Shelf Life Issue

Question

Dear SAP,
We have a scenario where we maintain the shelf life of a finished product is for 24 month, which we maintained in Master data also.But some time we know that the shelf life will be less as per maintain in master date, so will change the shelf life to 20 month, but later after doing GR it come back to 24 month which should not be happen, it should remain 20 month only for that batch.So how we can track in Standard SAP.
Regards
Asif

Answer 1

Hi Asif, I got it now! I try to explain.
This is because expiration date check setting in SPRO. The path is as below
SPRO > Logistic - General > Batch Management > Shelf Life Expiration Date (SLED) > Set Expiration Date Check
When I refer to F1 help, I get below information
For a further goods receipt for a batch, the shelf life expiration date entered or determined with the movement is compared with the one from the batch master record. If the dates differ, a warning or error message is issued, depending on the system settings.
If the goods receipt is posted despite any warning, the old shelf life expiration date in the batch master record is overwritten by the new one
So, system is executing the check for calculating expiry date at the time of GR. You can do either of following in your case
Change the expiry date in batch master after goods receipt
Or
Modify the SPRO setting. You can explore the possibilities specified under above path
Or
You can set up customer exit to calculate expiry date based upon your logic.
Anand