SAP Mental Notes

Configure label printing

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Label printing can be configured in more than one way. It can be done through
your regular output determination, but also through SAPs special label
printing set up. This post is about the last. If youre not sure what Im talking
about check out the below screen shot of the labeling settings in the material
masters Plant data 1 tab:

Label settings in Material Master

Here I can specify a label type and a label form. What these do exactly you
can read further on. Before I move on to the customizing settings involved in
label printing, let me warn you that this functionality does not go together with
labels designed in SmartForm at all! Also we chose for SapScript label since
we want to print on Avery A4 label pages. SmartForm does not support this.
For this example I will set up label printing for goods receipt in MIRO.

Step 0 Print Label dashboard

IMG > Material Management > Inventory Management and Physical Inventory
> Print Control > Set label printout
Print Label Dashboard

The screenshot clearly shows the five step approach to setting this function
up. No need repeating the button names. Lets start with the first step.

Step 1 Application Object

Application Object

In this screen you set up three variables. Best would be to start with copying
the standard object to a new object starting with a Z. Oh blasphemy, I didnt do
this for my example! For the sake of it, well move on:

Text ID: If you can, stick to the standard text ID.

Text Name: You can enter a free text in here. When you create a text in the
next step the text will be given the name entered here.

Form: Let the developer copy the standard form and enter the new name in
here.
Save and return to the dashboard. Onwards to the second step.

Step 2 Maintain label text

Here you maintain the data that should be passed on to the label form. The
Text Object name is the name of the object in the previous step (in this case
MM07ET). This is not the Text Name or the Text ID!

Label text

The text itself can be fixed texts, but also variable data like material number
(entered as &MATNR&) or batchnumber (&CHARG&). Make sure your editor
is set to SapScript editor. If this is not the case switch to this mode through the
menu.

SapScript Label text

The form is designed such that it knows where to place these data elements.
This is developers work.

Step 3 Label Type

Label type is an indicator to how the materials are created. There is no
controlling behind the indicator itself. You can define it freely. This is one of the
two variables that you assign to the material masters Plant date 1 tab.

Step 4 Label Form

This is meant to distinguish between sizes and layout of the labels. Just check
if one of the three standard settings look applicable to you. As in step 3, the
variables themselves do not determine anything. In combination with the label
type it will determine how label quantities are determined. See next step.

Step 5 Determine quantities

This is an interesting feature. Here you can set for any combination of Label
Type and Label Form how the label quantities are determined: procurement
quantities (e.g. pallets), stock keeping quantities (e.g. boxes) or manual
determined. In this example I picked the manual determined, configured
through Number of GR/GI slips to be printed (MSEG-WEANZ). You can
display this field in transaction MIGO and enter any number for the number of
copies you like.

Label quantities

Now your label control is set up.

Output type

Last thing to check is the Output Type. Standard Output Type for Label
Printing is WEE1 (GR Label Vers 1).
Output Type WEE1

There is no need to change anything here. It shows here that label printing is a
two step approach with regards to output determination. First Output Type
WEE1 refers to Form MM07ET. MM07ET is the Object Name from step 1.
Second Object MM07ET links to the Form as copied by the developer and set
up in step 1.

Other settings

Make sure that Output Determination is set up for printing the labels (MN21).

Finally the Material Master should include the Label Type and Label Form as
set up in the Customizing steps.