Commodities on Stock Function?

Has anyone figured out a way to check basic commodity prices (oil/barrel, precious metals/troy oz, grain/bushel, etc) on the Stock function on their iPhone? I've tried everything I could think of, but since they don't have a company name or stock trading symbol, no luck.

yeah, I have crude oil futures displaying on my iPhone stock app.
This is how it works...
Crude Oil is CL
Then there is a month indicator.
Jan = F
Feb = G
Mar = H
Apr = J
May = K
Jun = M
Jul = N
Aug = Q
Sep = U
Oct = V
Nov = X
Dec = Z
Then the two digit year.
Soooo the crude oil selling right now is CLV08 for October delivery
The iPhone will find it, but you have to tell it what exchange you're looking in, and Crude trades on NYMEX....
SO simply plug this in - CLV08.NYM and that's it. At the end of the month, you delete that one, and plug in CLX08.NYM for November.
As far as the other ones, they work the same way, but don't know their symbols, so I'll leave you and google to figure that out.

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does anyone know what function modules does SRM have for:
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- checking if material has availability in stock?
Thanks in advance,
Cristiano Soares

Hi Cristiano,
Regarding to if material has availability, I think that one possibility would be use via RFC the BAPI_MATERIAL_AVAILABILITY module function. You could implement a BADI (for example BBP_DOC_CHECK_BADI) and you could include there the RFC call.
I hope this is useful.
BR
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Both negative stock and stock below safety stock create procurement proposals - internal or external.
But what is the difference between them?
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Hi,
NEGATIVE STOCK:
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Negative stock function is not relevant for the procurement, It can only use for the excess qty issue to to the production than stock qty. System will not create PR .
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Cust: In customizing negative stock are must allow for a valuation area, Plant and Storage location level.
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Best Regards,
KING

Hi,
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Dynamic Method:
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We have successfully created an SNP aggregated planning scenario which uses CTM to plan purchase requisitions and planned orders at the aggregated product level. The disaggregation to the sub-product level is working as well.
We have one issue.
We would like to be able to use the Product View (SAPAPO/RRP3) to view the sales order and stock information for both the aggregated products and the sub-products.
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Mylene

Hi,
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Hi Guru's,
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Hi,
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After that if you try to do goods receipt of say 20 eaches, of total value 20.00 material will have original status as you started. But if the value is different say 25.00, then moving average will be arrived from $15.
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Edited by: Kishore Kumar Galla on Mar 9, 2010 4:13 PM

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regards
Srikrishna

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yes I am referring to project stock functionality. A PO is created account assigned to one WBS element. Later the material line item can be diverted to another WBS element, at the time of GR
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Normally we do not get into consignment arrangements with supplier with value limites or qty limites. It defeats the purpose of consignment, where idea is to reduce inventory carrying cost and yet have full availability of stock.
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Hi experts,
I need your suggestions on the below scenario.
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Thanks a lot for sharing your views on this plan.
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When trying to use the .sort or .distinct on my XMLDatasets.
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The distinct() call without no parameter will use all the
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