to each movement type in the
Warehouse Management system. A transfer order is always assigned to a movement type. In
this way, the print code determines the general print parameters for the transfer order.
It is possible to override the definitions for label printing in the print code, depending on the
warehouse movement.
You can also store an additional form for a combined picking list with the spool code and the
printer in order to print a combined document in parallel to single printing for each TO item.
This is only possible as an accompaniment to non-combined-printouts (indicator for combined
printing in the print code) and is otherwise ignored.
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Standard settings
All relevant print control tables are defined in warehouse number 001.
The following print programs are available:
Recommendation
Only use your own print programs if your print requirements are not met by the user exits in the
standard system. If you wish to extend the functionality of the program RLVSDR40, use the user exit
MWMD0001 to develop them. If you wish to extend the functionality of the program RLKOMM40, use
the user exit MWMD0002. For further information on enhancements through the user exit, refer to the
chapter Develop extensions.
Information on how to adapt forms in Warehouse Management is provided in the chapter Develop
forms.
Further Recommendations
1. Before you begin with table maintenance, you should first look at all tables carefully and determine
which ones you need.
2. Then maintain the tables in the prescribed sequence.