[Link] SAP Batch Determination made easy

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SAP Batch Determination made easy

Posted on September 5, 2008 | Category: SAP

Recently a colleague encountered the following problem:

His customer tracks perishable products that are bought / inventory managed / sold using the SAP functionality Batch Management (LO-BM). The products have a shelf life and therefore a “Use by/Expiration” date. His problem was that he was able to correctly update the characteristic “Expiration date” of the batch, but was not able to select batches during the delivery stage, based on the “Expiration date” – i.e batches that were still fit for use.

So here is a tutorial on how to select batches during the delivery (but it could be applied to any batch search requirement) for which the shelf life has not expired. It has to be noted that SAP covers all kinds of scenario.

- It might be company practice to ship out the door products with a minimum shelf life of X days
- It might be that a specific customer requires a product with a different, longer minimum remaining shelf life
- It might also be that products that are shipped to a specific country require a yet again different minimum shelf life

It might be that you require all three or a logical combination of all three. SAP will easily cover all those requirements and more.

This tutorial only covers the batch determination process in SD, but once you get the jist of it you should be able to apply this to any other module where that function is covered. I also assume that you have set up your system in such way that you are able to have products batch managed.

[SD] Batch split items in invoice

The solution is provided in SAP note 77414

https://forums.sdn.sap.com/message.jspa?messageID=7538835

fyi, -While Creating Invoice for Batch split material, System copies all the batch items including main item, where as, system should copy/combine all batch split items into Main item, batch split items should not be shown in different line items in Invoice.- ?

In copy control from the delivery type to billing type VTFL, for the item category maintain billing quantity as G. This will ensure that the batches are clubbed into single line item. In Item Category of the Billing, goto VOV7 – maintain billing relevance as “M”.

• Batch Management in STO, after creating delivery via VL10F, wrt: STO order, automatic batch determination is not happening for the batch managed material. But for the same Material, from SD it is working fine. System displays message as “ No Batch search procedure assigned to the order type”

In V/C5, batch has to assigned to the determination procedure in combination of Sales Org / Dist Channel / Division / Order type – Search Procedure / Check batch indicator.

※Sales area should be taken from STO-ME22n, Shipping tab at item level.

※Order type should be, default Order type from the specific Delivery type eg: NL-

Item Category for STO main item : NLN / batch item: ULN, both has to be marked for automatic batch determination indicator in IMG-LG-Batch Mgmt – Batch det’n & Batch check – Automatic batch det’n in SD – Activate Auto. Batch det’n for Delivery Item Cat’s

After following above procedure, system displays error message as “ Item Category is not maintained”

-Tcode:0184-Delivery item cat det’n Maintain entries as “Del type/Item cat group / Item Usage / High. Item Cat- Default, Item cat” Eg: NL – NORM – CHSP -= ULN

CHSP – Batch split item.

NOTE: Copy Controls from Delivery – billing at item level – ULN should not be maintained.