Discontinuation of a material

Hi,
A material is to used till the stock of the material is there, and when the stock gets exhausted, it has to be discontinued.
This material is the header material of a BOM.
The requirement is that once the stock is exhausted, new sales order should not be allowed to be created.
How to specify that sales order is to be allowed for this material till stock is available and not allowed when the stock is not available?
Regards,
Hema

Hi,
Is there any user-exit to achieve this requirement?
Regards,
Hema

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Discontinuation indicator in Material Master

Hello,
I am using discontinuation group concept in BOM which replace 1 old material with multiple folloup materials.
My system ( ECC5.0) does not display discontinuation indicator 2 ( discontinue group in BOM). As a workaround I am using discontinue indicator 1 in material master, which makes entry of atleast 1 folloup material in material master mandatory.
Does anyone know how to enable discontinue indicator 2 in material master?
Thanks,
Ram

Hi,
The indicator 2 is not offered either in BOM or material master. It works as below:
Set the discontinuation indicator as 1 for the material to be discontinued in the material master along with other required details. Now in the BOM for the discontinued material, click on discontn & specify the follow-up group as say A1. Then specify follow-up group as A1 for materials which need to follow up this material.
Create a planned order & explode the BOM in the planned order, you will then notice the indicator 2 for the material which you discontinued in the material master & in BOM.
Hope it clarifies your query.
Regards,
Vivek
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Hi Bramhankar,
Glad to note you're now the Mentor for this forum. Best wishes & hope your knowledge continues to enrich this forum....!!!
Edited by: Vivek on Aug 5, 2009 8:43 AM

Discontinued Material

I have maintained a raw material as discontinued material.
The Follow up material is also given in Material master.
The Discont.Grp is given in BOM.
The ware house stock of discontinued material is 0
so tat it shud take the follow up material.
But for the goods movement in confirmation screen its throwing error.
Goods movement failed.
Pls help me in this issue.
Rakesh

Dear Rakesh,
First check the Effective Out Date in MRP4 view of the material master for that discontinued material.
Effective-Out Date
Date from which the stocks of the material are to be used up. As soon as no more stock exists for
this material, it is to be replaced by the follow-up material.
Use
From this date, the system reassigns the dependent requirements that are no longer covered by
warehouse stock of the discontinued material to the follow-up material. This is done as part of material
requirements planning.
Procedure
Enter a date if you want to plan the discontinuation of a material for the long term.
Also check this thread,
Re: Discontinuation&Production Order
Regards
Mangalraj.S

Consideration of stock of discontinued FG or trading material during MRP Run

There is an functionality of follow up material for component. I would like to know if there is any similar option available for finished goods or trading materials.
I am doing procurement planning for externally procured Trading materials. Now my previous material A is being replaced by material B. Therefore all the planned independent requirement is available in system only for B. But still there is some stock available for material A. How can it be considered during MRP run for material B.
Example,
Material A:
On Hand Stock = 100
Planned Independent Req. = 0
Material B:
On Hand Stock = 300
Planned Independent Req. = 1000
In this case if we run MRP for material B, how we ask system to plan Purchase Requisitions for 600 instead of 700 for material B, considering stock of material A.

Hello
Please refer to the following SAP note:
43636 - Discontinued parts
This note provides a detailed explanation of the system standard design of the usage of discontinued parts with material requiremenst planning and the most common questions about this issue.
The following information is provided on this note regarding the PIRs:
2. Planned independent requirements and forecast requirements are not redirected.
Explanation: Planned independent requirements after the effective-out date are not redirected but are provided with an exception message in the MRP list stating that they cannot be included in the availability check. Planned independent requirements and forecast requirements are therefore displayed in the MRP list and in the stock/requirements list. However, they do not influence planning
BR
Caetano

Nested Material Discontinuation and follow-up possible?

Hello Experts,
We have a scenario where we have Material A, Material B, and Material C.
We'd like to set to the discontinuation flag on Material A and have it follow-up with Material B.
We'd also like to set the discontinuation flag on Material B and have it follow-up with Material C.
We can get a 1-to-1 relationship working properly but adding another material to the mix gives us an error message stating that the material is already a follow-up material.
Is there any way around this? We have several older revision material that we'd prefer to use up before continuing on the active material.
Many thanks,
~Adam

Hi Adam,
have you found solution for your issue?? I have the same problem. I've even tried put deletion flag for component A but no results.
maybe somebody else has any clue how to deal with it??
i'm looking forward for any help.

Discontinuation indicator and follow up material.

Hi,
I am facing the strange issue for which i need your expertise. The requirement is like:
1. "X" material is discontinued and "Y" is as follow-up in two plants A & B. Discontinaution group and follow-up group has also been assigned in the BOM.
2. Now The client want to reverse the settings . means "Y" should be discontinued and "X" should be follow-up in both plants A & B.
Now I have removed the discontinuation indicator and follow up material from "X" in both plants. But when I am going to discontinue the "Y" material and putting " X" as a follow-up material, The system is giving the message "The specified follow-up material results in recursiveness
Message no. M3609
Diagnosis
You have entered a follow-up material. However, the BOM explosion for the follow-up material leads to the discontinued material, resulting in unpermissible recursiveness.
Procedure
Enter another follow-up material or cancel the entry.
Please suggest me where I am missing in my settings and what is the reason for this message.
Regards
Deepak Sharma

Dear ,
Check the following :
1.Validity of the Bill Of Material or any deletion flag is set in the present BOM.
2.Please check the following SAP notes :
Note 161742 - Consulting note: BOM recursion/low-level code 999
Note 839879 - Trace 'BOM is recursive'
Note 139517 - Recursiveness for follow-up materials
Note 42891 - Recursiveness check
Hope this will help you to figure it out
Regards
JH

Cost-Roll take follow-up material upon discontinuation effective-out date ?

Dear Expert,
If we use discontinuation/follow-up material, during Cost-Roll (CK11N), SAP will take default cost from discontinued material even if follow-up material is effective.
How to make SAP take cost of follow-up material after/on effective-out date ?
Example :
Parent "A" contains component "B" qty 3, to be follow-up with component "C" upon discontinuation of "B" on effective-out dated 1st Nov'07, and like-wise to take std cost of "B' before 1st Nov'07 cost-roll.
Thus, when I roll cost in December, I hope SAP would calculate for std cost of A to include std cost of "C" (for cost-roll after 1st Nov'07).
Setting :
Material Master of "B" MRP4 view :
- Discontinuation Indicator = 1
- Effective-out date = 1st Nov'07
- Follow-up Material = "C"
BOM of Parent "A" :
- Component "B" indicate discontinuation group "A1"
- Add component "C" and indicate follow-up group "A1".
Thanks for your guidance !

Hello,
We are having the same issue: is a BOM for costing the only way to handle this ? Controlling dept. here fear they wouldn't be maintained as accurately as the production ones (and they are right). We were also thinking to set the phased out materials (B in your example) as cost irrelevant when you add to new material in the BOM...and start costing the father (A in your example) directly with the new component. I would appreciate a lot to hear other examples of dealing with this issue if anybody has.
Thanks a lot,
Olivier

Discontinuation functionality with production orders

Dear Guru's,
Can anyone please confirm: is the functionality for discontinuation of a material (including follow-up material) not available with production orders?
Example: in our system we have component A that is followed up by component B. This is set in material master - MRP 4.
We also have production orders for the upcoming 4 months in our system. If the stock of component A is depleted within these 4 months, we would expect to see requirements (orderreservations?) on component B, but this is not the case.
Thanks for any comments,
Rgds, AJ

Hi
Discontinuation works for Production orders.Couple of Checks needed for both Follow up and Discontinued Materials to arrive to actual problem
1) Base unit of measure must be same
2) Should have same MRP type
3) Not defined as Co-Products
For detailed info pl refer the link
[Discontinuation|http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/b1/c044d1439a11d189410000e829fbbd/content.htm]
Regards
Brahmaji

Discontinuation data

Hi,
I have one error getting during setting discontinuation indicator and follow-up material in MM.
I need to discontinue one material with other material as follow-up material. But when i am putting the other material as follow-up material it is giving me the error" The specified follow-up material results in recursiveness".
When i have analysed then what i found is , the follow-up material is already discontinued in other plant. But does it make any sense that if the material is discontinued in one plant , I can not use the same materil as follow-up material in other plant?
I hope that discontinuation of the material is at plant level not client level. Is it correct? if yes then why I am getting this error.
I have checked the BOM also there is no recursiveness in the BOM.
Please resolve my problem.
Regards
Deepak Sharma

Hi,
Thanks for response. But how can i resolve this issue as my one discontinued material in one plant can not be discontnued in the other plant. And follow-up material in one plant can be discontinued in other plant.
Please advice.
Regards
Deepak Sharma

Discontinuation in BOM

Dear Gurus,
for one discon material we have four follow up material s,clienet want requirement should consume follow up 1,then consume follow up 2,then follow up 3,then consume 4,if still requirement is not fulfilled ,systroupem should create the PR for follow up 4
we donot want use alter group method,can we map this senario with disconti functionality
please help me.
siva

Dear Gurus,
i think foloowing solution should work in my scenario:
Parallel follow-up
In this case, the discontinued item 0010 (material M-1) is replaced by the follow-up items 020 (Material M-2) and 0030 (Material M-3).
Material M1 is to be discontinued (discont. type 2), materials M-2 and M-3 are the follow-up items (discont. type 5).
Item     Material     Discontinuation type     Discontinuation group     Follow-up group
10     M-1     2                          A1
20     M-2     5                                                              A!
30     M-3     5                                                             A1
please\ let me know about material setting for M-1,M-2,M-3, where we can find Discontinuation type 2,5,5
siva

Discontinued parts in BoM explosion reports

I am having difficulty with the BoM explosion reports (CS11-13, and CSP1-3), in that they seem to take no notice of discontinuation. In particular we have some assemblies which are discontinued, and replaced by alternative parts with a different sub-assembly BoM. It does not seem possible to explode through the new BoM - the reports appear to continue to use the obsolete assembly.
Am I doing something wrong? It would seem clear that the reports should explode the BoM through the new assemblies, particularly if there is no stock of the obsolete part.
Is there an alternative way to get a BoM explosion report which does take note of the discontinuation data?

Hi,
In my opinion discontinuation is considered only during MRP run (planning) and has nothing to do with BOM reports (CS03, CS11, CS12, CSMB, etc).
SAP online help:
If this indicator is set, the material is defined as 'to be discontinued'. The material is then discontinued in MRP. MRP transfers dependent requirements that are no longer covered by stock of this material to the follow-up material.
So, I think you won't see the follow-up material in BOM reports. Even if you maintain the discountinuation in BOM I think you cannot see the actual sitruation in BOM reports (you will see both follow-up and discontinued material).
I hope I'm mistaken and this is a solved issue in SAP.
Regards,
Csaba

Parts discontinued in MRP

Hi All,
How parts discontinued is work with BOM application. In my case if am putting discontinued indicator 1 for main material and 3 for dependent material, its giving required result. But as per SAP given help, if my using discontinued group with this indicator, in MRP the requirement is not generated. Why this is so? I had gone through SAP help as per given example. Plz suggest.
Regards,
Rajesh

Dear,
In MRP4 of discontinution material master enter the followup material and date from which it will be discontinued, from that day the requirement will be passed to new material.
You need to enter the discontinuation group in material to be discontued and followup material group in material which is going to be replaced.
See the link below
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp60_sp/helpdata/en/a0/1016bd4c8311d189520000e829fbbd/frameset.htm
see the example, there are two types
1: Discontinued Item (Simple Discontinuation)
In simple discontinuation, the discontinued item 0010 (material M-1) is replaced with the follow-up item 0010 (material M-2) and 0010 (material M-3).
In the material master of material M-1, the discontinuation indicator is set to 1.
Item   Material    Discont. group Follow-up group
0010-M-1--
A1
0010-M-2--
A1
0010-M-3--
A1
Example 2: Discontinued Item (Parallel Discontinuation)
In parallel discontinuation, the discontinued items 0010 (material M-1) and 0010 (material M-2) are replaced by follow-up item 0010 (material M-3).
Material M-1 is the main material to be discontinued (discontinuation indicator 1) and material M-2 is the subordinate material to be discontinued (discontinuation indicator 3). Material M-3 is the follow-up item.
Item Material Discont. group Follow-up group
0010M-1--
A1
0010--M-2 -
A1
0010M-3--
A1
Example 3: Follow-Up Item
In simple discontinuation, item 0010 (material M-2) replaces 0010 (material M-1).
Item   Material    Discont. group Follow-up group
0010-M-1--
E1
0010-M-2--
E1
Please come back if required with questions on the examples given above so that it will be clear to you.
Edited by: Rajesha Vittal on Apr 25, 2008 2:44 PM

Simple discontinuation Cycle

Hi
Simple Discontinuation cycle.
Material : XXXX, Component : YYYY & ZZZZ(Component : YYYY will be discontinued and replaced by ZZZZ)
I have given the effective out date as today 26.02.2009. I maintained the BOM for XXXX with components YYYY and ZZZZ and maintained settings at item level for replacement.
I created a PIR for XXXX u2013 125nos and have stock for Component YYYY u2013 100nos. Now I run MRP for Material : XXXX and I have got a Planned order for ZZZZ for 125nos and Component YYYY I have got a reservation u2013 100nos and the remaining 25nos proposals are not created and also its not transferred to ZZZZ which will replace YYYY..
Can you get back to me on the above?
Jade

Hi Vivek
I have maintained the settings are below..
Material YYYY - Dis.cont Indicator - 1, effective Out date : current date, follow up mateial : ZZZZ
BOM :
Material YYYY - Dis.cont. Indicator - 1, Discont.Group : A, Follow up grou : Blank
Material ZZZZ - Dis.cont. Indicator - blank, Discont.Group : blank, Follow up grou : A
Can you check it up
Jade

Batch Wise Product Cost Details

Dear Experts,
I have a requirement where my client (pharmaceutical industry) wants to analyse costs according to batches.
For Example if I have raw Material A with three batches 1 , 2, 3 Each batch is procured with a different purchase price.
Next these batches are consumed against a process order . If I want to analyse which particular cost of raw material batch was consumed ? how can i find this out .
I know in MM if we go with MAP price will be averaged out and in standard price all three batches will have same price.
Also we can go for split valuation but inventory is already available and SAP is not allowing me to enter Valuation Category in material master record.

Hi,
Split valuation will be the best option. You can check the concept of split valuation with batches. Refer the help doc: Split Valuation with Batches - Batch Management (LO-BM) - SAP Library and the wiki doc: Split Valuation - Valuation Category &quot;X&quot; - Contributor Corner - SCN Wiki
If you want to activate split valuation for already existing material, the system checks the points mentioned in the note: 155874 - Change valuation category in material master to avoid inconsistency. You may check the points mentioned and close the documents. You may remove the stock temporarily by issuing against cost center in MB1A (or similar) and then activate the split valuation. After activating split valuation, you may reverse the stock. Else, you may create new material code and discontinue the existing material code.
Regards,
AKPT

How to trigger creation of collective orders

Hi,
How to trigger the creation of Collective orders.
regards

Hi,
Collective Orders
Use
In a collective order, planned orders or production orders are linked to one another over several production levels. Each order in the collective order has its own order number. If subassemblies are produced directly for superior orders within a production process, without physically entering the warehouse, it is useful to have a representation via collective orders.
The components for which separate production orders are created in the collective order are called directly produced components (see Creating Collective Orders)
Prerequisites
A collective order cannot be created for components that have one of the following indicators set:
· Co-product
· By-product
· Alternative item with strategy 2
· Alternative item with usage probability 0
· Discontinued
· Follow-up material
· Intra material
Features
Collective orders offer the following advantages:
· Integrated view of a production process
Collective orders make it possible to represent different levels of the production process together in the system. The production process can be viewed as an integrated whole.
· Separate order number for every order
Every level in a collective order represents a separate production order/planned order. Every production order/planned order has its own order number. This enables you to process the entire collective order, a subtree in the collective order or an individual order.
· No placements in storage or removals from storage between production levels
Within a collective order stock movements only take place for the leading order (that is, the order that is at the highest production level) and not for directly produced components. This makes it easier to maintain the collective order in comparison with several individual orders. A further advantage is a more realistic representation of the costs of the production process, since subordinate orders can be directly assigned and settled to superior orders.
· Business functions simultaneously for several orders
Certain business transactions can be carried out simultaneously for several orders. Releasing an order that belongs to a collective order has the effect that all the hierarchically subordinate orders are released simultaneously.
· Automatic change to dependent orders
Changes to an order automatically affect dependent orders / components affecting orders. For example, if you change the order quantity in an order then
¡ the relevant quantity changes are automatically made to dependent orders
¡ the requirements quantity of the directly produced component is automatically changed.
In the collective order, you also have the option of manufacturing directly produced material in a different plant to the planning plant.
· Set status in leading order
If you make changes in subordinate orders that have an affect on the status, then the system sets the corresponding status in the order header of the leading order in the collective order as follows:
u2013 CFCO Confirmation in collective order
u2013 GMCO Goods movements in collective order
u2013 RLNE Release taken place in network
In this way you are informed about changes in the whole collective order.
· Reading master data
You can copy the routing data and BOM data to the order again. You can find more information in Read master data.
Example
You want to produce a pump. The BOM for the pump contains a pressure regulating valve and a spiral casing. You want to enter these two components in separate production orders, but you do not want them to be posted to stock.
You set the special procurement type to direct production in the material master record for the pressure regulating valve and the spiral casing, so that production occurs using a collective order.
When you create a production order for the pump, a collective order is automatically created, which contains subordinate production orders for the pressure regulating valve and the spiral casing.
Creation of Collective Orders
Use
Collective orders are only created if the special procurement type is set to direct production in the components for which the separate production orders are to be created (materials planning area in the material master).
In the standard system, 52 is the special procurement type for direct production (that is, for components that are produced within a collective order).
To create a collective order, you must use an order type with internal number assignment.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Tejas

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