DRQ: Specific Identification Method for Inventory Valuation

This is a request to incorporate the features of Specific Identification Method (or Actual Cost) of Inventory Valuation for Serial Number / Batch Number controlled items.
Found lots of threads in the Forum regarding this topic, but could not able find out any answer from SAP.
Sometimes back, myself posted the same thread, but got reply that Navision has this features please use that.
Hope SAP Team has enough knowledge about this method of valuation, that is why I am not giving any example.
If require I can provide enough example on this topic.
Thanks & Regards
Anjan Bhowmick

Hi Peter,
This is the same requirement we need in mexico. What do you mean with "Next major releases"?
In other words, this requirement is not going to be consider for next version 8.8?
Waiting for your response.
Elías

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Business One allows the user to receive batch managed items with a batch number that already exists in the DB. Its possible that the received quantity is added to on-hand quantity in the warehouse. In such case, the quantity on-hand of that batch and the received quantity may have different costs.
What should be the system behavior in such case:
1. Block receipts to the same batch with different costs.
2. Write the difference to a price difference account, as done in Standard Cost method.
3. Manage the batch cost with Moving Average method.
This thread is continuation from 'Specific Identification Cost for batch managed Items' <a href="http://p2p.sap.com/businessoneforum?type=join&login=1&uid=41FB661A76CED536C825C4E2B6FF4397&cid=91&go=z37225">discussion</a> in P2P SAP Business One Forum (Product Development Collaboration).
Previous discussion on P2P is summarized in the attached file.

Hi Peter,
This is a very important functionality that you are describing here. For example, in the Steel industry, it could be extremely useful to cost by batch or serial number.
If you receive a batch that already exists in the system and if the costing method for the product is moving average, then teh cost of the batch should be calculated based on the moving average as well.
If the costing method is standard, then the cost should go in a variance account.
If the costing method is FIFO, then it is a getting trickier...
Regards,
Vincent

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My client has the requirement like comparison of Item with different valuation method in a single report.
Is there any provision to do this.
Please suggest
Regards,
Vikram

Dear Vikram,
Inventory Valuation Method is inteneded as a managerial report to check what-if scenarios. For instance, you can see what happens if you value an item based on a different costing method. This report is not intended to be used as report for auditing. For audititng purposes use the Inventory Audit Report.
You can use any standard method for the inventory valuation. You can also define various criteria to restrict the selection for inventory valuation.
Goto Inventory->Inventory Report->Inventory Valuation Report.
You will have to export to excel and consolidate the results.
Please note It can be run for other costing methods than actually selected for an item. For the selected method of valuation for an item, please run Inventory Audit Report. Exporting will work for you.
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Pritesh.

Hi,
     Thanks for the quick reply. I have configured FIFO valuation method and tried on the test server. I have the following 2 questions in it:
1) When executing MRF1, there is an error while creating the Batch Input session.
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      message no. 00330
2) If the session does get created, as per my understanding if the session is processed, system executes the Tcode MR22 in background and postings take place as
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Hi,
I sincerely request the participants of this forum to propose a solution for the following:
IFRS prescribes Specific Identification of Costs where the Inventory Items are not interchangeable;
Given the above, consider the following "Used Cars" Scenario
The following used cars with the Following Chassis Numbers (example) are purchased at the values indicated:
Chassis Number    Value
1020                           45000
2040                           40000
3060                           35000
At this point the third car is sold; But SAP calculates the Cost of Sales at the Moving Average price of 40000; But Actually, the Cost (under Specific identification method prescribed by IFRS) should be 35000;
Please advice what can be done in SAP MM/PM so that Cost of Sales is 35000;
The other solutions considered were:
1. Create each car as a separate Item Code (But this involves lot of work from the MM Team);
2. Create an ABAP report which will give vehicle wise Moving Average Price and Specific Costs based on which FI entry to be passed;
But both are work-arounds; Is there any straight solutions in SAP;
Your help would be highly appreciated and points rewarded;
Regards
Siddique

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Error in "Inventory Valuation Method using Moving Average"

Dear Sir,
Here I am using moving average as inventory valuation method at one of my client. I want to know that in SAP Business One, in case of F.G. valuation we can only get the valuation of Raw Material and not the direct expenses cost.
Can you please tell me how should i put the Direct Expense Cost (e.g. Labor Rate) in F.G. inventory Valuation?
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Hi,
Only the raw material cost will be added to the Cost of the FG based on the Quantity and price in the BOM.
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then refresh the BOM,
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With regards,
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Difference between Inventory Valuation Methods...

Hi
Can any say how does the 3 Inventory Valuation Methods Suits for the business Process...names FIFO for what kind of Businesses and Standard & Moving Average so on...
If any links to learn ...please let me know it....
Thanks

Hi Gopi,
Check below:
Moving Average– the method is based on the calculation of an average cost for the item in each sales and purchasing transaction.
Standard– the standard pricing system permits the selection of a fixed price, which is then used for all transactions.
FIFO– an additional perpetual inventory system, in which goods purchased first are sold first, regardless of the actual goods flow.
Hope this helps
Regards::::
Atul Chakraborty

Need to send the remittane advices via e-mail for specific payment method

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I need to genrate and send payment advices to vendors via e-mail for the specific payment method and specific currency.
I have to send the payment summary and DME Accompaying sheet via e-mail to the vendors. And if no e-mail exists for vendors the system should generate a spool to request print those.
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Hi Sateesh,
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2. Production Cost By Period
Path:- Production Cost by Period ---> Period end Closing ->WIP->Defind Valuation Method for ( Target Cost )
3. Production Cost by Sales Order
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Valuation method for Reasult Analysis

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Normally what is the valuation method we are using in india. I assueme 03 is the correct valuation method for calculating wip in india. Is there any other method can u explain.
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Hi,
It depends also on the following points:
1.If you are using Milestone Billing or Partial Billing use Method 01,02 or 03.
2.If you using RRB then go for method 14 or method 15.
3.If you want to calculate RA on the basis of Progress then use progress bases method.
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Inventory Valuation Difference for Finished Goods

Dear Experts,
I have a following query below when the FG Inventory valuation differences are posted
Finished goods price control is set as u201CSu201D
Eg: In Jan 2010 stock value 1000 ( 100*10)
Feb 2010 , opening stk of 1000 ( 100 units * 10 per piece)
In Feb 2010 , FG price has changed to 12 per piece ( Standard cost estimate executed)
System has posted the price difference entry
Debit FG stock 200/-
Credit Inv Price Diff 200/-
Now the query is, stocks pertaining to Jan 2010 are lying in Feb 2010,
When Inventory valuation is done, my profit is overstated in Feb 2010 for Jan 2010 stocks by 200/-
Is there any way to handle in SAP that it would post the price diff in Jan 2010, instead of Feb2010.
Advance thanks
Sanjai

Dear Ajay,
I will release std cost est in Jan and also in Feb.
But since the Jan stock is carried to Feb, during the month end when I value the FG , price difference for Jan stock is posted in Feb .
Currently the client wants to value the stock on actual basis, what is the best option to overcome. we are in BBP stage
Eg Jan stock value is 2000 ( 200*10)
     Feb Stock Value of goods produced in Feb is (100*12) 1200
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Physical inventory document creation for split valuated material

Hi
We are doing stock count in our company. We are using split valuation for some of the materials. When I tried to create a PID for split valuated material which are not in stock, system issued a standard error message. What I understood from that error message, we can create a PID for split valuated materials which are in stock. Is it so? If so, then how can we count split valuated material?
Let me know if you need any info.
Thanks in advance..
Jeny...

Please refer to SAP note 30254 and it should help.
Symptom
If you create a physical inventory document for a material in a storage
location without existing storage location segment, error message M7006
is displayed: 'Material & (material number) & (plant) & (storage
location) does not exist'. Thus, a storage location segment is not
created automatically for this material.
The same also applies to the batch segment. The batch segment is also
not created automatically but, if a batch is specified for a material
when creating a physical inventory document, that is not yet created for
this material, error message M7042 is generated: 'Batch & & & & does not
exist'.
The same applies to the special stock segments which are also not
created automatically. Different error messages are generated here
depending on the special stock (see also Note 64448).
Additional key words
MI01, MI09, MI10, M7076, M7183, M7184, M7185, MARD, MCHA, MCHB, MSKA,
MKOL, MSKU, MSPR, MSLB
Cause and prerequisites
If no storage location segment or batch segment or special stock segment
exists to a material, this then means that a goods movement did never
occur before in the system to this material (batch) to this storage
location (special stock), that is that the material (batch) never had a
stock to this storage location (special stock) in the system before and
that it was never posted before on this segment. It is therefore not
possible to carry out a physical inventory for such a material (batch).
It is different, if a goods movement has already occurred to a material
(batch) to this segment and if only the present stock is zero. A
physical inventory is then necessary and also feasible for this material
(batch) since the different segments are not deleted automatically in
the moment in which the stock becomes zero.
Solution
For a material for that no storage location segment, batch segment or
special stock segment exists, it is not necessary, to carry out a
physical inventory on this storage location or for this batch or this
special stock. If, however, a quantity is physically found to such a
material, the corresponding segment must be created before the physical
inventory.
There are 3 options to create storage location data:
       - maintain the 'Storage' view in the material master for the
          material and storage location or
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       - use the 'Enter storage locations' function in the material
          master or
       - post the first goods receipt (providing, the automatic
          creation of storage location data is permitted in the plant
          and for the movement type).
There are 2 options to create batch data}:
       - create the batches in the material master manually via
          function 'Create batch'.
       - post the first goods receipt for the batches to the respective
          material.
You can only post the various special stock segments via posting a goods
receipt. An exception is special stock 'K' (vendor consignment). You
must define a consignment price in the material master for this special
stock using the 'Create vendor consignment' function before a goods
receipt can be posted for this special stock.

Report for Inventory Ageing

Our client wants a report for Inventory Ageing. (we are not using batch management)
Use tried to sell Standard report MC46 but they are not convinced with the results.
The issue is if the material is not consumed for last 399 days but today if some movement is there in that particular material, then the material is not shown as non moving. Actually the material was not at all used for last 399 days.
In mc.5 report there are key figures like last consumption, last good issue etc but the same problem is there with it.
We are trying to develop a customised report.
Please help.
Thanks in advance.

Hi,
The Stock Aging Report displays the description of material that are stocked for n-number of periods at particular inventory locations( may be trading plant or manufacturing Plant). The details, which are displayed, are about the aging period for the selected items.
There are reports and T code are
MC.A ,
MC.9,
MM5B,
MMBE,
MB5M,
MC50 - Dead Stock ,
MC46 - Slow-moving items,
If the above reports not meet your requirement, you should develop your own ABAP program to meet your specific business requirement.
This is define in overall stock on value based, suppose a material is received in Feb-month, same material is received in Jan-2007 , DEC-2007 also.The total value of this inventory is say 90 lakhs, ( 30 lakhs of each month) so system will show inventory aging as below
stock aging less than 30 days, 90 lakhs
stock aging more than 30 days but below 60 days 60 lakhs
stock ageing more than 60 days but below 90 days 30 lakhs
Assuming that no issue taken place if issue is taken place, it will be deducted by default FIFO method.
You may have to develop an ABAP report.
However, look into the path: information system > logistics > inventory managment > material and explore all like MC.9,MC.A,MC.B & MC.C
Regards,
Biju K

Non-Cumulative vs. Cumulative KeyFigures for Inventory Cube Implementation?

A non-cumulative is a non-aggregating key figure on the level of one or more objects, which is always displayed in relation to time. Generally speaking, in SAP BI data modeling, there are two options for non-cumulative management. First option is to use non-cumulative management with non-cumulative key figures. Second option is to use non-cumulative management with normal key figures (cumulative key figures). For SAP inventory management, 0IC_C03 is a standard business content cube based upon the option of non-cumulative management with non-Cumulative key figures. Due to specific business requirements (this cube is designed primarily for detailed inventory balance reconciliation, we have to enhance 0IC_C03 to add additional characteristics such as Doc Number, Movement type and so on. The original estimated size of the cube is about 100 million records since we are extracting all history records from ECC (inception to date). We spent a lot of time to debate on if we should use non-cumulative key figures based upon the standard business content of 0IC_C03 cube. We understand that, by using Non-Cumulative key figures, the fact table will be smaller (potentially). But, there are some disadvantages such as following:
(1) We cannot use the InfoCube together with another InfoCube with non-cumulative key figures in a MultiProvider.
(2) The query runtime can be affected by the calculation of the non-cumulative.
(3) The InfoCube cannot logically partition by time characteristics (e.g. fiscal year) which makes it difficult for future archiving.
(4) It is more difficult to maintain non-cumulative InfoCube since we have added more granularity (more characteristics) into the cube.
Thus, we have decided not to use the Cumulative key figures. Instead, we are using cumulative key figures such as Receipt Stock Quantity (0RECTOTSTCK) , Issue Stock Quantity(0ISSTOTSTCK)
, Receipt Valuated Stock Value (0RECVS_VAL) and Issue Valuated Stock Value (0ISSVS_VAL). All of those four key figures are available in the InfoCube and are calculated during the update process. Based upon the study of reporting requirements, those four key figures seems to be sufficient to meet all reporting requirements.
In addition, since we have decided not to use cumulative key figures, we have removed non-cumulative key figures from the 0IC_C03 InfoCube and logically partitioned the cube by fiscal year. Furthermore, those InfoCube are fiscally partitioned by fiscal year/period as well.
To a large extent, we are going away from the standard business content cube, and we have a pretty customized cube here. We'd like to use this opportunity to seek some guidance from SAP BI experts. Specifically, we want to understand what we are losing here by not using non-cumulative key figures as provided by original 0IC_C03 business content cube. Your honest suggestions and comment are greatly appreciated!

Hello Marc,
Thanks for the reply.
I work for Dongxin, and would like to add couple of points to the original question...
Based on the requirements, we decided to add Doc Number and Movement type along few other characteristics into the InfoCube (Custom InfoCube - article movements) as once we added these characteristics the Non Cumulative keyfigures even when the marker was properly set were not handling the stock values (balance) and the movements the right way causing data inconsistency issues.
So, we are just using the Cumulative keyfigures and have decided to do the logical partitioning on fiscal year (as posting period is used to derive the time characteristics and compared to MC.1 makes more sense for comparison between ECC and BI.
Also, I have gone through the How to manual for Inventory and in either case the reporting requirement is Inception to date (not just weekly or monthly snapshot).
We would like to confirm if there would be any long term issues doing so.
To optimize the performance we are planning to create aggregates at plant level.
Couple of other points we took into consideration for using cumulative keyfigures are:
1. Parallel processes possible if non-cumulative keyfigures are not used.
2. Aggregates on fixed Plant possible if non-cumulative keyfigures are not used. (This being as all plants are not active and some of them are not reported).
So, since we are not using the stock keyfigures (non cumulative) is it ok not to use 2LIS_03_BX as this is only to bring in the stock opening balance....
We would like to know if there would be any issue only using BF and UM and using the InfoCube as the one to capture article movements along with cumulative keyfigures.
Once again, thanks for your input on this issue.
Thanks
Dharma.

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