Minimum safety stock

Hi,
I maintained minimum safety stock as-50 in MRP2 view while creating material master, my client requirement is this minimum safety stock should not be issued at any cost, without enhancement from abap consultant i need to maintain this safety stock.
can anyone help me to cose this issue.

Hi,
Minimum Safety Stock
The quantity that defines the lower limit for safety stock. This value cannot be exceeded.
Use
Defining a lower limit can influence the following:
material master data maintenance
The safety is checked to see if it is greater or equal to this lower limit.
forecasting
The lower limit is checked if you use an availability indicator which shows, according to customizing settings, if the safety stock is to be calculated again in a forecast.
If the safety stock is lower than this level in forecasting, the safety stock is automatically increased to the value of the lower level.
Dependencies
The safety stock must always be greater or equal to this lower level.
Hope this helps.
Revert if you need more details.
Regards,
Tejas

Similar Messages

Approval hierarchy to issue Minimum safety stock

Hi Guys,
We have a requirement to have an automated approval hierarchy for issuing the inventory below a safety stock limit defined. How can we achieve that. I know that there is some option as "minimum safety stock" in SAP, but we need that a workfklow to be activated when the stock reaches to this level and only after approval it should be allowd to be issued. Is it possible to implement?

Hi,
There is no approval concept in this case. But you may check the below work around, Activate availability check for the material. Then you may maintain the message M7181 as user specific and maintain it as error message for the users who are NOT supposed to issue the goods below the safety stock. Refer the thread: message to be make error for specific user id
You may create a program to find the materials with stock equal to safety stock and send the result. You may schedule the job in background with specific interval. Also refer the thread: Material alert workflow
Regards,
AKPT

Inventory Report for current stock and Safety, Minimum etc stock levels

Hi,
Is there any report available to view the current stock against the minimum, safety stock levels so that the user can plan further actions accordingly. Can anyone please guide me on this.
Thanks in Advance.
Regards,
Laxmi

Hi Shailesh,
Is there any way we can include some extra fields into this MC.9 report - i tried but could not find anything. Can you please help.
Regards,
Laxmi

APO and minimum safty stock

Hello,
in R/3 we maintain for some products the minimum safty stock field.
Is it within the standrd possible to get this field over to APO. I saw there a field min safty stock but it's still empty.
kind regards,
Bernhard

Hi Bernard,
This field is used as a check criterion for the safety stock value to be maintained in the material master. If the safety stock maintained is lower than this value, then it updates the safety stock to this value in material master. As safety stock is transferred to APO as SB method then this minimum safety stock value ensures that atleast this value is taken into consideration during planning.
Let me know if it helps.
Regards
Gaurav

Safety stock and min safety stock

Dear all,
CAn anybody explain me the functional difference between safety stock and min safety stock?
And what is the meanng of safety time?
Karthick

Hi,
Safety Stock:
The quantity of stock to satisfy high requirements. The purpose of the safety stock is to prevent material shortage.
Safety stock as the name suggest is the stock level till which the dead stock or stock out situation will not arise (probable figure based on past data maintained in master).
As such this figure is not stock, it is cut-off figure maintained in master which is used for Planning and once the stock level dips below this value, you can configure system to generate PR, orders automatically. It has its relevance in MRP and CBP.
Safety stock is not used in production.
Minimum Safety Stock
    The quantity that defines the lower limit for safety stock. This value cannot be exceeded.
    The safety is checked to see if it is greater or equal to this lower limit.
    The lower limit is checked if you use an availability indicator which shows, according to customizing settings, if the safety stock is to be calculated again in a forecast. If the safety stock is lower than this level in forecasting, the safety stock is automatically increased to the value of the lower level.
The safety stock must always be greater or equal to this lower level (minimum safety stock)
Hope this will help help you.
Regards,
Pavan

MRP - project stock - safety stock

Hello,
My MRP plans on a project stock.
When I try to fill in the field "safety stock" in material master data MRP plans the safety amount on unrestricted use stock. I would like it to be planned on a specified project.
Do you know how to do it?
Best regards
Piotr

Hi,
procurement for safety stcok will always happen wo ac assignment. So you may have look for use of some other parameters like lot sizing or minimum lot size fields etc.
Regards
Vineet

Dynamic Safety Stock - Custom logic

Hi,
Are there any exits / enhancements where we can build customer specific logic to periodically update Safety Stock values in the Material Master (MRP Area)?
Thanks.
Raj

Hi,
Thanks for your response.
We want to maintain a Minimum Stock Level at various Storage Locations periodically. However the value is computed based on certain historical values (and not mere consumption). There is an industry logic which will compute this figure.
We need to find a solution to compute this figure as per logic and use it in MRP for planning along with other requirements (such as Reservations, Customer Orders, Forecast etc.,). Since the count of parts and associated historical values are quite high, computing this offline is tedious.
Is there a better way to address this without Z - Devpt.?
I can provide any other info if reqd.
Thanks.
Raj

Issue with -ve safety stock not allowing items of smaller demand to be isue

We have a material with a safety stock value of 300 with only 119 available in inventory. Looking at MD04 the available qty immediately goes negative (-181). We have requirement of 30 but was prevented by the system from ussing the material - no iventory available message. The workaround, which is not acceptable, was to reduice the safety stock to zero, create the delivery and then re-instate the safety stock level back to 300.
So the issue is that material could not be issued to PrdOrds. Is there a possibilty that we have some missing config / master data settings that are preventing the issuing of material when safety stock is factored in and available quantity is less than zero?

From planning perspective, there are two options available for your scenario.
You may try if the dynamic safety stock works for you. You may have to configure the minimum, maximum and target stock levels. The system calculates the average daily requirements of the material and determines the proposals.
If your business process demands only static ss, you can configure the % share of ss that can be used for smaller requirements. Check the config node Production >> MRP >> Planning >> MRP calculation >> Stocks >> Define SS availability. This way the smaller requirements would be considered for use from SS by planning. You will have to define the % share of SS that can be used by planning based on MRP groups.
Edited by: Arun.CBE on Feb 17, 2012 9:25 AM

Dynamic Safety Stock Calculation

Dear All,
We have set Dynamic Safety stock for finish good.
Below is the screen snap for Coverage profile for your reference,
After MRP we have get results as shown in below screen,
Also find Monthly results for the same in below screen,
Can anybody who has worked or Dynamic Safety stock please explain the calculation in detail for this scenario.
Thanks,
Narresh

Hello Naresh
Regarding the coverage profile calculation, I'd like to ask you to go through the following notes, which explain the range of coverage usage in MRP in detail:
217144 - Range of covrage calc. w/ range of coverage profile
217080 - Documentation: range of coverage in MRP
Let me explain to you in more detail the range of coverage calculation during the MRP run.
Calculating the range of coverage serves to determine a dynamic safety stock level based on current requirements. Statistical, in this context, means it is not the actual requirements that are taken into account, but the average daily requirements within a defined period that are calculated by the system.
MRP will execute the following procedure:
The system calculates the average daily requirements using theparameters defined in the range of coverage profile
The system reads the defined ranges of coverage in the range of coverage profile and calculates the minimum, maximum and target range of coverage (see Calculating the Minimum, Maximum and Target Stock Level and Values of the Statistical Range of Coverage Calculation). Thetarget stock level represents the safety stock level.
System checks for every MRP element whether the available quantity is below the minimum stock level. If stock falls below the minimum stock level due to a requirement, the system creates a procurement proposal and thus calculates the procurement quantity, so that the available quantity is replenished up to the target stock level.
BR
Caetano

Dynamic Safety stock calculation based on Future Requirements

Dear All PP experts
Our company wants to calculate the Dynamic Safety stock based on requirements in future period. Based on Standard SAP, it calculates dynamic stock based on current period only. So is there any way to do that. We are using MRP type PD.

Use MRP type VM(Automatic reorder point plng) for Dynamic safety stock calculation.
Also you can use coverage profile calculating dynamic safety stock.
Use Tcode OMIA to define the coverage profile.
For example if you have defined a minimum range of coverage of 3 days, a maximum range of coverage
of 7 days and a target range of coverage of 5 days.
The system calculates the following:
Minimum stock level = 3 x 15 pieces = 45 pieces
Maximum stock level = 7 x 15 pieces = 105 pieces
Target stock level = 5 x 15 pieces = 75 pieces
The available quantity is 40 pieces and is therefore less than the minimum stock level. Therefore, the system creates a procurement proposal for 35 pieces (= target stock level 75 pieces u2013 actual quantity of 40 pieces) during the planning run.
Regards
S.Senthil

Refill safety stock based on a certain leadtime

Hello,
is there a way to refill / replenish your safety stock based on a certain leadtime ?
as now MRP requests to get in components today or in a week , while they have a leadtime of several weeks.
for example :
i have put a fixed safety stock of 300 pcs on a component.
This component has a leadtime of 5 weeks
i received an order for 50 pcs to be delivered in 1 week.
So we ship this from our safety stock.
Now MRP is creating demand to get 50 new pieces of this component to be delivered in 1 week ( to fill up again the safety to 300 pcs )
But i would like that MRP asks to order this component on the leadtime of 5 weeks
As it will not be possible to get this component in on 1 week.
best regards

Thanks Avinash for your reply,
i also noticed that safety stock gets the highest priority demand and that's probably why i couldn't find a solution using safety stock.
Is there an other way how i should handle this?
Is there a way where a replenishment in oracle is done based on leadtime?
as i mentioned before, i want to get my stock automaticly replenished based on a component/product leadtime when i get under a certain stock level.
I'm currently thinking to change the planning to min-max planning or reorderpoint planning and as soon as my stock comes under the minimum level, oracle will propose to refill the stock. But also here i don't know if oracle will use the leadtime to create new demand.
i still need to test this.

Safety stock data update in APO product master

Hi Gurus
I have an active IM for a product . when i change the safety stock in R/3 , the same is not getting updated in APO. The method maintianed is SB
Please suggest

Finally i need to apply the below code in Exit EXIT_SAPLCMAT_001
INCLUDE ZXCIFU01 *
IF CT_CIF_MATLOC IS REQUESTED.
if no saftystock-method is explicitly set
use method 'SM' if safty stock & time is transfered
use method 'SB' if only safty stock is transfered
use method 'SZ' if only safty time is transfered
LOOP AT CT_CIF_MATLOC.
LOOP AT CT_CIF_MATLOCX WHERE MATNR = CT_CIF_MATLOC-MATNR AND
LOCNO = CT_CIF_MATLOC-LOCNO.
CT_CIF_MATLOCX-MSDPSBMETH = 'X'.
*APO und R/3: Safety stock
IF CT_CIF_MATLOCX-SAFTY = 'X' AND
NOT CT_CIF_MATLOC-SAFTY IS INITIAL.
*APO: Safety days' supply R/3: Safety time/act.cov.
IF CT_CIF_MATLOCX-SVTTY = 'X' AND
NOT CT_CIF_MATLOC-SVTTY IS INITIAL.
*Maximum of stock und safety time
CT_CIF_MATLOC-MSDPSBMETH = 'SM'."Maximum
ELSE.
*Safety Stock
CT_CIF_MATLOC-MSDPSBMETH = 'SB'.
ENDIF.
ELSE.
IF CT_CIF_MATLOCX-SVTTY = 'X' AND
NOT CT_CIF_MATLOC-SVTTY IS INITIAL.
*Safety days' supply
CT_CIF_MATLOC-MSDPSBMETH = 'SZ'.
ENDIF.
ENDIF.
MODIFY CT_CIF_MATLOC.
MODIFY CT_CIF_MATLOCX.
ENDLOOP.
ENDLOOP.
ENDIF.
Thanks all for the input

Report for Reorder point, safety stock, current stock and fixed lot size

Hi,
Purchasing Dept. is looking for a report which can give list of materials falling below the reorder point, so that they can go ahead and create procurement proposals for those materials.
They also want to see the Reorder Point, Safety Stock, current stock and fixed lot size in the same report.
Let me know if there ia any standard report availbale which displays the same or any approach to get the same.
Thanks in Advance.
Regards,
Shankar Goud.

Hi,
There is no standard report because this is meant to be managed by the MRP run.
The MRP lists show all materials that have a problem (such as stock below reorderpoint) but MRP generates requirements for these anyway and so all you need to do is to look for the MRP generated requirements (requisitions?) and you have your list?
Are you using MRP?
If so then please use the standard functions in MRP to get this.
If not, then WHY NOT?
Steve B

Report on current stock and safety stock

Hi,
I want to have the report on current stock and safety stock.
In MC.9 it gives wrong safety stock. When I go to cross check the safety stock in material master & in MC.9 I see differences.
Thanks,
Kiran

You can user tcode MC.9 or MC.5 to know valuated stock available at given plant. Stock lying in Returns (MB52) will not be a part of this report as it non-valuated stock.
The stock in the accounting view of the material master considers stock at plant level including stock in Transit (Intra & Inter plant stock trasnfers) & special stock like stock issued to vendor , consigment stock etc which is valuated at plant level.
whereas and stock in the plant stock view of the material master does not consider such special stocks hence there will always difference in both veiws.
For Physical stock as on particular date you can consider MB5B report with radio button "Storage location/Batch Stock" wherein you will get Quantity issued & Qunatity received in those SLOC along with Opening stock & Closing stock for the specified period.
use tcode
MBLB to know stock at vendor.
MB54 - Consignment Stock.

Safety stock not covered by schedule lines in planning run

Hi !
In our organization we are trying to implement scheduling agreements and automatic creation of delivery schedule lines through MRP. We have MRP type PD and it considers the reservations created by PM orders and Production orders as requirement elements. When I do the planning run, it creates schedule lines for the PM order reservations and purchase requisition for safety stock. I need it to create schedule lines for all scenarios. Kindly help and suggest a solution.
Regards,
Satya

Hi,
Please refer the below links.
Schedule Lines not getting created in MRP
Re: No Scheduling line is generated when RUN MRP
Hope it helps you.
Thanks.

Minimum safety stock

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for