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MC44 – Inventory Turnover (2)
In MC44 – Inventory Turnover (1) I explained the concept of Inventory Turnover and how it can be used. In this post I will explain the transaction itself. The transaction is mostly self-explanatory, but there is one option of particular importance.
MC44 – Inventory Turnover (1)
Inventory Turnover is a prominent KPI in a lot of businesses. This post will give you some understanding on the concept. In another post I will give details on how the SAP report MC44 can be used to measure inventory turns and what data is used to calculate this ratio. Formula Inventory Turnover = Cost [...]
MD04 – Download planning to Excel
Sometimes a planner wishes to share the planning status of a particular material with colleagues or partners that are not SAP users. In this case it is useful to download the planning overview to Excel and perhaps pimp the lay-out with some colorful headers. To do this -from within MD04 or MD07- go to Menu [...]
Batch determination for IM
This blog offers a quick guide on how to use standard SAP Batch Determination for a material transfer. For an internal goods movement we need SAP to pick the batch from stock with the earliest Shelf Life Expiration Date (SLED). We don’t want our fresh products terminate themselves from stock… 1. For this we will [...]
Source list benefits
A good way of tightening authorization in your procurement organization is using mandatory source lists. In a previous post I explained how you can use source list in a central procurement organization together with MRP. Setting source list as a requirement for procurement you block any Purchase Order from being created if the material/vendor combination [...]
Stock in previous periods: MC.9
Stock in previous periods can be a useful indicator in analyzing your stock positions through time per material or material group. Standard SAP report MC.9 offers this functionality:
Configure label printing
Label printing can be configured in more than one way. It can be done through your regular output determination, but also through SAP’s ‘special’ label printing set up. This post is about the last. If you’re not sure what I’m talking about check out the below screen shot of the labeling settings in the material [...]
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Allow Posting in Previous Period
It’s possible that a posting needs to be done in the previous period for correction purpose. For this you can use transaction MMRV. This is one of those actions that belongs to Finance. You don’t want to mess with this without their approval (at least in production). If you ran into this post because you [...]
MRP vendor selection
It is possible to let MRP propose the preferred (or fixed) vendor for your external procurement. This is especially useful in a scenario where a central purchasing department is dictating vendor selection, but where the actual procurement decisions (quantity and timing) is done elsewhere (e.g. production dept for procurement of raw materials). This post will [...]
Distribution of Planned Independent Requirements in MRP