Category Archives: SD

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 [...]
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Unblock SD Documents

This post is an extension to a previous post on Credit Checks exceeded. When you are in a testing environment it is common that it’s difficult to quickly process sales orders and/or deliveries because the credit check is exceeded for a customer. Credit is building up, since so many sales orders and deliveries are entered [...]
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Exclude storage location from ATP

In some cases it may be necessary to exclude a storage location from ATP (and MRP). This is often the case at companies who e.g. keep inventory on materials that are stored in a well-sized showroom. How you can block a storage location for MRP, I explained in an earlier post. This will give you [...]
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Different planning views

End-users can get confused about the difference between MD04 – Stock/requirement List and MD05 – MRP List. This post will give you the answer on when to use what report and why:
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Sales Order requirement date to MRP

I’m working in a business process where a sales orders requirement date should never be transferred to MRP with the original customer’s requested date. Example: at the time of order entry ATP bounces the requested delivery date, since product is not available at the time. The system suggests a new date for confirmation. The customer [...]
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Credit Check Config Reports

Using a test environment that is due for a refresh I run into credit limits when entering sales orders more than often. Manipulating the credit check for a customer in FD32 is not always sufficient. The following reports also are useful (if not essential): RVKRED06 - Background jobs for checking blocked credit management. If an [...]
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Recovery of SD requirements for MRP

At some point in time sales and delivery requirements may get out of sync due to maintenance resulting in planning errors. Usually these errors are found when going through MD04. You will typically find deliveries (collective requirements) that cannot be traced back to original delivery documents. The proper solution for this is to run report [...]
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EU membership

Sometimes it may be necessary to build a custom solution to check the European Union-membership status of a country. For example for tax purpose you want to identify on the basis of sold-to whether the customer is in the EU. Check the country code from the address of this customer with the EU membership field [...]
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