CONSIGNMENT title: consignment (MM) (SAP Library - Glossary)
CONSIGNMENT category: Materials Management (MM)
CONSIGNMENT explained:
A form of business in which a vendor (external supplier) maintains a stock of materials at a customer (purchaser) site.
The vendor retains ownership of the materials until they are withdrawn from the consignment stores.
Payment for consignment stock is required only when the material is withdrawn for use. For this reason, the vendor is informed of withdrawals of consignment stock on a regular basis.
More terms such as consignment in Dictionary C.
- Manual Customer Service And Billing:
- Help area of SAP for Utilities that provides a front end to manage customer specific processes. Customer service and billing supports functions including initial data creation or move-in/-out and helps consignment definition.
- Manual Correspondence History (PE):
- Help A program that evaluates correspondence from a variety of aspects. Example Display all notifications sent to a participant in a given time period consignment explain.
- Manual Complete Stock Pick:
- Help mechanism in which the complete quantity in a storage bin must be removed, regardless of whether the entire quantity is needed. A quantity is transferred back to stock. This is called the return consignment what is.
- Manual Cost Of Sales Accounting:
- Help and loss statement that matches the sales revenues to the costs or expenses involved in making the revenue (cost of sales). The expenses are listed in functional areas such as: Manufacturing consignment meaning.
- Manual Container (AP-BE):
- Help for ABAP Dictionary objects that belong together, for example, database tables and their structure definitions, or table types that are significant parts of a Billing Engine Application (BEA consignment abbreviation.
