SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

3417702 - The document type for goods receipt is WA rather than WE.

Symptom

When performing confirmation for production order to post goods receipt, the document type of the goods movement is WA(goods issue) rather than WE(goods receipt).
However, when posting the G/R via app 'Post Goods movement" , the document type is WE which is fine.

Environment

SAP S/4HANA Cloud

Cause

Which document type will be used depends on the app which was used to post the goods movement. 
If posting via production order confirmation, always the document type WA is used.
This is different from the app like 'Post Goods movement"(COGI)

Resolution

This is stanndard behavior. 

Keywords

WA, WE, document type, CO11N, confirmation , production order, process order, COR6N, goods receipt, goods issue, material document, accounting document.  , KBA , MM-IM-GR-2CL , Goods Receipt (Public Cloud) , PP-SFC-EXE-CON-2CL , Confirmation (Public Cloud) , Problem

Product

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition all versions ; SAP S/4HANA Cloud all versions