Inventory management @ project site

Dear Friends
We are doing customer project. Most of my client's project are Turn key projects, which usually run for 2-3 years. In the span of project life, lots of materials at different stages will be procured & will be dispatched to project site from Vendor. Once GR is done at the project site, invoice verification & payment will be made.
Now my client wants to maintain inventory of all the material @ project site with material value.
For example: On 2nd April 2009, 100 nos. of XYZ material received @ project site worth Rs.100000.
On 10th April, 25 no of XYZ are consumed for project activity worth Rs.25000.
My client wants to monitor all these activities on the system. According to him, after consumption of 25 no. of XYZ material worth Rs.25000, System should show the remaining material as 75 no. of XYZ material worth Rs.75000 is still available in the stock.
Now say, if Vendor dispatches another 100 XYZ material, system should update the stock available as 175 no. of XYZ are available.
How can it be achieved?
Because in SAP system, once we make vendor payment, its no more our responsibility. It's customers material.
But here, after payment to vendor, customer is giving back these material to us, to execute the project.
Please suggest the possible solution.
Thanks & Regards

Hi Amaresh
i read the comments by everybody. The answer is already given by somebody.
You need to use the scenario " PR + Reservation" with item category (L) this is required since you want to know the value of the inventory at some point. Once you have a GR (101 Q) you will have a stock on the project. And you can find the qty and value (both) of stock in MBBS, you can see the project stock (Qty) in MBBE also.
You will have a vendor payment after GR as you said so functionally there will be no problem.
I hope you know that Cost will come on project only after you do a Goods issue Transaction (281 Q)
So you need to see this at the time of actual Goods Issue.
On the other hand, since you want to know the Stock value of the material you cannot use Non Stock scenario for this.
I hope you are little clear on this
Regards
Ashish

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I believe I've found the fix for this issue. After opening a ticket with MS support and not getting anywhere with this issue I decided to do an in-depth review of all the Project and SharePoint 2013 CU's starting with December 2013 to September 2014.
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August 2014 CU https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2989078
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Project Managers (Microsoft Project Server)
Team members (Microsoft Project Server)
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Project Owner Transfer
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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc197668(v=office.14).aspx
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Is there somebody to give me advice about it?
Tanks a lot
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I want to load inventory management from scratch.
I have ready lots of documents from this site related to this but still unsure.
In SAP document, It says that BX should be compressed with NO MARKER UPDATE and while BF and UM should be compressed with NO MARKER Update box checked.
I also read some where that
BX and UM should be compressed with No marker update not selected while only BF should be compressed with marker update box checked.
which is the correct version or whats the difference between these two.
thanks

Hi Vaidya,
Inventory calculate all non cumulative values based on a reference +/- delta principle.
The reference is called the marker.
Answer to the question when should I do a marker update?
Initially, for first load to BW, if R/3 system has gone live earlier, each material would have some stock value in the plant. But if BW has to load only deltas , then it should have this initial stock figures.
So we do a statsitcal run for BX. This statistical run.. consider intial stock of R/3 when it went live + incoming material movement documents - outgoiong material movements and loads BX.
So after this load in BW, we compress the request in BW to create our marker to say 100PCS for material A in plant A as on 31.03.2009.
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say material A moved in on 03.04.2009 - 40 pcs.
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Dear Experts,
I have a task in hand to implement Inventory Management in SAP BW 3.5. Now, this is the first time that we will be implementing anything related to Logistics and I havenu2019t done so earlier in my support projects. I have got 10 hrs of downtime.
I need to fetch the report for both Trading as of now.
The fields needed in the report by the customer are:
Plant
Plant Description
S. Loc.
S.Loc. Description
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Opening Stock Value,
Receipts against PO Qty,
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Receipt against STO Qty,
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All Other Receipts Qty,
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RevaluationValue,
Miro Differences,
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      Value,
Issue against STO Qty,
        Value,
All Other Issues Qty,
      Value,
Closing Stock Qty,
           Value,
Book Inv Qty,
Physical Inv Count.
I am planning to define these as Zkey-figures and write routines in update rules based on processing keys to capture each qty and value separately.
My questions are:
1) What are the fields from above that can be pulled from standard BI Content Reports (if possible, please specify which report)? OR fields (or combination of fields) that are already in the cube?
2) For every above field, customer has given standard movement types.
For ex: for Receipts against PO = Mov Types 101,105,123,162 (Doc Type IN/IM)
            for Receipt against STO = Mov Types 351, 352 (Doc Type UB)
But when brought in BI, all routines are based on processing keys (BW Transaction key). Where can I find mapping of each processing key to the corresponding movement type?
If you know which processing key can be used for above fields, please let me know.
3) What are the other fields that need to be considered in routines. If possible please specify field wise.
4) Should I extend the 0IC_C03 with these new custome KFs creating a new zcube or should I add only required fields in zcube.
If I follow the latter, will there be any impact on standard BF/UM runs as in If I load till PSA and from PSA I follow my customized update rules terminating into my customized cube?
Thanks friends.

BJ,
My questions are:
1) What are the fields from above that can be pulled from standard BI Content Reports (if possible, please specify which report)? OR fields (or combination of fields) that are already in the cube?
~ You will get fields from the Cube only.
2) For every above field, customer has given standard movement types.
For ex: for Receipts against PO = Mov Types 101,105,123,162 (Doc Type IN/IM)
for Receipt against STO = Mov Types 351, 352 (Doc Type UB)
~ Check this Table in Source system for BW Keys : TMCLVBW
But when brought in BI, all routines are based on processing keys (BW Transaction key). Where can I find mapping of each processing key to the corresponding movement type?
If you know which processing key can be used for above fields, please let me know.
Check this table
3) What are the other fields that need to be considered in routines. If possible please specify field wise.
That depends upon your requirement in the report or Check the standard Dcoument for Inv management in SDN search.
you will get lot of help.
4) Should I extend the 0IC_C03 with these new custome KFs creating a new zcube or should I add only required fields in zcube.
If I follow the latter, will there be any impact on standard BF/UM runs as in If I load till PSA and from PSA I follow my customized update rules terminating into my customized cube?
~Best Practice and even SAP Recommends Make a ZCUBE and then enhance or customize to fullfill your rek.
No impact follow IM steps for BW.
Make sure you keep these things in Mind:
There are 3 SAP delivered transactional data sources for stock management.
2LIS_03_BX : Always needed to carry the initialization of the stocks.
2LIS_03_BF : Initialize this in source if you need historical data else an empty init can be done for this to load only future delta records. If the Source system is new then no need to do an initialization.
2LIS_03_UM : Only needed if revaluations are carried out in Source. This data source is helpful if adjustment in material prices is done time to time otherwise it wonu2019t extract any data.
2. Check list for source system. Needs to be carried out before initialization of the above 3 data sources .
A.   Table TBE11 : Maintain Entry u2018NDIu2019 with text u2018New Dimension Integrationu2019 and activate the flag(Note 315880)
B.   Table TPS01 : Entry should be as below(Note 315880)
PROCS u2013 01010001
INTERFACE - SAMPLE_PROCESS_01010001
TEXT1 u2013 NDI Exits Active
C.   Table TPS31 : Entry should be as below(Note 315880)
PROCS u2013 01010001
APPLK - NDI
FUNCT u2013 NDI_SET_EXISTS_ACTIVE
D.   Tcode u2013   MCB_
In most cases you need to set the industry sector as u2018standardu2019. For more info please see Note 353042
E.    Tcode u2013 BF11
Set the indicator to active for the Business warehouse application entry. This entry may needs to be transported to the production system. (Note 315880)
3. After running the setup data, check the data for the fields BWVORG, BWAPPLNM, MENGE. If no data available in these fields then some setting mentioned in the above checklist are missing in R/3. Correct the issue and rerun the setup data.
4. Data staging with DSO for BX extractor is not allowed. Data should directly load from extractor to Cube only once. Choose the extraction mode as u2018Initial Non-cumulative for Non-cumulative valuesu2019 in the DTP.
5. DSO is possible for BF. If you are creating a standard DSO then choose the fields MJAHR,BWCOUNTER,MBLNR,ZEILE as key fields. Some of these fields wonu2019t be available in the standard data source but the data source can be enhanced using LO Cockpit (LBWE) to add these fields. In addition to these other fields depending upon the DSO structure is also possible.
Note 417703 gives more info on this.
6. Point-5 is valid for UM also. The Key fields could be a combination of MJAHR,MBLNR,ZEILE,BUKRS fields. Note 581778
7. Data load to the cube should follow the below process
A.      Load the BX data. Compress the request with stock marker(uncheck the marker option).
B.      Load the BF and UM init data. Compress the loads without the stock maker(Check the marker option).
C.      The future delta loads from BF and UM should be compressed with Stock marker(uncheck the marker option).
8. If in future the cube needs to be deleted due to some issues then the load process should also be carried out as above. (only init of BF and UM should be loaded first and then the deltas should be processed)
9. To check the data consistency of a Non cumulative cube the standard program SAP_REFPOINT_COMPLETE can be used. To check the compression status of the cube the table RSDCUBE can be refered. Before the compression of BX request, the u2018REFUPDATEu2019 field should be blank and after the compression the value should become u2018Xu2019. Check Note 643687 for more info.
10. After BX data load to cube the data wonu2019t be visible by LISTCUBE. Only after compression the data can be seen by running a query on the Non cumulative cube.
~AK

Multiple content databases and Project Sites

Hi,
I am in the process of migrating our Project 2007 PWA + Project Workspaces data to Project 2010. Our PWA site and the Project Workspaces are in a single content DB (2007) and I am trying to work out what I should do when I migrate it. Our content
DB is about 150GB which I believe is around the maximum that it should be.
I am unsure about a couple of things.
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for large numbers of Projects and associated Project Sites this will almost certainly be a necessity.
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What appears to also have been suggested was to create a separate site collection for very large project sites.
While this approach could work, it is administration intense and is bound to have issues related to PWA navigation, etc...and certainly not part of the Project Server 2010 PWA automatic Site
Creation methodology. It also is after the fact and not really scalable. it would be possibe, but tricky to do this after the fact - moving it from one site collection to another - and then reset the URL in PWA Server Settings,
could be done.
I would suggest something similar, but a bit more pragmatic...Thanks Bruce!
Create 1 new Site Collection for Project Sites (same web app) in a new content DB - use script.
Setup PWA to provision all new Project Sites to that new site collection. Maintains automatic site provisioning.
Monitor
the size of the DB, when it reaches a reasonable limit (? 50GB ?) - repeat this process, create another site collection in a new DB - but
change the PWA provisioning settings to have all new sites go to the new (next) site collection. Existing sites will still be found (keep the site collections in the same web app for continuity) and can have content added (I guess up
to a point - monitor). Repeat as needed.
Another way I can conceive of is to create a fixed set of a small number of site collections (in the same web app) and manage the Project Site creation manually selecting which
project site goes against which site collection. Division along some logical boundary such as Departments makes sense. But other divisions may be used. This could scale by simply adding more site collections at each department (HR-2), should any given department's
DB grow too big. Then all the logically related Project Sites will hang off the site collection selected and be part of that database for that site collection for that "department" let's say.
just a variation of the above solution. Monitoring the DB size is key in both cases.
There may of course be caveats to any approach other than OOTB and all in 1 site collection, around navigation, web parts, solution starters, etc...some of which are addressed elsewhere. Of
course, this is admin intensive but retains automatic provisioning for new sites. I believe it would work and meet the requirements for smaller DB's and multiple Site collections for PWA Project Sites and scale to thousands of project sites.
Thanks,
Eric S.
Eric S.

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