Storage Tanks Inspection

Dear All,
I want to make the quality inspection of storage tanks. following is the scenerio.
we are a chemical industry, there are different storage tanks like TK-1A,TK-203A. We test one parameter once a day to check the quantity in storage tank or you can say storage tank inspection once a day, this parameter (Concentration) result is used by MM to get the storage tank quantity through some kind of formula.
How this inspection can be made.
thanks in advance.

HI Sohil,
You can create the Two tank and Two No Valuated material. Make General Data and Inspection only. Activate Recurring Inspection and scedule one Inspection a day.
Create One MIC Quantity for the material Inspection plan, and do inspection against it.
Regards,
Neeraj Bhadauria

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Quality INspection of Storage Tank Material

Dear experts,
I have the following scenario in QM.
We are a chemical industry. we have different storage tanks((TK101A)) for like caustic soda. we are making in process inspection and inspection at the time of GR and it creates inspection lot of 04. Now we want, suppose storage tank has quantity 100 ton before GR from production, when we do GR of 30 ton it will add in previous 100 ton and it will make 130 ton available in storage tank, at this time inspection lot of 04 will be of 30 ton as GR is of 30. but my client want to make inspection of 100+30=130 ton.
what can be the solution?
thanks and regards

Dear Sohail
Couldnt find any standard solution. but just giving a work around
Activate inspection point in the inspection plan header. you may use 130 as inspection point.
In config maintain the following setting -
SPRO > QM> Quality Planning> Inspection Planning>General> Define Identifier for Inspection Points> 130> in fields maintain instead of container as storage tank (Number length 10) and in Number length 3 maintain quantity.
So when you do the result recording for 50L in inspection lot you can put details like which is the storage tank and what is the quantity input ( eg 100L+50L=150L)
You can get this detail and prepare a report also
Hope this helps
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gajesh

Availability check on storages in sales order and delivery documents

Hi all,
I'm verifying if it's possible to find a standard or a custom solution for this type of problem:
I have a scenario in which there are more storages relevant for MRP (ex. 01, 02, 03, 04), and, in if I check availability in sales order or delivery (using checking rules "A" or "B") with setting which considering storages location inspection in availability check control, system check if there's stock available on all these storages.
I'm trying to verify if it's possible to consider only some on these storages (ex. 01 and 03 only) in sales order and delivery documents availablity check.
I know that in sales order storage location field is normally filled only using exit, but i don't know if it's possible to do, using a user exit, check availability considering only some storages and not all. At delivery level i have tried to use stock strategy, but this functionality don't have consequences on availability check, also if it's relevant during good issue phase.
Any suggestion will be appreciated.
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Gianpaolo

Hi Gianpaolo,
We had some issues with availability check on a Customer Site.
I don't remember right now if we had to exclude storage locations from MRP to take them out from ATP, but I guess Shiva is 100% correct.
At the end, what was done was to always "force" a unique storage location in the sales order item, which will be the storage location used for shipping of the delivery of course.
If you use WM in your plant, then you will have no problem in having a unique storage location, so no problem.
Anyway you are correct in your analysis, if the Storage location is not informed in the sales order item, then all the plant stock is taken in account for ATP.
Best Regards,
Franck
Freelance Logistics SAP Consultant

Availability check with storage location

Hi experts,
I have one problem in availability check.I will explain in steps.
There are two storage locations
RMMU: main storage location where GR will happen from vendor.
WPMU:WIP storage location from where material will be issued to production order.
A is fert material.
B is bom item (raw material) and in material master maintained WPMU production storage location.
Now after sales order(100 nos) and after mrp run we will get the Planned order for 100 nos and Purchase requisition for 100 nos for material B.Now we will do the GR for "B" in Storage location RMMU.
Now we will create the Production order for ''A''.After availability check in production order ,it will show the material availability.
The problem is that we maintained the prod.storage location as "WPMU''and in that no stock is there.It is in RMMU.Still it is giving availability of material.
Requirement is it check the stock in prod.storage location i.e. WPMU
Please throw some light on it.
Thanks in advance.
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VILAS

Find out your checking rule maintained in Order Control OPJK for your order type and plant combination for both
Create(1) and Release purpose.
Then in t.code OPJJ and for that Checking rule and Checking group combination(Maintain in material Master) go to detail screen and don't activate check box for No Storage location inspection.
In this case system will check the available stock in Production storage location only.If it is not maintain then system will check at plant level in all storage locations.
If production storage location is not maintained either in material master or in BOM then maintain it.
karthick

Storage resource

Hi all,
In process Industry we got intermediate storage is there for the phase.
In a process Order operation wise confirmation happens.
But we want to capture the phase wise qty in a specific storage location. with that we can calculate the exact consumption of input material
the tank level will be taken in the morning and with that level difference plant manager can calculate the consumption figure of input material. how can ai map that storage tank and level in SAP.
Regards
suresh

HI
A storage resource is a storage location or production unit that has both the characteristics of a resource and a storage location. It is used for intermediate storage of materials. Temporary storage of material in a production process can either be required between operations that follow each other chronologically within a production stage or between several production stages.
There are two types of storage resources:
Storage resource, on which no production process takes place (resource category Storage)
This storage resources can have an available capacity and material stock assigned to it. Its available capacity is defined in the unit volume/quantity.Storage resources that are only for storage are assigned to the material flow directly in the master recipe or in the process order.
Storage resource, at which a production process takes place (resource category Processing unit / Storage)
This storage resources can also be planned as far as time is concerned and material movements take place on it. Its available capacity is defined both in a time unit and in volume/quantity.
Storage resources that are also processing units are copied to the master recipe (or process order) as primary resources.
Use
A storage resource that is only used for storage serves as an intermediate storage location for materials and is used to avoid bottlenecks in production planning.
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Krishna Mohan

Storage location to be excluded from availability check

Hi,
Our requirement is to exclude a storage location for availability check. Certain user exits are listed under programs FV45VFZZ / FV45VFZY / RV03VFZZ. Can any of them be used to block a storage location. If so what is the code to be written.
Regards,
KC

Dear Krishna,
Go to the transaction OVZ9 - carry out Availability check.
Select the requirement, Individual/Collective with the checking rule as A or B, where you want to stop the checking of Storage location and double clik.
Inside there is a tab Storage location inspection - there activate the checkbox.
Hope this helps. Reward points if satisfied.
Thanks and regards.
Augustine Ponraj.

Storage capacity to be considered in planning

Hello PP Gurus,
A liquid product is produced and has to be stored in a specific storage tank. The product has to be produced as per the requirements from SOP. At the same time, it has to consider the capacity of storage tank. (Goods issue from the tank happens in a irregular fashion & I am using PP-PI).
Do you have any suggestions on how to consider this storage constraint in the planning cycle?
Do we have any workaround such as a message during planned order/process order?
Thanks in advance,
G.Madhvaraj.

Hello,
I tried it. My understanding is storage resource cannot be used in PP-PI alone and it can be used only when PP-PI with PFS/APO is used. I use only PP-PI.
Am I correct here? Do you have any suggestions to my issue?
Thanks in Advance,
G.Madhvaraj.

Automatic WM transfer order during inspection lot posting to non-WM-sloc

Hi All,
I have a question in regards of automatic creation of WM-transfer orders during QM-inspection lot posting from a WM-storage location to a non-WM-storage location:
- MIGO IM-posting: goods receipt with reference to purchase order to a WM-storage location
=> inspection lot automatically created
=> WM-stock is located on 902 GR area external rcpts / stock category Q
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The system cannot find the storage bin automatically.
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Hello,
I do not understand your scenario , u are saying are posting inspection lot to non WM storage location and again saying system can not find bin automatically.
"A transfer requirement (movement type 311 / destination u201C921 Transferu201D) is created after the inspection lot posting (QA11) but the auto-creation functionality is not possible since the u201CSystem cannot find source storage binu201D.
How can this auto-creation of a transfer order be realized since it is possible to create the transfer order manually via LB11 (entering source u201C902u201D / storage bin u201CPurchase Order no.u201D)?
The system cannot find the storage bin automatically.
Thank you in advance!"
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Prashant

STO- delivery document not commiting materials from storage location.

While creating an STO PO and delivery to move a material from a storage location in Plant 0003 (plant 0003 consists of 30 storage locations and 3 Shipping Points (1 for each of the Depots)), we are facing 0 stock issue.
We can change the Shipping Point in the STO PO to the Depot the material is coming from but no place to identify the Storage Location from which we are pulling.
The STO PO commits the material and provides a commit date.
We are using VL10B to create the Delivery > the Delivery fails and the log says "440000 0010 Only 0 EA of material 772-8760-876 available". There is material in 3 different Storage Locations in that Plant.
Does a delivery document consider shipping point only and not the storage location (sloc) inventory?
Do we need sloc-shipping point tie-up one to one?
We have inventory in both Storage Locations for MRP and for NO MRP.
Any advice, not sure if we are missing anything in config!
Thnx!
Points will be rewarded.

Check the following in OPJJ
The checking rule(for delivery it is B in std SAP) and avaiability check(from material master) combination
in the storage loc check sub screen
NO storage loc inspection check box is activated or not?
If it is not activated then system will check as per storage loc specified in delicvery, if activated, then system will check and give commitent at plant level
One more check is
In table TVKOL, is the storage loc is determined through shipping point/plant/stog condition combination?
IS so this storage loc is taken for checking

Atp Check see all storage location of the plant

Dear gurus,
we have the stock for the component in the storage location :
Storage Location A     10 PZ
Storage Location B      30 pz
Storage location C       40 pz
In the planned order for this component there are the storage location A.
The ATP check ( in the transaction MDVP) confirm the quantity only in the storage location A, but i would like confim the quantity stock of all the storage location .
For example for the planned order the requirement for this component is 30 pz , when i run the atp check the system confirm only 10 pz in the storage location A present in the position of the component, but i need confirm all quantity because present in others storage location, also having to maintain the storage location A in the position of the component in the planned order.
I need see in the avalaible ATP check all the storage location of the plant, there are the customizing setting or material master setting.
Thanks a lot
Daniele Pistilli

Hi,
In OPJJ "Scope of Check" Under "storage location Inspection" check the box against " No storage loc Inspection"
This indicator is used to set the scope of the availability check. It is used to switch off the check at storage location level.
Test this and revert back
pavan

Availability Check - Storage Location

Hi,
Is it possible to exclude a Storage location from Sales Order availability check? If yes, where do we maintain the SLoc exclusion?
e.g. Sloc 01 - FG Staging Area, Sloc 02 - FG Central whse...
We want that availability check should not look at Sloc 01 quantity ...
Thanks,

Hi
There are 4 ways of achieving this
1. You can exclude the storage locations trough S Loc MRP settings. check the MRP4 view of your material master > MARD-DISKZ controls how the S Loc is considered in relation to a material.
2. Please check the transaction OVZ9.
There will be one check box - No storage location inspection.
I think, by checking this check box, it won't check for the material at storage location level.
It will check only at the plant level.
3. spro...material management....consumption based planning....planning...define storage location MRP...
Here give plant name and enter...
Against every storage location you ll have indicators for excluding, including the stock....
4.Go to SPRO> Production>Material Requirements Planning>Planning>Define Storage Location MRP per Plant
For production storage loc put 1 -->Storage location stock excluded from MRP
By doing this it will not consider the production storage loc qty while running availability check .Go to SPRO> Production>Material Requirements Planning>Planning>Define Storage Location MRP per Plant
For production storage loc put 1 -->Storage location stock excluded from MRP
By doing this it will not consider the production storage loc qty while running availability check..
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Raja

BI Best Practice for Chemical Industry

Hello,
I would like to know if anyone is aware of SAP BI Best Practice for Chemicals.And if so can anyone please post a link aswell.
Thanks

Hi Naser,
Below information will helps you in detail explanation regarding Chemical industry....
SAP Best Practices packages support best business practices that quickly turn your SAP ERP application into a valuable tool used by the entire business. You can evaluate and implement specific business processes quickly u2013 without extensive Customization of your SAP software. As a result, you realize the benefits with less Effort and at a lower cost than ever before. This helps you improve operational efficiency while providing the flexibility you need to be successful in highly demanding markets. SAP Best Practices packages can benefit companies of all sizes, including global enterprises creating a corporate template for their subsidiaries.
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Practice:
u2022 Sales and marketing
u2013 Sales order processing
u2013 Presales and contracts
u2013 Sales and distribution (including returns, returnables, and rebates, with quality management)
u2013 Inter- and intracompany processes
u2013 Cross-company sales
u2013 Third-party processing
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u2013 EH&S dangerous goods management
u2013 EH&S product safety
u2013 EH&S business compliance services
u2013 EH&S industrial hygiene and safety
u2013 EH&S waste management
u2022 Research and development Transformation of general recipes
u2022 Supplier collaboration
u2013 Procurement of materials and services (Including quality management)
u2013 Storage tank management
u2013 E-commerce (Chemical Industry Data Exchange)
u2022 Enterprise management and support
u2013 Plant maintenance
u2013 Investment management
u2013 Integration of the SAP NetWeaver Portal component
u2022 Profitability analysis
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This section details the most common business scenarios u2013 those that benefit most from the application of best practices.
Sales and Marketing
SAP Best Practices for Chemicals supports the following sales and marketingu2013related business processes:
Sales order processing u2013 In this scenario, SAP Best Practices for Chemicals supports order entry, delivery, and billing. Chemical industry functions include the following:
u2022 Triggering an available-to-promise (ATP) inventory check on bulk orders after sales order entry and automatically creating a filling order (Note: an ATP check is triggered for packaged material.)
u2022 Selecting batches according to customer requirements:
u2022 Processing internal sales activities that involve different organizational units
Third-party and additional internal processing u2013 In this area, the SAP Best Practices for Chemicals package provides an additional batch production step that can be applied to products previously produced by either continuous or batch processing. The following example is based on further internal processing of plastic granules:
u2022 Purchase order creation, staging, execution, and completion
u2022 In-process and post process control
u2022 Batch assignment from bulk to finished materials
u2022 Repackaging of bulk material
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SAP Functions in Detail u2013 SAP Best Practices for Chemicals
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Supply Chain Planning and Execution
SAP Best Practices for Chemicals supports supply chain planning as well as supply chain execution processes:
Supply and demand planning u2013 Via the SAP Best Practices for Chemicals package, SAP enables complete support for commercial and supply-chain processes in the chemical industry, including support for integrated sales and operations planning, planning strategies for bulk material, and a variety of filling processes with corresponding packaging units. The package maps the entire supply chain u2013 from sales planning to material requirements planning to transportation procurement.
Supplier Collaboration
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Procurement of materials and services:
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u2022 Selection of delivery schedules by vendor
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u2022 Quality inspections for raw materials, including sampling requests triggered
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Manufacturing Scenarios
SAP Best Practices for Chemicals supports the following sales and
Manufacturingu2013related business processes:
Continuous production u2013 In a continuous production scenario, SAP Best Practices for Chemicals typifies the practice used by basic or commodity chemical producers. For example, in the continuous production of plastic granules, production order processing is based on run-schedule headers. This best-practice package also describes batch and quality management in continuous production. Other processes it supports include handling of byproducts,co-products, and the blending process.
Batch production u2013 For batch production,
SAP Best Practices for Chemicals typifies the best practice used by specialty
chemical producers. The following example demonstrates batch production
of paint, which includes the following business processes:
u2022 Process order creation, execution, and completion
u2022 In-process and post process control
u2022 Paperless manufacturing using XMLbased Process integration sheets
u2022 Alerts and events
u2022 Batch derivation from bulk to finished materials
Enterprise Management and Support
SAP Best Practices for Chemicals also supports a range of scenarios in this
area:
Plant maintenance u2013 SAP Best Practices for Chemicals allows for management
of your technical systems. Once the assets are set up in the system, it focuses on preventive and emergency maintenance. Tools and information support the setup of a production plant with assets and buildings.Revenue and cost controlling u2013 The package supports the functions that help you meet product-costing requirements in the industry. It describes how cost centers can be defined, attached
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The SAP Best Practices for Chemicals package supports numerous integrated
business processes typical of the chemical industry, including the following:
u2022 Quality management u2013 Supports integration of quality management concepts across the entire supplychain (procurement, production, and sales), including batch recall and complaint handling
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u2022 Warehouse management u2013 Enables you to identify locations where materials
or batch lots are stored, recording details such as bin location and other storage information on dangerous goods to help capture all information needed to show compliance with legal requirements
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Sudheer

Physical Sampling Points mapping & Stock transfer

Dear all,
We are into bulk drug manufacturing where in the manufacturing process is continuous. We have some intermediate products which have been identified as by-products. We get first by-product (say CS0034) at first operation (or phase). We test it after the GRN of the same. If it passes the test then we consume this in the second operation, but if it fails the test then we process it again in the first operation.
In the second operation we get another by-product (say TC00198). We perform the same procedure what has been described above.
I need your valuable inputs for the following questions,
1. How to reprocess the failed by-product on the same material? I am thinking to identify the failed material with previous by-product, fro ex. if TC00198 fails the test then in UD we will reject it & we will have material to material transfer (so stock of TC00198 will be transferred to CS0034) Is there any other better solution to take care of this?
2. While testing the sample of these by-product we have to take physical sample from 4 different locations of the storage tanks? How to identofy these sampling points in SAP?
Expecting your quick replies on this.
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Manoj Patil

Hi Manoj,
Can I ask 2 questions here?
How you are addressing reprocessing of CS0034 after its GR?
Why you want to correlate failed product (TC00198) to its previous operation product (CS0034)?
This tilts more towards PP module.
I consider reprocessing as rework. You should have separate order type customized for this. Against this order you can consume TC00198 and other consumables also if required. You can even book the labor charges also. Later you do GR again for TC00198
If it is necessary to build the stock of CS0034 again in system from TC00198, then also you can address this using above order type. Separate order type gives better accountability for reconciliation as compared to material to material transfer.
Regarding your second query - If you want to record inspection results you can assign sampling procedure in inspection plan. System will calculate sample size according to it and then you can record the results in QA32. Or you are looking for Inspection of Physical Samples concept in SAP?
Anand

Availability check - sales order

Hi experts,
I've gone through the relevant info, but still hit the issue below. Pls help. Thx.
Issue: How to include the created order (not delivered ) when running availability check?
Example:
Stock (storage location C) - 1pc
sales order A - 1pc (confirmed in schedule line)
sales order B - 2pcs (1pc confirmed, 1pc unconfirmed)
Those two orders are created agaisnt storage location C. No other stocks against storage location C are available, such as on-order stock.
In my understanding, order B cannot be confirmed as order A has been created firstly.
Background: As the customer just sells the purchased product, he places PO firstly, then sales order following. Thus, he requests new sales order creation to be based on the stock qty, created sales order qty, PO qty to be received & delivered sales order qty.
For this sales scenario, availability check with ATP is activated, but not against product allocation. And the check boxes "incl.purchase orders", "include sales reqmts", "include deliveries" are checked in OVZ9 only.
ps. "Check sales requirements" has been checked in Availability check control while "No storage location inspection" has not been checked.

Dear Cathy
Can you please reconfirm that the combination of availability check and checking rule in OVZ9 in which, you have selected the box "Include sales reqmts" is the same value what you have maintained in material master MRP3 view for availability check ??
If the availability check is same in both the cases, then try to create a fresh order and post the outcome.
thanks
G. Lakshmipathi

Availability check issue in SD

Hello everyone
I am currently having some issues during the ATP in Sales Order in SD.
We are using Check Group 02 - A (Sales Order) with the following settings:
Stock Overview --- *all are unchecked*
Relenishment Lead Time -- *"Check without RLT" is checked*
Storage Location Inspection -- unchecked
In/Outward Movement --- the following are checked
Inc. Purchase Orders
Include Reservations
Include Sales Order req.
Include Deliveries
Rest all is unchecked
Now on a high level, what this does is that hard allocates the required Order Qty to the Sales Order if stock is available.
e.g. Material XYZ has 100 EA unrestricted stock
Order for 10 EA ... is allocated 10EA
Now if a second order comes in for 100EA .. it will allocate only 90EA
Now I was able to test this successfully with a newly created material in our development system.
Later I rejected all the Orders that I had created for this material in ECC.
Thus now MD04 for that material displayed no requirement.
Now again when I tried placing an order for this material ... it wouldn't confirm.
When I check the Availability Overview from the Sales Order, it shows the following details
Material -- XYZ
Plant -       WXYZ
Total Display
Receipts - 100
Issues -- 300                        Confirmed Issues - 100
ATP Situation
Date, MRP elm., MRP element Data, Rec./reqd qty , Confirmed , ***. ATP
02/23/2011 , Stock , BLANK , 100, BLANK , BLANK
02/23/2011 , SimReq , Simulated Requirement , (10-) , BLANK , 0
02/24/2011 , CusOrd , Totals record , (300 -) , 100 , 0
02/23/2011 , SLocSt , LOC1 , 0 , BLANK , 0
02/23/2011 , SLocSt , LOC2 , 100 , BLANK , 100
Note:
I have put the dashes to allign them correctly. Also (10-) means negative 10
Plant WXYZ has 2 locations viz. LOC1 & LOC2
Currrently the stock of 100 EA is in LOC2.
ALso LOC1 is responsible to issue the stock to deliveries.
Question:
Why would the ATP confirm 0 qty inspite of the Orders placed for it have been rejected.
Note this material was never ever used before in Sales Orders.
Any thoughts
Thanks
Vin
Edited by: vinit parkar on Feb 23, 2011 8:38 PM
Edited by: vinit parkar on Feb 23, 2011 8:44 PM

Hey Shiva
That did not fix the problem.
I ran the program with Data Transfer checked .. but still the same issue
Any other thoughts ?

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