Availability check across multiple plants

Can anyone tell me how to do availability check across multiple plants belonging to same Company Code on First Expiry First Out basis. The Sales Order should Pick up plant which has product(batch) which is near to expiry .

Dear Kalpkothari ,
Your requirement can be fulfilled using the following user exit.
USEREXIT_SOURCE_DETERMINATION
OR
USER EXITS AVAILABLE FOR AVAILABILITY CHECK
User exits in program FV45VFZZ
o   USEREXIT_ADD_FIELD_TO_HEADER
o   USEREXIT_ADD_FIELD_TO_LINE
User exits in program FV45VFZY
o   USEREXIT_DELIVERY_GROUPS
o   USEREXIT_MVERF_INIT
o   USEREXIT_QUOTA_KEY_VALUE
User exits in program RV03VFZZ
o   USEREXIT_AVAILABILITY_IN
o   USEREXIT_AVAILABILITY_OUT
o   USEREXIT_DARA_REFRESH
o   USEREXIT_PLANT_SELECTION
Thanks & Regards,
Hegal Charles

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Availability check across several plants

Hi there,
I am an SD consultant and I try to see which solution we can implement for the following need: we want to check the stock at 2 different plants (belonging to 2 different company codes) as they were 1 plant. Meaning we want to do availability check across 2 plants. And when creating the delivery, the system should consider all batches from the 2 plants.
Is it possible to do this in SAP R/3 (via user exits)? Is it possible to do this in SAP APO?
Best regards,
Benjamin van Eeckhout

Hi Frank,
Thanks for your answer. If I understand you correctly, you need to define the plant and batch in the access sequence. This is not going to help us then, as we don't know which plant the system will have to look first at. Is it possible to define a rule, saying for example: FIFO in plants 1 and 2 - without specifying which one to look at first.
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Availability Check at Multiple Plants for the Sales Order line Item.

Hi Friends,
We are having two plants, Plant A and Plant B. Plant A is used to issue the orders to the vendors and stock them, while Plant B is used to manufacture the Product and Stock.
When we create the sales order, we want to check the Current Stock Plus Incomming Purchase order stock for plant A and also check current stock plus Production orders in plant B.
for ex if the current stock is 100 in Plant A and No physical stock in Plant B but there are some production orders for 400 Qty which will be ready in 1 week.
If i create a sales order for 500 qty which is scheduled for delivery 10 days later. then we want to commit to the customer ( Looking at both the plants stock situation ) the system should check the stock availability for both the plants and automatically create two different line items , Line item 1 for plant A and line item 2 for plant b.
I know there is a user exit for Multiple plant selection USEREXIT_PLANT_SELECTION in program RV03VFZZ. The Description of the USer exit says ( This user exit may be used to provide a list of plants for which availability is to be checked) But we have never used this one. Will this user exit do exactly what i want ??
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Hi
I dont know about the userexit which you are referring about
But this is not available in R3 The system makes a Availability Check only in the plant which has got determined in the item details shipping tab and stops there
The same is available in APO
If there are 2 plants say 1000 and 2000
In sales order the plant determined is 1000 and there is no stock
In R3 system stops there
But in APO system checks the plant 2000 and if stocks are available it creates an STO in the background automatically from 2000 to 1000 if configured accordingly
Even if the material is maintained in 10 plants the system will make a Availability Check at all 10 plants and act accordingly
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APO gATP vs R/3 ATP - To check sales order ATP across multiple plants

Hi There,
I am trying to evaluate gATP functionality for SD sales orders.
The primary requirement is to have sales order ATP checking take place across multiple plants.
E.G.
Sales order line is entered for qty 100
60 is available in plant A, 40 is available in plant B
System checks both plants and creates 2 lines - one for delivery from plant A and one for delivery from plant B
(we are currently heading down the road of writing ABAP to do this 'multi-plant' check in R/3 but the more complex the requirements get the more interested I am in understanding more about APO/gATP)
I would like to understand the benefit of implementing APO / gATP as opposed to using standard R/3 ATP and perhaps writing custom ABAP code to search for inventory across multiple plants.
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I have looked here but not much clear help:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_scm50/helpdata/en/26/c2d63b18bc7e7fe10000000a114084/frameset.htm
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Niall

Hi Niall
you are probably looking at RBATP (Rule based ATP). Look at transaction /sapapo/rba04 in APO where you develop your own location and product substitution rules. Going down an ABAP road in R/3 may work short-term but not long-term as the requirements may get more complex.
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MRP across multiple plants

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I have a scenario where I have multiple plants. During Production of some finished products, I have to procure some material from anothere plant. For this I have used Special procurement key in MRP 2 to throw requirement to corresponding plant.
As Per MRP run, I Hope to use NEUPL run once a week for the corresponding plant. Do I Have to run MRP seperately for each plant so that MRP requirement for semi finished products are also raised in corresponding plant. Will in that case help to group together multiple plants under scope of planning or an MRP area.
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Brian,
I am looking for a way to run MRP across multiple plants as if it was one plant.
Well, that phrase can mean different things to different people. In general, though, SAP ERP does not support this requirement.
I guess you overlooked the rules of engagement for this forum, which state that you should first search the forums for answers before posting a question. There are lots of workarounds, using Special Procurement and/or MRP Areas. Just search the ERP PP and ERP MM forums. This topic has been discussed extensively.
There are also several third party products available that can probably meet your requirements as well. Be advised that the purchase price of these products are substantial, and the implementations are not trivial. Many shops are unwilling to invest the money and effort into advanced planning systems, and end up just working with ERP planning, using workarounds, enhancements, and business process changes.
SAP is also marketing one of these advanced planning products as a 'solution extension', that they are calling Supply Chain Response Management (SCRM). This software was developed by the third party software company ICON, and SAP now has established a relationship with ICON. You can see info on the software at
http://www.sap.com/solutions/solutionextensions/supply-chain-response-management/index.epx
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How can we set in VA01/VA02, such that user is only allowed to have availability check on certain plants.. and not allowed to check other plants..

One option is through Object assignment in PFCG, this can be achieved. The other method is dont maintain that storage location in MMSC. In fact, you can also consider sale order user exit.
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I need to do availability check for multiple materials. Currently i am using function module AVAILABILITY_CHECK within a loop.For my purpose I could find this particular FM as well as BAPI "BAPI_MATERIAL_AVAILABILITY" however both of this options can not be used for more then one materials at a time.
I want to take out the loop from the code and get multiple materials be ckecked at once for availability. If AVAILABILTY_CHECK FM can be used for multiple materials, please post the usage.
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Use the BAPI. Even if such a function existed, it would still perform the relevant internal logic required for checking by material, so you wouldn't gain anything.

Availability Check in Different Plant

Hi All,
By use of User Exit, Is it possible to Run the Availability check in different Plant where as the Delivering Plant in the Sales Order is Different?
I knew, the question is not Logical. We have requirement for this scenario.
Rgds,
Senni.B

You can try with User exit USEREXIT_AVAIL_CHECK_CREDIT exists in Include MV45AFZF which I am not sure, whether you can achieve. Perhaps, if you have activated credit management, then this would be useful in defining the availability check.
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Availability check across plants?

Hi Gurus,
Can we do availability check in sales order across 7-8 plants?
ie. there are plants-1010,1011,1012,1013,1014,1015,1016 exist.
if for material "X" oldest batch(about to expire) exist in plant 1015 but we have entered plant 1010 in Sales Order,
system should propose that plant & oldest batch in SO or Delivery.
We are not using APO. is this possible in standard R/3 with availability check features???
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Amol

Dear Amol,
Seems like we have to use the following user-exit for the same.
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Please check the forum as i remember reading a similar scenario , solved using material determination.But not sure.
Check and revert back.
Thanks & Regards,
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Avaiability check across All Plants for all company codes

Hi
How to Check ATP in Availability Check in Sales Order across plants in all the company codes.
Currently its showing me only one company code plants when i click on other Plants Button in Availability control
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Hello Amol,
In sales orders, when you write a item material SAP makes it an automatic determination for the plant who belongs to master data information. The first step for SAP search strategy is find over the Customer Material Information, if it does not have information it makes the second step and search information over the Ship-to party, and the third step its search in the master material. If it does not find information, SAP does not propose a plant for that item material.
Taken this process in consideration and for this reason, the item material made the Availability Check for one particular plant.
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Message was edited by: Ulf Petzel

Hello Ulf,
Thanks for your reply, the actual issue is..
There are two companies; both are using the same material.
We are building a central system and synchronizing the materials from all companies.
While synchronization, we found that revision level are different across companies.
1.      Should we avoid using revision level in our organization?
2.      If I can find the validity of a material with change no + material + plant, then what is the purpose
         of the revision level?
3.     What will be the impact, if we remove the entire revision level across all companies?
4.     In real world, across different organizations, how revision level is synchronized across companies or at least in the central system.
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Hi,
When the rescheduling runs, is it possible via the standard system to look for inventory in mulitple plants and change the plant (where the inventory is available) on the sales order item accordingly?
Any thoughts would be highly appreciated.
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Not in standard SAP.
You need to write a progrma to do that (I would limit to unconfirmed items only).
But it's not an easy task as material may have different availability control settings in different plants and you in fact may select not the best option...
I believe tools like i2 can do that. Try to check if APO can help here as well.
By writing your own program you may just spend time trying to re-invent the weel (re-create tool like APO or i2) and it's not an easy task

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hi
u can avoid by choosing the recurrcive allowed for BOM can avoid it
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What is availability check concept how it is used in SAP

hi friends,
i don't know what is availity check,how is it used and how it should be configured,please help me.

Availability Check in Sales and Distribution Processing
There are three types of availability check:
     Check on the basis of the ATP quantities
     Check against product allocation
     Check against planning
In Customizing, you determine whether an availability check is to be carried out against the ATP quanitity or against planning. The check against product allocations is controlled in the material master and elsewhere in the system.
Check on the Basis of the ATP Quantities
The ATP quantity (ATP = Available To Promise) is calculated from the warehouse stock, the planned inward movements of stock (production orders, purchase orders, planned orders) and the planned outward movements of stock (sales orders, deliveries, reservations). This type of check is performed dynamically for each transaction, taking into account the relevant stock and planned goods movements with or without replenishment lead time. Planned independent requirements are not taken into account here.
Check against Product Allocation
Product allocation facilitates period-based distribution of products for certain customers or regions. As of Release 3.0F, you can carry out an availability check against product allocation. This ensures, for example, that when production is low, the first customer does not get the full amount, resulting in following sales orders not being confirmed or being confirmed far too late.
Check against planning
The check against planning is performed against independent requirements which are usually created for an anonymous market rather than being customer-specific (for example, in the strategy Planning without assembly, when production occurs only up to the stocking level). The planned independent requirements result from demand program planning and are used for planning expected sales quantities independent of orders
Controlling the Availability Check in Sales and Distribution Processing
You control the availability check using general and SD-specific control features.
General Control Features
The following control elements need to be maintained in Customizing and in the material master record:
     Strategy group
The allowed planning strategies (main strategy and further possible strategies) are combined in the strategy group. As of Release 3.0, the strategy group is specified in the material master record in the MRP 1 Screen. In Customizing, strategy groups are assigned, dependent on plant, to MRP groups. If the strategy group is missing in the material master record, it is determined on the basis of the MRP group, if it has been maintained.
Up to Release 3.0, the strategy group is determined on the basis of the MRP group
     MRP group
The MRP group combines materials from the point of view of material requirements planning. This enables you to control planning for these materials in a particular way using, for example, the strategy group, consumption mode and planning period. You enter the MRP group in the material master in the MRP 1 screen. The strategy group is determined from the MRP group.
     Planning Strategy
The planning strategy specifies the requirements type for planning and customer requirements. This represents the decisive control feature for the interaction between Production Planning and Sales and Distribution.
     MRP type and item category
If no requirements type is found using the planning strategy, the system tries to determine a corresponding requirements type on the basis of the MRP type and the item category.
Until 3.0C, determination of the requirements type via planning strategy has taken priority. This is not always the best option, however, as the following example will show. A requirements type is determined for a material, which causes availability to be checked against planning. In consignment stock processing, however, availability should be checked against stock. Until 3.0C the availability check had to be deactivated in these cases. As of Release 3.0C, you can determine how the requirements type is to be determined for each transaction by maintaining the Source field in Determination of requirement types using transaction in Customizing.
     Requirements type
The various requirements are identified by their requirements type. The requirements type refers to the requirements class and its control features.
     Requirements Class
The requirements class contains all control features for planning such as relevance for planning, requirements planning strategy and requirements consumption strategy. In addition, it is specified at a global level whether an availability check is to take place for the material in the sales and distribution documents on the basis of the ATP quantity (ATP = available to promise) and whether requirements are to be passed on. A finer degree of control can be obtained for sales documents using the schedule line category.
Control Features Specific to Sales and Distribution
The following SD-specific control features need to be maintained in Customizing:
     Checking group
The checking group controls whether the system is to create indivdual or collective requirements in sales and shipping processing. In addition, a material block for the availability check with transfer of requirements can be set here. The checking group can also be used to deactivate the availability check. This option was created especially for the assembly order so that when the bill of material is exploded in the assembly order, the individual components, if necessary, can be classified as non-critical parts as far as procurement is concerned.
The checking group specifies in combination with the checking rule the scope of the availability check. It is proposed in the material master record on the basis of the material type and the plant, and copied into the sales and distribution documents.
     Checking Rule
You use the checking rule to control the scope of the availability check for each transaction in sales and distribution. You also specify whether the check should be carried out including or excluding replenishment lead time. The individual checking rules define by transaction, which stock and inward and outward movement of goods should be taken into account for the availability check.
     Schedule line category
You can control with the schedule line category whether an availability check and transfer of requirements should be carried out in the sales documents. The possible settings for this at schedule line level are dependent on the settings in the requirements class which is determined from the requirements type of the material.
     Delivery item category
The delivery item category can be used to control whether an availability check takes place in deliveries.
Prerequisites
An availability check can only be carried out if the following prerequisites have been fulfilled:
     The control elements described above for the availability check must be maintained in Customizing for Sales and the relevant assignments made to the sales transactions
     The availability check must be switched on at requirements class level and - for the availability check in the sales documents - at schedule line category level
     A requirements type must exist by which the requirements class can be found
     A plant must be defined. It can either be proposed from the customer or material master record or can be entered manually in the document.
     A checking group must be defined in the material master record on the Sales/plant data screen in the Availability check field
Timing of the Availability Check in Sales and Distribution Processing
When you create an order, the system determines the required materail availability date on the basis of the customers requested delivery date. On this date, you must begin picking, packing, labeling, and loading the goods. Therefore, this is the date of significance for requirements planning on which the availability should be checked.
The following data is required for determining this date:
     Route from the shipping point to the ship-to party location
     Shipping point from which the goods are issued
     Loading group from the material master record
     Weight group determined from the order using the order quantity
Scheduling
This data, which you have already entered in the system, means that scheduling can occur automatically. Since scheduling is carried out backwards from the requested delivery date, it is also called backward scheduling. If backward scheduling determines that the preparation for the shipping activities should have been started already to meet the customer's requested delivery date, the system then starts forward scheduling automatically from the current date.
Scope of the Availability Check in Sales and Distribution Processing
The following elements can be included in the availability check:
     Stock
o     safety stock
o     stock in transfer
o     quality inspection
o     blocked stock
     Inward/Outward movement of goods
o     purchase orders
o     purchase requisitions
o     planned orders
o     production orders
o     reservations
o     dependent reservations
o     dependent requirements
o     sales requirements
o     delivery requirements
Requirements in sales and distribution (sales requirements and delivery requirements) result from all transactions which forward a requirement to Materials Management (MM) or to Production Planning (PP). For example, this could include sales orders or deliveries and quotations as well. Sales and distribution requirements reduce existing stock or inward movements of stock on the material availability date to ensure that other outward movement of stock elements cannot access the quantity reserved in this way.
Requirements relevant for Sales and distribution are created in Sales and Distribution, whereas other elements in this list are created in Materials Management or in Production Planning.
Defining the Elements to be Included in Check
A checking rule is assigned to each transaction. This rule in combination with the checking group controls the scope of the availability check. You can use the checking rules in Customizing for Sales to specify for the various transactions which of the elements listed above should be included in the availability check.
For trading goods it does not make sense to include planned or production orders, for example, in the availability check. However, for products manufactured by your company these orders should be included in the check.
For transactions such as make-to-order production, consignment or returnable packaging processing that create special stock, the availability check is performed against special stock.
If it is defined by the checking rules that both sales and delivery requirements are taken into account in the availability check in sales documents but only delivery requirements are taken into account in the availability check in deliveries, there is a danger that quantities reserved in the sales documents are considered to be available by the availability check in the deliveries. This can lead to sales documents becoming backlogged.
Reactions to the Availability Check in Sales Documents
If the goods ordered by the customer are not available on the requested date, the system branches automatically during sales document processing to a further screen where delivery proposals are offered for selection. The system determines these proposals on the basis of the availability situation. This screen also provides you with information on the scope of the check, the current ATP quantity, and the availability situation across all plants.
Availability Control
On the Availability Control screen, you can choose between the following delivery proposals:
     One-time delivery on the requested delivery date
In this section, the system checks whether the requested delivery date can be kept to. If stock of the material is available to make a delivery on the requested delivery date, the stock quantity is confirmed here. If there is no stock available, confirmed quantity zero is displayed.
To copy this data into the sales document, select Edit One-time delivery.
     Complete delivery
In this section, the system checks whether there will be sufficient stock for complete delivery at a later date:
o     If there is sufficient stock available at a later date to cover the required quantity in the sales document, the system proposes the date here.
o     If the system determines that complete delivery cannot be made at a later date, no date is proposed in this section.
When availability is checked including replenishment lead time, the date which is proposed in this section is the date on which the replenishment lead time period ends if the stock before the end of replenishment lead time does not cover the order quantity.
When availability is checked excluding replenishment lead time, the system bases its calculations on the stock and the planned inward movements of stock.
To copy this data into the sales document, select Edit Complete delivery
     Delivery proposal
In this section, the system checks whether and for which dates partial deliveries can be made. Partial deliveries are displayed for different dates. These dates are based on the planned inward and outward movements of stock.
During an availability check which takes replenishment lead time into account, the date on which replenishment lead time ends is displayed if insufficient stock means that no partial deliveries can be made before replenishment lead time ends.
During an availability check which does not take replenishment lead time into account, the system displays the dates on which partial deliveries can be made with the available stock.
To copy this proposal into the sales document, select Edit Delivery proposal
The dates displayed in the sections complete delivery and delivery proposal are determined from the material availability date using forward scheduling and represent actual delivery dates.
Availability Across Plants
You can display the availability situation in the various plants for which a material is maintained. To do this, proceed as follows:
1.     Select Goto Other plants on the availability control screen.
The dialog box Plant Selection appears. All plants for which the material is maintained are displayed.
2.     Mark the plants in which you want to check availability and select Check plants.
You reach the Availability Check: Overview screen. The requirements quantity and the quantity which could be confirmed as well as some additional information is displayed in a separate line for each plant you selected.
3.     If you require detailed information on the availability check for a particular line, select the relevant line and select Edit Check availability.
You reach the Date proposals dialog box where the detailed data is displayed.
4.     You can select a plant with sufficient quantity for confirmation to be copied automatically into the Overview screen. Select the appropriate line and select Edit Copy plant.
Using the user exit USEREXIT_PLANT_SELECTION in the Include LV03VFZZ you can make a preselection of the allowed plants. If you use this option, the Plant selection dialog box does not appear and the availability check is performed immediately for the allowed plants. If, on the basis of information resulting from the availability check, you want to deliver from a plant other than the one specified in the item, you must at present enter this plant manually in the item. In a later release, however, you will be able to select the plant directly from the list of plants.
Displaying the ATP Quantities
If you want to display the current ATP situation on the availability control screen, select Goto Availability overview.
Displaying the Scope of the Check
If you want to display the scope of the check (stock and inward/outward movements of goods taken into account during the availability check) from the availability control screen, select Goto Scope of check.
Delivery Agreements in the Customer Master Record
A customer may react in different ways to the fact that a complete delivery can not be provided for the required delivery date. You can define in the customer master record, the way a customer reacts to the inability to meet the requirements represented by the key data.
     The customer wants complete delivery of all items by the requested delivery date or at a later date.
The complete delivery indicator is copied into the sales document from the customer master record. To find it, select Header Business data on an overview screen or a header screen. You find the indicator in the Shipping section.
If the complete delivery indicator is set in the sales document, the individual items are automatically correlated when the document is saved if the schedule lines exist for various dates (that is, a delivery group is automatically created for the sales document items and the latest delivery date within this group becomes the group delivery date). For further information on delivery groups, see Combining Sales Document Items for Delivery.
     The customer only allows a certain number of partial deliveries for each item.
The partial delivery indicator and the number of partial deliveries are copied into the sales document item from the customer master record. To find the indicators:
1.     Go to the Business Data screen for this item.
2.     Select Edit Shipping details.
The indicators are found in the Shipping section.
Performing the Availability Check Again
Usually, an availability check is only performed when a sales document is created. If quantities or dates are changed in the document and availability needs to be checked again, the check is performed again automatically . However, you can also initiate an availability check manually.
Automatic Checks
In the following situations, a new availability check is automatically carried out:
     Quantity change
     Date change (requested delivery date, material availability date)
     Change to the fixed data
     After new delivery scheduling (for example, the route or shipping point has been changed)
     Change of plant
     Change of storage location or batch
     Removal of blocks which affect requirements
     Removal of reasons for rejection
Initiating a Check Manually
In the sales document, you can initiate a new availability check manually. If you want to perform an availability check for all items in a sales document, select Sales document Check availability on the header screen. If you want to check availability for an individual item, select Edit Item availability.
Fixing Quantities and Dates in Sales Documents
If the availability check for an item determines that the item cannot be delivered fully on the requested delivery date, and, as a result one or more schedule lines have to be created for later delivery dates, the customer can decide whether to accept these delivery dates and quantities.
You can record the customer's decision either by setting an indicator in the Fixed date and qty field or by leaving this field blank. The field is displayed both on the schedule line overview screen and on the availability screen.
Customer Accepts the Schedule Line Proposal
If the customer accepts the schedule lines which are proposed by the system, mark the Fixed date and qty field. The system then transfers the requirements for the schedule lines to material requirements planning.
Customer Requires Goods Earlier
If the customer requires the goods earlier than the date that the system can confirm after the availability check, leave the Fixed date and qty field blank. The system then only passes on the requirements for the requested delivery date and does not take the quantities and dates confirmed by the system after the availability check into account. In this case, it is assumed that the requested delivery date can be kept to because, for example, additional production capacity may become free. The system only confirms the sales order once the entire order quantity can be delivered on the requested delivery date. In the subsequent delivery processing, the sales order is only considered to be completed when the entire order quantity has been delivered or when all partial delivery agreements have been fulfilled.
A fixed item is considered to be completed once the entire confirmed quantity (which can be smaller than the originally requested order quantity)has been delivered. Therefore, it does not make sense to fix the confirmed quantity to 0 as the item is considered to be completed from the start.
During rescheduling, the fixed quantities and dates are no longer taken into account.
Blocking Confirmation of Quantities in Sales Documents
In Customizing, using Block transfer of requirements by delivery block, you can specify that certain delivery blocks in the sales document header also block the confirmation of order quantities.
If you enter such a delivery block in a sales order header, the system confirms the available quantity to show you the delivery options. If you save the document, however, the confirmed quantities are not saved. Your company could block confirmation for a customer if this customer's credit worthiness was questionable. The sales order in this case is not only classed as unconfirmed, it is also blocked for delivery.
Thus, no stock is reserved. The stock is still available for other customers. Although the order quantities are not confirmed, the system still transfers the requirements to material requirements planning. It is assumed that the delivery block will be removed at some point. The automatic transfer of requirements means that the order quantity can be confirmed at a later point in time
Source: SAP Library
Hope this is of some help.

Availability check

Dear All
We have a requirement that if a material say stock is 10 in unrestricted then we create a STO for 10 units then in MMBE say in a plant 1000 still unrestricted will be 10 but in that details there will be 10 units STCK TRPSTORDER REL (under this heading) 10 units is appearing
STO happening from plant 1000 to plant 1001
When an incoming sales order comes for that same material in the same plant then system allocates these 10 units to that order which we dont want to happen in the plant 1000
But when we initially make a sales order instead of STO if the unrestriced is 10 then it shows in sales order stocks (under this heading) 10 units is appearing in the plant 1000
When an incoming sales order comes then system does not allocate these 10 units to that order and says no stock which is our requirement
*In Simple stocks are getting reserved for open sales orders but not for open STOs with availability check in a plant*
This we want it for STO after creating PO itself
Note if the delivery is generated for STO then system says no stock for the incoming order which is fine
In OVZ9
1.include sales requirements is ticked
2. include rel ordd requirements (for STO is consideration is marked as X)
3.Include stock in transfer is ticked
Friends Expecting your valuable comments and suggestions
Stocks should be reserved for STO how do i control this in OVZ9?
Hope i am clear about my Requirement Any clarifications needed?
Regards
Raja

Dear Lakshmipathi
Thanks for the reply But that doesnt solve.Already checked there
But we have to control SD settings only in OVZ9 as the requirement is to check availability for sales order creation only
Scenario 1
In MMBE Plant is 1000 Material is A unrestricted stock is 10
We create a sales order no 1 for material A for 10 units in this plant and saved
Now in MMBE unrestricted also 10 in that details Sales reqirements also 10
When we create a next sales order no 2 system tells no stock and gives confirmed qty as zero which is fine (in OVZ9 include sales requiremts is ticked and hence system reserves stocks for order no 1 and says 0 stocks for order no 2)
Scenario 2
Plant is 1000 Material is A unrestricted stock is 10
We create a STO for material A for 10 units from this plant 1000 to be sent to another plant 1001
STO created and saved
Now in MMBE unrestricted also 10 in that details Stock trnasport resevation also 10
So as of now the stocks are reserved for that STO
Now if an incoming sales order if comes system allocates these stocks to that sales order which we dont want to happen
In Simple stocks are getting reserved for open sales orders but not for open STOs with availability check in a plant
In OVZ9 in the inward and outward movements tab there is a control box called incl.rel.order.reqs which is set to X and the F1 explanation tells that it will take to STO also into consideration
But actually it is not happening
Include sales requirements is working but not this one
Has anyone undergone this scenario ?
Regards
Raja

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