Any manufacturing or retail business needs to take a physical count of its stock on a periodic basis. Today, the topic for our discussion is how physical stock taking can be enabled in SAP R/3 environment. In SAP,
normally four methods of stock taking are allowed viz.

- fixed day stock taking
- perpetual stock taking
- sample audit stock taking; and
- cycle counting

To make a count of physical inventory, a stocktaking voucher can be generated in SAP, which lists the stocks at the warehouse level by storage location. However, a couple of things need to be kept in mind
before taking physical inventory in SAP. In SAP, there might be a time difference between posting a goods movement, and its physical storing, there may be a difference between the book stock and the actual
inventory count. To avoid this, it is recommended that stocktaking be blocked from postings when taking physical stocks. In SAP, once the results of the physical count of inventory are entered, the posting block is automatically removed.

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