Item Category TAB recognise unrestricted stock

Folks,
we have item category TAB on our back to back sales orders and will create an individual pourchase order.
However, there are occassion when there is stock and we want the ATP check to consider and not necessarily create a purchase req.
is there any way to achieve this?
Or because TAB has Special stock indicator "E" type it is standard SAP and will always not consider stock?
Thanks

Hi Milton,
Normally in such scenario the process followed is different.
When you have stock of the material with you then its no longer a individual requirement. It will be a normal sales process. For that you have to have item category TAN.
so, during sales order creation you have 'tan' and if availablity check runs and finds stock not available, then the user will manually change the item category to 'TAB'. and then the individual requirement will start.
For this the item category TAB should be assigned at the 'manual' column in Item cat determination
This is normal std process.
In standard TAB is used for materials with General item category ' BANC'. for such material, there is not availablity check activated, so it wont look at stock.
IF this does not answer your question, then give more detail about your business scenario.
Regards
Jobi

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ATP check for item category TAB

Folks,
we have item category TAB on our back to back sales orders and will create an individual pourchase order.
However, there are occassion when there is stock and we want the ATP check to consider and not necessarily create a purchase req.
is there any way to achieve this?
Or because TAB has Special stock indicator "E" type it is standard SAP and will always not consider stock?
Thanks

The purchase requisition is automatically created, there's no availability check behind item category "TAB". The stock is managed in the special stock segment (sales stock).
If the case when the stock is available is exception, you could change the item category manually to a normal one (e.g. TAN).
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp60_sp/helpdata/en/48/66b65334e6b54ce10000000a174cb4/content.htm?frameset=/en/51/66b65334e6b54ce10000000a174cb4/frameset.htm&current_toc=/en/30/67b65334e6b54ce10000000a174cb4/plain.htm&node_id=186&show_children=false

Item Category TAB is not looking for Special Stock.

Hello,
We have an issue while using item category TAB. For sales orders having item category TAB is allowing to create the Delivery note even though there is no stock received (GOODS RECEIPT) and assigned against this sales order stock.
Ideally the system should not allow to create the Delivery note. However it is allowing to create the Delivery note.
Checked the correspoding Schedule line that was determined : CB.
CB in VOV6 the correct settins were made as below.
The checks for
Sched.line cat.        CB    Indiv.Purchase Order
Movement Type         601   GD goods issue:delvy
Order Type                NB    Purchase requisition
Item Category             0     Standard
Acct Assgt Cat.         M     Ind. cust. w/o KD-CO
Incompl.proced.       31    Sched.Line w/PurReq.
Here we have the purchase requistion number on the schedule line tab, and in VBAP could see the it as a special stock item with the indicator E.
Ideally the flow is ONLY when the GOODS RECEIPT has done against this sales order stock, then the system should allow to create the deilvery.
Checked the copy control settings in VTLA and for TAB the Data transfer routine is 101.
Please help to understand why the system allows to create delivery when there is no GR made against this.
Thanks in advance.
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Hi Navaneeth,
Thanks for your response.
What i need is the SYSTEM SHOULD NOT allow me to create the Delivery. In this case it is allowing me to create the Delivery.
VOV7-TAB-> Special stock indicator is set as 'E'.
Inspite of it is set as E the system is allowing and ONLY at the time of PGI it is looking for special stock and pops up with the error message:
Sales order stock 6941 000010 does not exist
Message no. M7184
I expect the system should not allow to create the delivery at first chance.
Please help if it requires any other settings?
Best Regards,
Ram

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All,
I am configuring for the first time utilizing Sales Document Item category "TAB" - Individual Purchase Order. I have a few questions:
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Hi Reazuddin,
What I don't understand is why:
if I don't create PO --> I can create Outobund Delivery in Individual Purchase Order but if I create PO (not MIGO) I cannot create OBD in IPO. (Note: in both cases I agree PGI is not possible)
The flowchart is: Sale Order (IPO) --> Purchase Requisition --> Purchase Order (PO) --> MIGO (inbound delivery) --> MIRO (Vendor invoice verification) --> Outbound delivery ( delivery [OBD] + picking + posting[PGI]) --> Sales Invoice
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System will not stop you to create delivery, though you customize delivery item cat: as Check min qtty "0" - error message. because system checks for PGI qtty, but not the delivery qtty.
But then in the case I create Sale order (IPO) + PO (without MIGO) --> the system should not stop me executing Outbound Delivery. It should stop me only if I execute Posting goods issue. But actually in this case, the system is stopping me at outbound delivery.
I agree with Posting Goods Issue behaviour. It is logical in the following cases:
Only Sale order (IPO) created --> PGI is not possible
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Sale Order (IPO) created + PO created + MIGO executed (inbound) --> PGI is possible.
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Please provide me a quick response.

HI,
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Automatic delievry with item category TAB

Hi gurus,
we have a requirement where we are using the Item category TAB for creation of purchase requistion.BUt we want the automatic delivery also be created in the background for this item category.
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Hi,
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Hi All,
I have a query,
When components are assigned to a maintenance order whose item category is "L" (Stock Item).
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Hi Thyagarajan,
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"You can plan materials that are required to execute the task for each operation in the maintenance order. The materials can be bill of material components for the reference object or freely assigned material.
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Dear All,
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Dear Chee Wee,
Basically tem category will determine based on these key combination
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As per your explanation
I hope In your case stock availability also one of the factor in the item category determination.This might have done some enhancement.
There are two item categories in your process one is "NoPo" --> No Auto Po creation and second one is "AuPO" --> AutoPo creation.
the system automatic changed to "NoPO", but when i change the order qty to 70, then i'm able to changed the itemcat to "AuPo"!!
60 Qty Stock available, you have created sales order for 50 Qt here requirement is less than stock availability so system will not allow you to enter AuPo item category Because there no need of auto PO creation for stock.
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Dear,
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