Inventory Auditing - ABC Cycle Counting

Hi all,
I have a question on inventory auditing.
I want to use ABC cycle counting but I need to figure out how to make SAP think that 1 fical year is actually 3 real life years.
Thanks for any information on this.
Regards,
Prabhu hankar

this is not possible in SAP standard.

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ABC Cycle Counting Process Steps

We currently want to switch our Cycle Counting by Bin location to ABC Cycle Counting. We want the system automatically generate a list of materials to count daily based on there ABC indicator.
Our Current Process Steps are as follows:
Step 1: LX 26 - Select Items for cycle count
Step 2: LI04 Print the Count sheets
Step 3: LI11N Enter the results
Step 4: LX17 View variance
Step 5: LI14 Create recounts
Step 6: LI04 Print the recount sheets
Step 7: LI11N Enter the results
Step 8: LX17 View variance
Step 9: LI20 Accept Counts & Clear Differences WM
Step 10: ZLI21 Accept Counts & Clear Differences IM
But when we switch to ABC Cycle counting we can't do the LX26 because that is when you select the bins you want to count. We need the process steps if we use the system to generate the kick off. Any ideas?
Linda

1. It is a CO problem - I think your error message is KI235. However you may face this problem if settings are ok but you do not do things properly in IM/WM bookings. Please check these links:
Re: OKB9
Account 5248654 requires an assignment to a CO object---Message no. KI235
Please describe step-by-step (with trx codes) what you did and in which step you get the error message.
2.
WM bookings will "never" consume you components (or maybe because a bug...). If you want to consume the components you have to post GI with reference to your PrdOrd (CO11N, CO15, CO27, MIGO, MB1A).
If you did a booking with mvt 261 in MB1A by mistake, do the reverse booking by mvt 262. That's all.
If you cannot solve your issue please clarify your problem, step-by-step...
Regards,
Csaba

What is T-code to cancel physical inventory document for cycle count MICN?

HI
Please advice me what is T-code and step to cancel physical inventory document for cycle count MICN?
Thanks

There is no way to Cancel the Cycle count document. however you can click on 0 count so that it wont post any new entry on the cycle count.

ABC CYCLE COUNT

We want to Cycle Count using the ABC method and base it on material cost
A parts - over 12K (count once a month)
B Parts - between $500 and 12K (count once a quarter)
C Parts - under 5K count (count once a year)
We cycle count every day.
Do all the materials need to have there own bin location? We want to count 34 materials a day.
As 3
Bs 10
Cs 21
34 Materials a day to cover all of our parts the way we want to count them.
Our bins have several mixed parts in them so if I count A part it may be in 3 different locations. I was told you not only have to count all 3 parts but all parts that are in that same bin even if it is not in the cycle count. This can't be right.
Tell me there has been a fix if this is the case.
Thanks

For cycle count, system will automatically select and proposed to you the material number to be counted into a physical inventory document based on the config you specified for the ABC indicator. Based on the material number proposed by the the system (plant , storage location,with/without bin location) you then perform the physical inventory count.
Could you reorganised your question so that people understand what exactly u r asking.
best regards,
Eric.

Physical Inventory vs. Cycle Counting

Hi Experts -
In the absence of the Cycle counting indicator and ABC Analysis is it safe to say that Cycle Counting is not a relevant scenario?
Physical inventory is different PI doc > Count > Recount > Clear differences.
What is the standard functionality if both the ABC and CC indicator is not set?
Thank you.

Hi Gary,
you are right if the CC indicator is not set in the material master then cycle count is not a relevant scenario. Cycle count is one of the method however you can define the system for Continuous count or Annual inventory in addition to both the option you can also activate
PlcmntInv(Continuous inventory upon placement into stock)
ZeroCkin (Continuous inventory based on zero stock check during removal of stock from bin)
The normal Physical inventory process is
Create & Activate a PI Doc (LI01N)---- Count (LI11N) / RecounT (LI14, if required)------Clear difference in WM(LI20) ---Clear difference in IM (LI21)
SPRO-----LE---WM ---ACTIVTIVES----PHYSICAL INVENTORY ------DEFINE TYPE PER STORAGE TYPE

Inventory record Reprint - Cycle count

Hi SAP Experts,
Could any one of you tell me how to reprint cleared inventory records (cycle counted)? Or alternatively how to retrieve/archive inventory record and reprint them.
Also let me know the steps to follow in the T-code for archival of records that you advice me.
An immediate feedback will be appreciated. Thanks.

MI21 is for printing physical inventory documents. In that if you select the status selection for Physical inventory document, you get a pop up dialog box where you can choose the status, whether it is already counted, or otherwise.

Warehouse Inventory List via Cycle Counting

When printing a cycle count document in LI04, does anyone know what form the print program calls?

no form.
only write statments in the ABAP report RLLI0400

CYCLE COUNT INDICATORS WITH ABC FOR MATERIALS NOT GENERATING SESSION MICN

HI ALL.
THANKS IN ADVANCE.
WHILE DOING CYCLE COUNT .
ALREADY EXISTING MATERIALS WITH ABC INDICATORS.
NOT GENERATION SESSION IN MICN.
LOOKING FOR ANSWERS FROM SAP MM MEMBERS.
REGARDS.
PARAMESHWAR
Edited by: Csaba Szommer on Jun 30, 2011 9:48 AM

how often a material is to be counted is defined in customizing of your ABC cycle count indicators and its assignment to the material master.
at which day the material is due for counting depends on last count date for this material (or creation date of material master accounting view if no last count date is available).
and last but not least it is the user who decides for which period (from and to date) he want create inventory documents with MICN
for example, just enter a from date of today and a to date December 31st 2011, and SAP will show you all materials that are due to be counted in that period with the proposed counting date.

Urgent help on cycle count

Hi,
How can i do Itemwise cycle count irrespective of the locations
Scenario:
Item ABC is lying in multiple warehouses. While physically doing the cycle count for Item, the exercise is carried for all warehouses where the item exists.
i.e Itemwise cycle count irrespective of the locations.
Thanx in advance.
Regards
Rasika

Hi Rasika
First define the Cycle count
Path:
Admin=>Setup=>Inventory=>Inventory Cycle
Fields(Name,frequency,alert,time)
Connect this cycle count to the Item Group
Path:
Admin=>Setup=>Inventory=>Item groups (Cycle count field)
Connect the corresponding itemgroup to the items
Now you can see in the Inventory tab of item master data the cycle count details
On the particular date and time it will give u an alert
Now you can go to the Inventory=>Inventory transactions=>Initial quantities
In the Inventory tracking tab:
Enter the counted in whse against the item
If there is any difference in the quantity stored with the quantity counted it will make that difference in the stock posting
Once you had updated the stock posting it will post the difference (i.e, it will update the stock as well as the valuation)
This u have to do individually for the different warehouses
HTH
Have a nice day
Regards
baskar

Cycle counting process

Hi all,
Could you please some good link/ notes about cycle counting process.
Sruthi

Hi, Please go through the following.
Cycle counting is a method of physical inventory whereby inventory is counted at regular intervals within a fiscal year. These intervals depend on the cycle counting indicator set for the material.
Cycle Counting allows you to count fast-moving items more frequently than slow-moving items, for example.
General Procedure
Mark all materials that are to be included in cycle counting with a cycle counting indicator in the material master record (storage data). The cycle counting indicator is used to group the materials together into various cycle counting categories (for example, A, B, C, and D). In Customizing for Inventory Management, you can define for each category the time intervals at which the materials are to be counted.
You can use the program ABC Cycle Counting Analysis (RMCBIN00) to perform an analysis. In this analysis, the system assigns the materials to the individual categories according to consumption or requirements. You can also specify whether this analysis is to consider only the materials with cycle counting indicator or all materials. The cycle counting indicator in the material master records can be updated automatically by this program.
For the planning of cycle counting, run the program Create physical inventory documents for cycle counting (RM07ICN1). This program checks all cycle counting materials to determine whether a physical inventory is due to be carried out.
You can create physical inventory documents for the following stock types, as well as unrestricted-use stock (stock type 1):
quality inspection stock
blocked stock
The system calculates the planned count date for all stock types as folllows:
Date of last physical inventory of unrestricted-use stock + predefined interval
If a material needs to be counted, use the program to create a batch input session for creating physical inventory documents. To create the physical inventory documents, process the batch input session .
When the inventory differences are posted, the actual count date is recorded in the physical inventory data of the material as the date of the last physical inventory.
Activities
Marking Materials for Cycle Counting
This step is only required if you perform cycle counting for the first time or if you want to update the cycle counting indicators.
In the material master record (storage data), maintain the cycle counting indicator for all the materials that are to be included in cycle counting.
You can set the indicator in one of the following two ways:
manually in the material master record. To do this, choose Material ® Change from the Material Master menu.
automatically using ABC analysis To do this, choose Special procedures ® Cycle counting ® Set CC indicator from the Physical Inventory menu.
Creating Physical Inventory Documents for Cycle Counting
From the Physical Inventory menu, select Special procedures ® Cycle counting ® Create physical inventory documents.
Enter the data required.
Carry out the evaluation.
Choose Edit ® Generate session to create the batch input session.
Select System ® Services ® Batch input ® Edit from the menu to process the session.
Carry out the physical inventory for the physical inventory documents created.
Thanks,
DV

Warehouse management Cycle counting

Hi All ,
I am trying to create an inventory record for cycle counting in transaction LICC. But it is not allowing me to do so and giving error as "Maintain number range interval "01" for inventory" . Can anybody tel me the SPRO path OR tcode where i need to maintain this number range . I have already maintained all number ranges for WM . Am not abel to find where I missed to maintain this Physical inventory numbner range .
Thanks
Rohit Chavan

OMMB transaction to define number ranges for physical inventory in WM

Automatic generation of physical Inv. docs. for Cycle Counts

I would like to know if physical inventory documents for cycle counts can be created automatically by SAP. i.e. all A class materials will have physical inventory documents generated automatically after every 3 months. Is this possible?
Many thanks.

Technically it is possible to run the creation program scheduled in background.
But not everything what is technically possible makes sense for the business process.
Before you generate inventory documents (it does not matter whether this is anual inventory or Cycle count) you have to make sure that any receipt or goods issue that happened before the count is posted in SAP.
This often can only be achieved by calling the Usual Suspects.
With a good organisation in place this can even be achieved with scheduled jobs, but such good organisations I have not seen often (did I ever?)
Further you might have a kind of misunderstanding. Each cycle count has all due to be counted materials, no matter if the CC indicator is A, B C or D. There is no field in the selection screen to tell SAP to just create inventory documents on A items.
The CC indicator defines how often a material is to be counted, but not when. The when is defined by last inventory, or accounting view creation date. So you should plan to count minimum once in a month, I recommend to do it weekly, but it depends on the number of items you have to count.

Need help regarding Cycle counting

Hi All,
I need your help regarding cycle counting process in SAP PI. The scenario is as follows,
At present in the legacy system business practice is to count certain number of materials say 100 materials every day. Out of these 100 materials; we keep fixed percentage for the materials to be counted i.e. out of 100 certain percentage will of A material, certain percentage will of B materials like wise.
Also every day we want to generate a list of these 100 materials to be counted (this list can be handed over to inventory person to physically count the material) and generation of PI documents to subsequently post the count results.
Please note that we will be manually assigning cycle count indicator (A or B or C etc) in the material master.
Thanks,
Attarde

from OSS Note 518418 - FAQ: Cycle Counting
3. Question:
I do not understand the determination of the date of physical inventory in the cycle counting physical inventory. How is the planned date or the date of physical inventory determined in the SAP system?
Answer:
In principle, the program calculates the planned date of physical inventory according to the following formula:
   planned date = base date + Interval (Trans.OMCO/Tab.XT159C-ININV)
Usually, the base date is the 'date of the last physical inventory'. Depending on the type of the stock or the batch management requirement, this date is read from one of the following table fields:
MARD-DLINL (Normal materials)
   MCHB-CHDLL (Batch materials, separately valuated materials)
If no physical inventory has been carried out yet and if this date field is therefore empty, the system uses the creation date of the material as basis date. The basis date then comes from one of the following table fields:
MSTA-ERSDA (Normal materials)
   MCHB-ERSDA (Batch materials, separately valuated materials)
Since the cycle counting physical inventory always runs for the current fiscal year, the earliest possible physical inventory date is the 01.01. and the latest possible physical inventory date is the 31.12 of the current year.
If the date of the physical inventory is a non-working day, the program automatically proposes the next possible workday.

Cycle count dates

anyone know the TABLE where we can get the count history ..for example i would like to know the dates or no.of times the the material has been counted in a fiscal yr .....for ABC cycle count (

Try table ISEG

Cycle counting proceedure

Hi gurus,
Can you guide me how to do a cycle counting for the materials step by step proceedure.
Also relevant configurations in the master data to be maintained.

In cycle counting, all materials need not be treated the same way. It allows fast moving materials to be counted more frequently than slow moving materials or high value items to be counted more frequently than low value items. A cycle counting indicator is set in material master which determines for a given plant, how frequently the material has to be counted, as in, once a year, twice a year, thrice a year and so on.
1. MI01 u2013 Create Phsical inventory document : Initial screen
2. MI22 u2013 Display Physical Inventory Documents for material
3. MI21 u2013 Print physical inventory document
4. MI04 u2013 Enter inventory count: Initial screen
5. MI20 u2013 List of Inventory Differences
6. MI11 u2013 Enter recount: Initial screen
7. MI22 u2013 Display Physical Inventory Documents for material
8. MI21 u2013 Print physical inventory document
9. MI04 u2013 Enter inventory count: Initial screen
10. MI20 u2013 List of Inventory Differences
11. MI07 u2013 Post inv. Differences: Initial screen
While creating physical inventory document in Step 1, material can also be blocked for posting. Otherwise transaction MI32 can be used after Step 1 to block the materials.
Steps 6 to 10 above are optional. If re-count is required then only these steps need to be carried out. Step 11 creates a material document, which leads to updating of SAP book inventory. In other words Step 11 leads to write-on or write-off of inventory based on physical inventory count.
SAP also provides T Codes to automate the process carried out in Step 1. By these transactions Physical Inventory Documents can be created in background in batch processing mode. MI31 enables creation of Physical inventory documents in bulk based on selection parameters for Periodic Inventory Count. Similarly MICN enables bulk creation of physical inventory documents for Cycle Counting.
There is an alternate ways of processing inventory count, where inventory data can be entered without reference to any physical inventory document, as mentioned below:
MI09 u2013 Enter count w/o reference to document: Initial screen
MI20 u2013 List of Inventory Differences
MI07 u2013 Post inv. Differences: Initial screen
Master Data Setting u2013 Cycle Counting
Edited by: Debashish Sarkar on Dec 9, 2009 2:18 PM

Inventory Auditing - ABC Cycle Counting

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