Quant

Definition
Stock of a specific product with the same characteristics in one storage
bin, resource, transportation unit (TU), or handling unit (HU). The system manages
different batches of a product as different quants.

Use
When you put a product away into an empty storage bin in Extended Warehouse
Management (EWM), the system creates a quant in this storage bin. You can
increase the quantity of a quant by adding to the existing stock. When you remove
the quantity from storage, the system automatically deletes the quant.

The system manages stock data per quant. Stock data includes the following:

 Stock key, such as product number, batch number, and party entitled to
dispose

 Stock quantities, such as physical quantity and available quantity

 Stock attributes, such as weight, volume, goods receipt date, and shelf life
expiration date

 Serial numbers

Displaying Quants

You can display stock information in the warehouse management monitor under
the Stock and Bin node. For more information, see Warehouse Management
Monitor.

The system manages quantity differences posted during physical inventory or

warehouse task confirmation at warehouse number level. To display quantity
differences, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Extended Warehouse
Management  Physical Inventory  Difference Analyzer. For more information,
see Difference Analysis.

Changing Quants

The following documents can change quants:

  A warehouse task changes the location of a quant or a partial quantity of a
quant. It does not change the total quantity of a product in the warehouse. A
warehouse task also changes quants in a packaging process when you move
an unpacked quantity to an HU or you change the content of an HU.

 A goods receipt or a goods issue changes the quantity of a quant. If the quant
does not exist yet, the system creates it with the goods receipt posting. If a
goods issue is posted for the total quantity of a quant, the quant is deleted.

 A posting change changes the stock key of a quant. It reduces the quantity of
the source quant and increases the quantity of the destination quant. It does
not change the location of a quant.

You can change the attributes of a physical stock in the warehouse management
monitor under the Stock and Bin node. You can also change the quantity and
alternative UoM of a quant manually in the monitor under Stock  Physical Stock.

Integration with SAP ERP

If the EWM warehouse number is integrated with an SAP ERP system, the total
physical stock of the warehouse number equals the total stock of all plants and
storage locations in SAP ERP integrated with the warehouse number. This stock
also includes the quantity differences at warehouse level displayed in the Difference
Analyzer.

In integration with SAP ERP, EWM communicates all goods movements (goods
issues, goods receipts, posting changes) posted in EWM to SAP ERP if they are
relevant for the ERP stock.

Example
For example a posting change from a stock type (for example, F1) to another (for
example, F2) is communicated to SAP ERP.
Note
A posting change from a normal stock to a delivery-related stock in the picking
process is not communicated to SAP ERP. Warehouse tasks are EWM-internal
processes and are not communicated to SAP ERP.

To keep the stock in EWM and SAP ERP consistent, it is not possible to post a
goods movement in SAP ERP for stock managed by EWM. When you post a goods
movement in SAP ERP (transaction MIGO), the system creates a delivery, which is
transferred and processed in EWM.

You can compare the total stock of EWM and SAP ERP for each warehouse number
and party entitled to dispose on the SAP Easy Access screen by
choosing Extended Warehouse Management  Physical Inventory  Periodic
Processing  Stock Comparison ERP. For more information, see the
documentation of the transaction in the system.