Order management / Inventory management

Hi All,
I would like to learn more about these 2 modules from oracle EBS.
Can someone please recommend a good documentation? or something similar?
Appreciated in advanced!
Leandro

I hope you are referring a transfer order and the transfer between two storage locations connected to the same warehouse, and just not doing movement at IM level with a transfer order.
But, if you are referring to making a bin-bin transfer within the warehosue and you want to influence the storage location to storage location automatically, yes, you can do this. You should use 'storage location control' configuration under WM-IM interface to drive this. Essentially, you need to maintain the warehouse, destiantion storage type, plant, destination storage location and movement type 311. When you perform the transfer order confirmation to move inventory from a storage type (inventory is under source storage location) to the destination storage type (per the configuration setting) there will be an automatic transfer posting made to move inventory at IM level from source to desintation storage location.

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Can i transfer stock with transfer order in Inventory management?

Can i transfer stock with transfer order in Inventory management between two storage locations in the same plant?

I hope you are referring a transfer order and the transfer between two storage locations connected to the same warehouse, and just not doing movement at IM level with a transfer order.
But, if you are referring to making a bin-bin transfer within the warehosue and you want to influence the storage location to storage location automatically, yes, you can do this. You should use 'storage location control' configuration under WM-IM interface to drive this. Essentially, you need to maintain the warehouse, destiantion storage type, plant, destination storage location and movement type 311. When you perform the transfer order confirmation to move inventory from a storage type (inventory is under source storage location) to the destination storage type (per the configuration setting) there will be an automatic transfer posting made to move inventory at IM level from source to desintation storage location.

Integration SMP 3.0 and Inventory Manager 3.2 / 4.0

Hello,
I have a Little doubt. For an Implementation of Inventory Manager after I have installed/configured the SMP 3.0 or SMP 2.3, in order to actívate the Agentry for Inventory Manager, Do I have to install the Inventory manager server (Agentry Server) which I had downloaded with Inventory Manager Package from services marketplace? or Do I have to install Agentry server which came with SMP, and after that just configure the deployment package as application within the SMP? ... I'm a Little bit confused because I think these deployment files (bundle) are on the agentry server that came with the Inventory Manager package (that is why the question was raised) and if I do not install the Inventory Manager Server I wont be able to get this bundle. Another questions is: In case the inventory manager server must be installed in order to make the agentry / SMP integration work for this standard app, If after this implementation We want to develop /configure another agentry apps, Can I do this with the agentry server installed for Inventory Manager (Inventory Manager Server) and not the "generic" one that came with the SMP?
Please Help Manju Venkatesha Michael Appleby Steve Streeter Jason Latko
Best Regards,
Mariana

Hi Manju Venkatesha & Stephen Streeter
Let me see if I understood what you guys answered me on this post...
1.- The agentry server is built on SMP 3.0 & SMP 2.3 and the standalone server on SMP 2.3 is only configure for development. Now, I have a another question about this...
Q.- if I need to configure the agentry's development environment besides Inventory Manager Mobile App, Does the SMP 2.3 developer server need two agentry server (The one built within SMP and the standalone for development process)? or just standalone server? or just SMP Server with Agentry generic server built within?. I understood production environment only will have one... the "generic" agentry server... as Steven said "SMP 2.3 needs to be use for QA and production", but i have this question regarding development server.
2.- Manju, We can install either IM 3.2 or IM 4.0, the thing is we are reviewing what versión is better to implement So I need to clarify my doubts for implementation process on both versions. The steps you mentioned put me in context and gives me some lights about the process, now, when you wrote: "Download Inventory Manager from service marketplace (it comes exe file)", is this the mobile server called "Inventory Manager 3.2.0 Sever" for IM 3.2 / "SAP Inventory Manager 4.0.1 Deployment" for IM 4.0?. The confusion raised here because the wizard for the mobile server that comes with mobile application implementation package, it is almost the same of Agentry standalone server, besides the SAP Backend information, it's pretty much the same wizard. In fact I think it will create a file system directory similar to standalone agentry server... So, my question about this is:
Q.- If the answer to my previous question: Does the SMP 2.3 developer server need two agentry server (The one built within SMP and the standalone for development process)? , is yes… and as you remark on your steps I need to install this mobile server (exe file), Is this mean that I need to install three agentry server on the development server (generic, standalone, mobile server)?, What happen with the file system directory for the agentry standalone dev server and inventory manager mobile server? Do they will merge in one??? And if I need to modify the inventory manager mobile app: which agentry server will be my development environment?
The SMP 3.0 which has the agentry component integrated and does not need a standalone one will need the "mobile server", does it? (exe file within SAP Inventory Manager 4.0.1 Deployment I guess or Inventory Manager 3.2.0 Server) and what about if I need to customize something on IM 4.0? The changes will be publish directly to the agentry component within SMP 3.0?
Another thing, is the Inventory manager server (mobile server) will give me the jar file from which I can get the IM agentry project for Inventory manager mobile app customization?
I know I can be confusing on my questions but please help me understand
Thank you both for the information / help you could give me ...
Best Regards,
Mariana

Project wise Inventory Management

Hello
My client is in construction business. Following is the existing business process he follows :
1. Material is procured from the vendor and receive in inventory and then o demand it is released from the inventory to site of the project. (this scenario occurs rarely)
2.Material is procured from the vendor and send directly to the site of the project.
Note : One Project can have more than 1 site.
Please let me know how to map the above process in best manner.
thanks
Tomas

Hi Tomes......
As I mentioned, you can issue the material through Goods Issue via only one document but as you want toi maintain it more that one site create a UDF called Location/Site and you may manage goods issue onr row per site.
Let say if you want to issue material under project XYZ have three sites A, B And C
And Qty as 10 Nos/Kgs on Site A with Project XYZ, 20 Nos/Kgs on Site B with Poject XYZ and 15 Nos/Kgs on site C with Project XYZ
So OpenGoods Issue document and select itms on first line and select site in UDF as A and you can find Project column also activate it through Form Setting, there you select XYZ and give qty as 10Nos/Kgs.
Second line and select site in UDF as B and you can find Project column also there you select XYZ and give qty as 20 Nos/Kgs
Third line and select site in UDF as C and you can find Project column also there you select XYZ and give qty as 15 Nos/Kgs....
I guess this way you can manage Inventory management Proejct with different site wise under one Goods Issue document. And same is applicable for all the marketing docs......
Regards,
Rahul

Inventory Management with u0091Material Document No.u0092 and u0091Purchase order No.'

Hello,
We have defined Inventory Management InfoCube analog to 0IC_C03 without Material Document No. (R3 Field MBLNR) and Purchase order number (R3 Field EBELN). We are loading the data from standard extractor 2LIS_03_BX, 2LIS_03_BF and 2LIS_03_UM. It works fine. We have alreday read the whitepaper Inventory Scenarios in BW.
Question:
Now the Material Document No. and Purchase order number have to report in BEx. As ODS can not be built in Inventory Management, so we cant include these fields in ODS and update data from ODS into another InfoCube with Document No. or order number.
We dont want to include these fields Document No. and Order number. in existing InfoCube because of performance reason.
Could you tell me how we can implement such a scenario?
Thanks for the answer.
Best regards,
Moha

hi Moha,
perhaps check
Note 581778 - ODS capability of extractors from Inventory Management
Note 773823 - P25:ODS objects cannot be loaded with opening stock
hope this helps.

Inventory Management with u0091Material Document No.u0092 and u0091Purchase order No.u0092

Hello,
We have defined Inventory Management InfoCube analog to 0IC_C03 without Material Document No. (R3 Field MBLNR) and Purchase order number (R3 Field EBELN). We are loading the data from standard extractor 2LIS_03_BX, 2LIS_03_BF and 2LIS_03_UM. It works fine. We have alreday read the whitepaper Inventory Scenarios in BW.
Question:
Now the Material Document No. and Purchase order number have to report in BEx. As ODS can not be built in Inventory Management, so we cant include these fields in ODS and update data from ODS into another InfoCube with Document No. or order number.
We dont want to include these fields Document No. and Order number. in existing InfoCube because of performance reason.
Could you tell me how we can implement such a scenario?
Thanks for the answer.
Best regards,
Moha

hi Moha,
perhaps check
Note 581778 - ODS capability of extractors from Inventory Management
Note 773823 - P25:ODS objects cannot be loaded with opening stock
hope this helps.

Tracking sales, customer retention and Inventory management

Hi,
I own a t-shirt screen printing business and am looking for a solution to help me track sales, categorize customer information and manage inventory. I'm still relatively new to numbers 09 so I'm trying to determine if this program can help me achieve my desired end result.
I conduct two different types of business; wholesale printing and online sales.
I offer wholesale printing for local companies such as pizza shops, churches, family events etc. They typically have a design prepared and order 50+ t-shirts at a wholesale price. Pricing is determined by a lot of different factors such as; amount of t-shirts ordered, number of colors in print, number of print locations.
Online sales, refers to a line of t-shirts I created myself and sell directly to customers. I sell through multiple online mediums such as; etsy, ebay and my dot.com. Each of the sites I sell through has a different set of fees associated with the transaction. For example, when selling through etsy; for each transaction etsy takes a % of the sale, plus a predefined insertion fee for posting the listing. When a customer is making a purchase through etsy they have two payment options; etsy's direct check out, or to pay with paypal. When the customer opts to pay through etsy's direct check out; there is a % fee etsy charges, as well as a predefined processing fee (in addition to the original % fee and insertion fee I mentioned above). If a customer through etsy opts to pay with paypal while checking out, then there is a different % fee as well as processing fee that paypal will charge. Also, both etsy's and paypals checkout methods charge a different % fee and processing fee if the package is being shipped to an international destination. Ebay's fee structure is similar to etsy ie; a % fee and insertion fee, as well as a seperate % fee and processing fee that paypal charges.
Wholesale printing only makes up about 10% of my business so I can pretty easily track those sales as is. Retail sales makes up the other 90% of my business and has become difficult to manage.
Etsy, ebay and paypal all keep transaction details that can be downloaded in csv files. In the past I have found it difficult to organize all that information and make sense out of it because its coming from multiple sources. I'd like to have one program to track all my online sales and customer information and present in in a nice neat fashion.
That's where a program like numbers 09 comes into play, hopefully. To keep track of blank inventory I would like to organize and keep track of all the different blanks shirts i have in stock. Say for example I print on a blank gildan brand shirt that is called GL2000, I would like to have a category for the GL2000 as well as a sub category for the different colors of that shirt I have (blue, black, brown, green etc.), as well as another sub category for the different sizes (small-5xl) available in each of the different colors. I would like to have a separate spreadsheet listing all the finished goods (printed shirts), along with the sizes available for that design on hand. Then, when I print new shirts and enter them into the finished goods spreadsheet, I would like it to subtract that amount from the corresponding blank shirt spreadsheet. For example; I have some designs I print on brown shirts and I would need to create a formula that knows that that particular design is on a brown shirt and not green or some other color. That way as I print more shirts I will have a running inventory of both finished goods as well as what I still have left in stock as blank shirts.
Then I'd like a spreadsheet for me to enter in all the relevant sales data as it comes in. I was envisioning entering the data into that spreadsheed right as I'm shipping out the order. It makes perfect sense because all the information I'd like to track and organize is readily available on the screen when I am creating the shipping label. I would like the spreadsheet to keep track of; Sale date, ship date, item sold, item size, buyer id, transaction id, first name, last name, address, city, state, zip, country, price, coupon (if used), shipping, total (price + shipping), how much the shipping label cost, site item was sold on (ebay or etsy), etsy fee if sold on etsy (% of price + predefined insertion fee), ebay fee if sold on ebay (% of price + predefined insertion fee), refund (if applicable... also if a refund is issued, it would have to automatically adjust the total as well as fee, after entered), sales tax (would only apply if they entered the sate I do business out of in the state column), ebay processing fee, (for etsy transactions) a checkbox to inform the spreadsheet if the etsy transaction was paid through paypal or direct etsy check out (because of the different fees associated with each.) then a corresponding cell with the correct processing fee, it would also have to take into account which country the item was being shipped to and apply the correct fee associated with that country for either of the check out methods; etsy or paypal, then a total after all fees, then possibly a total of all fees paid.
Like I mentioned before, I'm relatively new to numbers 09. I have made some progress in creating the spreadsheets but feel there is a steep learning curve when defining some of the formulas and functions of the program. I'm still not sure if numbers 09 will be able to do all that I need it to do in the end, so I wanted to ask if it is possible before I continue working on it.
Any help would be appreciated. Are there any books I could study to learn the program better? I just picked the apple pro training series for iwork 09 but found the numbers section was mainly for beginners and didn't go over some of the more complex functions I'd like to learn about. I searched for other training material but couldn't find any.
If numbers 09 isn't a suitable program for what I'm trying to accomplish, any suggestions on what program to use? I've looked in to quick books but wasn't sure If I could do something similar with numbers. Thanks for taking the time to read.

Thanks a lot Mahesh for your reply. I just tried your answer: I've assigned the CRM Service User license to the user, on top of the CRM Sales user license. But still same problem.
Can you let me know where you can view the exact license chart? The link I have posted above seems a bit outdated as it does not reflect the actual license limitations.
Véronique

Urgent-Inventory Management in case of a glass or ply industry

A typical scenario.
I am facing a problem in inventory management for a client of mine who is into glass cutting and supply. The glass sheets are purchased in sheets from the vendor and is cut into various shapes and dimensions according to the order recieved by him. now in most of the cases the entire sheet is not used in a particular order. the remaining part which is not used goes to the inventory. Now for a next order all the remaining part may be used if it matches the lengthXBreadth specifications. So the inventory items should show the length X Width specification. The dimensions are not fixed and there may be "n" number of variables.
Example- A default sheets of sizes 10"X10" is purchased form vendor. Seperate shapes of 6"X4" and 4"X 4" is cut out from it. Then the remaining part will have a dimension of 6"X10", which goes to the inventory. Now whenever he will see te inventory report he should be able to see that 1qunty of 6"X10" is ther in the inventory. So that when if he recieves an order of 6"X8" or 6"X10" he can use that and save cutting a new sheet (10"X10"). This will minimise the wastages.
I had planed to do it by the area but then that does not solve the perpose as the inventory total will show the sum area of all the dimensions in the inventory in "sq@units". Makong item masters for different dimensions will involve a huge inventory management and the users may land up in making numerous masters evry day and also risk of the duplication of the same masters will prevail.
Please anyone who has done any implementation for such clients or of similar type or any one having a suitable solution to this issue........please help!!!

Debraj,
In that case the option you could try is to enable batches and store the size as a batch number
For example: The inventory could have 10 pieces of item A
Qty......Batch
..2.......6x10
..3.......6x8
..5.......6x6
Now when ever you want to add a cut piece of item A which is of size 6x10, you simply enter Batch 6x10 and this will not only increase stock by1 but also you now the visiblity of what the stock is made up of by running the Batch report.
If you want to do it in a much better way then you need to probably go with an AddOn
Suda

HU without inventory management and message L3778 in storage type 999

Hi experts,
Need suggestion on the process to add inventory of an HU with status 'HU without inventory Management'. This issue has occurred out of the below scenario:
1. our warehouse is HU & WM managed.
2. We have a transfer order for a delivery document requesting to pick up 100 cases of MAT1 which is assigned to HU1.
3. While confirming the transfer order user has confirmed difference for the full quantity of 100 because the SU/HU was not found in the bin.
4. The system has set the status of HU as 'HU without inventory Management'. The HU is empty.
5. system has moved the stock from the bin to difference storage type 999.
Now user has found the stock for this HU and he wants to post the stock back into the bin. system does not allow to move the stock back to bin using LT01 as we get error message 'L3 778'.
What will be the best practice to get the stock back into the bin and post the stock into the same old HU.
Is there a process wherein we can post this stock to another bin and repack into the old HU?
Thanks,
Harish

Thanks Manish on the hint. I was able to transfer stock to partner location and then bring back to original Storage type/Bin. Below steps was used to fixed the issue:
1. Initiate a transfer of stock from WM/HU Sloc where the IM stock resides into Sloc 9099. An outbound delivery is created during this process.
2. Create a transfer order with reference to delivery and pick the stock from 999 storage type.
3. Create a Pick HU using LH01 and assign the HU on the pallet to the transfer order.
4. Confirm the transfer order using LT12.
5. Perform PGI for the delivery.
6. Use HUMO to display the HU and then you can transfer the stock back to WM/HU location using the storage location transfer option available on the HUMO screen(EDIT à change HU posting à Storage location)
7. Perform Bin to bin transfer to move the SU from 921 storage type to putaway the HU/SU back to the destined Storage type/Bin.
Best Regards,
Harish

Error "Material not subject to inventory management in Plant " on the STO

I want to create a Stock tansport order ( plant to plant transfer) with stock & non-stock item and non stock item is giving an error "Material not subject to inventory management in Plant". Please tell me how to clear this error. Plant / SLOC view is already maintained and no qty/value update selected on the material type because of non stock item. Please tell me how to overcome this error on the STO

Hello,
As you said you want to move nonstock item through STO.
It seems that in your case say for example your plant 1000 has material ABC which is maintained as stock item.
Now you have another plant 2000, whaich has same material ABC which is maintained as non-stock item (generally used in third party sales or cross docking).
If your material ABC is nonstock in plant 2000 where no stocks are mainatined, then how can you move the stock to plant 1000 where it is stock item.
Could you please confirmthat can you see the stock in MMBE for plant where that material is maintained as non stock item.
If so, then you have chnage the plant specific material status for that plant from non stock item to stock item.
This is maintained in material master in purchasing view.
The other way out is you have to third party sales with ship to party as the plant where that item is maintained as stock item.
In this case flow is
Sales order>>Purchase requistion>>Purchase order>>(Vendor supplies material directly to customer (which is you plant where that item is stock item))
Br,
Tushar
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Using Inventory Management in BI

We are trying to make use of inventory data in BI. Weu2019ve installed business content for the cube 0IC_C03 and followed the steps in u2018How tou2026 Handle Inventory Management Scenarios in BWu2019 to get the data to the cube. The best I can understand I've loaded and compressed in the right order.
When we run a report it only seems to be reporting on the opening balance as defined in the 2LIS_03_BX load. It does not appear to be looking at the material movements as loaded in 2LIS_03_BF to calculate balances in the past. We installed from business content the Stock Overview report. Here is a sample of what Iu2019m seeing when drilled into a specific material that I know had inventory movements in 07 & 08 of 2008:
06/2008 1,002 EA
07/2008 1,002 EA
08/2008 1,002 EA
09/2008 1,002 EA
10/2008 1,002 EA
Anybody have any suggestions on what I need to look at? My understanding was that the query would used the material movements to calculate the balances for those months.
Thanks,
Chris

Hi,
If you followed the steps correctly you must get the correct values in BW report and it will match with MB5B in ECC.
Do like this...
If you have any opening stock problem, please run the report
SAP_REFPOINT_COMPLETE and select Insert of Missing Records
and then check the data in the cube.
While checking data in MB5B, you need to give proper selections i.e. date and check valuated stock radio button.
Note: check what are date ranges that are you are giving in BW report and in ECC
Thanks
Reddy

Inventory Management in Excel or Access?

Hi, I am trying to create a functional inventory system for my stock room... I have been looking at templates and haven't found something that looks suitable for the programs we have on hand -- Excel 2010 being the primary choice, but I also have access
to (but limited familiarity with) Access. I see SharePoint is a good system and has a few threads in these forums, but I don't have it!
Currently there is no formal process, just receiving and distributing goods. I have at least started a spreadsheet to track who is taking what/when/for what purpose - but this doesn't help to show how much we have/when to reorder, or how much we had in the
first place to check back that no inventory went missing, etc.
Problems I'm trying to fix:
need to know how much stock is on hand (ideally without having to schedule a routine physical count)
need to track where inventory is going
Bonuses:
want to be able to include all relevant supplier information per product (i.e. supplier, cost, product #, notes)
want to be able to see when stock reaches a certain level (prompt or notification to reorder)
Is there a solution out there for me?

Hi,
According to your description, your required could be done via Access
inventory system database.
It'll help you handle inventory tracking of your product stock, suppliers, employees, purchase orders and sales.
More reference:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/access-help/cut-expenses-manage-inventory-and-ship-effectively-by-using-the-goods-web-database-template-HA102430359.aspx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8NPcA7UIRI
Please Note: Since the web site is not hosted by Microsoft, the link may change without notice. Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy of this information.
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George Zhao
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Prod issue with Inventory management in BW ..please help

hi Folks
i am new into inventory management extraction into BW. i have read all the document regarding the extraction. My question is
1. what all the comon produciton issues you wil come across when you do the inventory management
2. what is the dificlut challenge you face during extraction and validation
3. what all things you need to consider or keep in mind while doing this process
4. what is pros and cons of this process ..any bettar way to improve this process?
please shoot me your thougths ..which will helpfull for my new task..

My Dear Friend...
Typical Steps for refreshing your understanding :
1. Transfer Business Content Datasources 2LIS_03_BX , 2LIS_03_BF, AND 2LIS_03_UM in RSA5.
2. Go to Transaction LBWE, Activate Datasources 2LIS_03_BF, AND 2LIS_03_UM.
3. Go to Transaction MCB_ select SAP BW usage 'Standard' Radio button.
4. Save it.
5. Go to Transaction MCNB, enter name of run Stock_init. Enter Termination date in future. Enter Datasource as 2LIS_03_BX.
6. Execute the initialization.
7. Entries can be found in SETUP Table MC03BFSETUP & MC03BFSETUP.
8. Run SETUP for 2LIS_03_BF, AND 2LIS_03_UM using TCodes OLI1BW and OLIZBW respectively.
ALWAYS LOAD in order as BX datasource first then BF datasource and then UM datasource in cube
9. Run the extraction for 2LIS_03_BX in BW.
10. Compress the request with No Marker Update NOT SET i.e. unticked or unchecked.
11. Run the extraction for 2LIS_03_BF in BW.
12. Compress the request with No Marker Update SET i.e. ticked or checked.
13. Run the extraction for 2LIS_03_UM in BW.
14. Compress the request with No Marker Update SET i.e. ticked or checked.
Steps 1 and 2 shall be executed in Development and transported to production and step 3 onward should be carried out in Production itself with posting Block.
And about Reconcilitation of data ...Count the number of records in R/3 in particular table and check with BW is its matching...When you request in Detail Tab you can find the number of records...
Then check if the balances are matching in R/3 and BW...saying for ex: Check opening Stock for today in both the systems...
If you follow the process properly I dont think you will face any issues...I havent ever seen any complication in Inventory loading...Dont worry...Just follow the typical LO Extraction steps...All Good
Regards...
Sandhya

What are tables in Inventory Management in SAP-MM

Hi all,
i would like to know the nemes of tables in SAP-MM Inventory Management. Plz provide me ur help.
Thanks....
Bandhan

Hi Bandhan,
Below are the some tables used for IM.
MSEG -Material document / transaction details
MKPF - Material document header information
MARD - Material stock
MBEW -Material stock with valuation
MSKA -Stock balance with associated sales
EKUB -Index for Stock Transport Orders for
MDUB -Material Reading View of Stock Transport Ord. for|
MKOL-Special stocks- Consignment, material provided to

MM-Based inventory management & Replenishment -based Inventory Management

Hi,
Can any one through me some light on the difference between "MM-Based inventory management" & "Replenishment -based Inventory Management" in IS-Retail.
Is it something related to planning, If so what is the difference.
Thanks in Advance,
Shakthi Rajkumar.

Hi
In retail scenario the replenishment can happen in two ways
(1) From DC to Stores
(2) Directly from vendor to Distribution center.
However the above two scenarios follow the following push / pull strategy to replenish the material.
Case 1 : From DC to Stores
How the push occurs ?
Store orders/sales orders
Automatic store orders/sales orders from different POS system
Auto replenishment
How the pull occurs ?
Allocation of merchandise purchased
Case 2 : Directly from vendor to Distribution center.
How the push occurs?
Reorder point planning
Forecast based planning
Time phased planning
How the pull occurs?
Allocation
Manual purchase orders
Hope this clarifies your doubts how the replenishment happens in retail scenario
Reward if useful
Regards
edwin

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