Can the material date of manufacture be captured

Question

HI
currently, the date on SAP is the date we capture the receipt against the PO for a raw material,my  question is  related to using another field so that you can capture the manufacturing date and run a report to track the dates of stock on hand.
this is for raw materials procured externally for which i want to track the manufacturing dates and want to run a report to see what is on stock.
regards,
moumita
Edited by: MOUMITASARKAR on Sep 9, 2011 2:24 PM

Answer 1

Hi,
Inorder to capture Date of Manufacturing you dont have any standard by SAP to have a tab in PO,
But it can be achieved while taking GR of a material.To get this you need to follow few steps.
Firstly create a material with *Batch management active and Min. Rem. Shelf Life and Total shelf life
Now create a Class in CL02 and assign the standard characteristic LOBM_VFDAT which calculates the Expiration date, shelf life
And asign this above created class in classification view of your material
Now if you create a PO after all above settings and do GR then while doing MIGO you can see Date of Manufacture in Batch tab.
Here you can give the manufacturing date of the material so that system will calculate the shelf life expiry date by itself with the sort rule which has to be created in Tcode CU70.
In creation of sortrule in CU70 you can define whether you want FIFO or LIFO of isuing the material.
Thanks.