Turn on batch managed for materials

Hi Expert!
Is there anyway to turn on batch managed for material after it has been used for some times?
Please advise.
Thanks.

Hi,
You can use the Batch Management functionality, even after having some stock for a material without Batch classification. After activating Batch Management, when you enter goods movements for materials, then onwards you must enter the batch number in addition to the material number.
Before you can manage batches of a material in stock, you must first specify in the material master record that the material is to be managed in batches for the specified plant. To do this, you must set the batch management requirement indicator in the material master record (for example, in the Purchasing or Storage view).
Regards,
Narayana.

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SLED In Batch managment for materials

Dear Experts,
The requirement for the business is as follows
Can sled be kept optional for few materials and mandatory for few materials during good receipt.
Any configuration apart from Material master(Plant data storage) to meet this requirement.Kindly suggest.
Thanks
Vijaya Rebala

What do you mean by few materials ?
What is the different for these few materials ?
If you want the field selection level, then you can use different material for these few materials.
As we know the option can be used only in material master, so you can control this in material master by using different material type/ field selection.
Or If you find any different (instead of material type) for these few material, then you can set the field as mandatory for few material by using some development (user exit or badi).

Wants to activate batch management for a material which already had a Stock

hi,
i want to activate batch management for a material which already has a stock and open Purchasing documents.
is there any way by which we can do it without removing the same.
please help.

program name is RVBCONVMAT2BM
but i am doubtfull it will be delivered with standard SAP, you need to request you from SAP as they charge for this.
this program convert the material to batch and all relevant dependant documents will be updated with batch no.
Regards,
Pravin Mukkawar
pasting some description of the program
REPORT rvbconvmat2bm.
Report illustrates the call of function module VBZ0401_CONVERT_OBJECTS
which sets the batch management flag for one material including
depending objects. Function module VBZ0401_FILL_BUFFERS helps
improving the performance.
then logic......

Is it possible to activate Batch Management for a material without Class?

Dear Experts,
Is it possible to activate Batch Management for a material without having Class & Characteristics maintained. As my requirement is to procure Fuels in Batches only with external no. assignment without any parameters to be checked at the time of Goods Receipt? Batches are needed for Accountability purpose.
Regards

>
Chandan H N wrote:
> Dear Experts,
>
> Is it possible to activate Batch Management for a material without having Class & Characteristics maintained. As my requirement is to procure Fuels in Batches only with external no. assignment without any parameters to be checked at the time of Goods Receipt? Batches are needed for Accountability purpose.
>
> Regards
Please check this answered link:
Batch-classification view
If you want classify a batch, then you should have maintained the batch classification in material master which is either class 022 or class 023 (depends on your batch level set in cusotmizing). The material class 001 has no impact on the batch classifcition, it is what it is: a classification for the material.
Edited by: Afshad Irani on Jun 20, 2010 4:40 PM

Automatic batch management for Production order receipt

Hello ,
I have a requirement to setup & activate Batch Management only for Production order Good Receipt . I am looking out for what all configuration / data setup will be required to complete this .
To start with I have following questions .
1. Whether such activation is possible only for Production order Good receipt - 101 mov.type
2. IF yes , is Batch management activation status be at material or plant level .
3. As I need automatic assignment , should I be selecting Internal batch management .
4. What should be selected for valuation for Goods movement in Inventory management.
5. Is it necessary to have batch determination by maintaining Condition tables / Access sequence
6. What would be standard Class / characteristics to be maintained for automatic determination.
Also I will have to work with the running system where Material are already active and have stock in system . What precautions will I have take if I have to activate the Batch Management in a running system.
Appreciate all your expert advise.
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Lawrei

Thanks Adler for your comments .
With reference to your point , need further clarifications
1. If batch management is selected to material , this means that it will be active for all movement types for Inventory and cannot be restricted to 101 mov.type .
I see that in config node
+Define Batch Creation for Goods Movements+
    +Using this function, you can define for each movement type whether a new+
    +batch is created for a goods receipt and how it is created.+
Can I not restrict batch creation only for 101 movement , but again here I don't have options to select only for Good receipt for order - Tran/Ev type - WF .
& what about below config node
+Define Batch Creation for Production Order / Process Order+
    +In this step you can make the following settings in batch management for+
    +the existing production control profiles:+
Is it possible in this node .
Please advise.
Regards.
Lawrei

Set batch management for reasons of cost management item cannot be deleted

Discovery was made that a material should have had batch management MARC-XCHPF selected. Within that time sales orders were created as well as sales order stock. 411E movements were done to get rid of the sales order stock, and it can not be seen in MMBE. MD04 is also clear. New attempt to add batch management in the plant displayed errors - SD Documents exist (orders or deliveries) that have not yet been
processed or that have been processed only in part.
   Document   Item
   206365     000020
Attempt to remove item 20 from sales order and receive error
Message no. V1128
For reasons of cost management, item 000020 cannot be deleted.
Diagnosis
You tried to delete a sales document item for which cost management is carried out. Cost management can exist at item level for
   - make-to-order production
   - make-to-order stock
   - service contract item
Procedure
Enter a reason for rejection at item level.
I found a similar problem on the forum but not really a solution other than throwing in the towel and making new materials.

Hi
What I understand from your thread is:
You have chekced batchmanagement in
material master & after working some time you want to remove that tick mark.
First of all one should understand that for what ever reason batch management is ON, you can not reverse it .
Either activation or deactivation of batchmanagement is irreversible.
Oflat SAP had come with a note telling that how to proceed with reversal batch management.
I have gone through that note .Finally SAP wants to take consultancy with some fees to make reversal.
It is all pain ful job.
If you can do it abandom thta material & create new material.
This is the solution I can give.
Hope it is celar to you.
Regards
YMREDDY

SAP RVBCONVMAT2BM Set Batch Management to materials with stock

Dear Gurus:
We are trying to make mass changes in material master, to activate arround 2,000 materials with batch management flag. We heard about the SAP program release RVBCONVMAT2BM, to let us do it in ma massive action.
Could anyone of you can give me support to get this program?
In other way, the tasks to be done manually will be not succesful because we currently have more than one month of operations in SAP.

Hi Jose,
The report could only be provided by SAP developer after evaluate the specific situation on your system. I think the evaluation process should be very complex and that is why your reported issue has been hold at SAP for such a long time, also only a completed evaluation is done, the SAP developer could provide the report, this is to ensure the data consistency in your system because change the batch management indicator with material stock is a very dangerous bevavior, this could only be done under a strict check. You can't run this report by your own if this is not provided by SAP, because if it cause any serious database inconsistency by running this report without evaluation from SAP developer, then SAP will not responsible for the result and will not help you correct the situation, so I suggest you should better have some pacient and wait for the update from SAP developer, or you may escalate your issue to require a quick process.
Regards,
Rachel

Removal of batch management for a material in MM02

Hi all,
I Have a problem in removing the batch management in the purchasing view of a material.The error is 'Batch management requirement cannot be changed,Batch already exists'.
PO is created on this material.GR is done and that GR is reversed.There is no stock in the previous period.In MSC2N batch is deleted.I tried even after deleting the item in the PO.Again system is giving the same error.
Now how can i remove the batchmanagement for the material.
Thanks,
Rambhupal reddy

your batch is probably only flagged for deletion. You have to run archiving, Transaction SARA for object MM_SPSTOCK to get rit of the batch record.

Engineering change management for materials in MDM

Hi,
we want to replace a home-made material master data system by MDM, but need some Engineering Change Management functions like
- versions of material
- release dates
- different release dates in relation to different factories (i.e. client systems)
Any idea, how this could be handled in MDM ?
Michael Tegethoff
KONE GmbH

Hello Michael:
All of that information you mention can be included on MDM as plain attributes on the Materials table.
As for Versions, if materials are updated thru MDM Import I'd suggest include the new version number and as import action choose "Update all mapped fields", that is, while importing the old version number will be updated.
for different release dates you can maintain as many date attributes as Factories you have. When harmonizing data (syndicating) you can map each factory to its correspondant release date, so the other factories won't even "notice" the other dates.
Please let me know if that helped at all.
Greetings!
Alejandro

Tables for Batch classification for materials

Hi SAP gurus,
I have an issue that I need to display the values for a number of materials in its classification view (class type 023) without using MM03.
Could anyone please let me know the table(s) where I can find this?
Thanks !!

Hi Moumita_kar,
Characteristics :
CABN      Characteristics ( o.a. batch/vendor)
CABNT      Characteristics description
CAWN      Characteristics ( o.a. material)
CAWNT      Characteristics description
AUSP      Characteristic Values
Class types and objects :
TCLAO      Several class types for object
TCLA      Class types ( vb. lfa1 => v10 en 010)
TCLAT      Class type text
TCLT      Classifiable objects
TCLC      Classification status
Links :
INOB      Link between Internal Number and Object
KLAH      Class header data
KSSK      Allocation Table: Object (vb.matnr) to Class
KSML      Characteristics for a class (internal number)
Please try and confirm.
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Suri

All pruchased materials to batch management

Hi Gurus,
Can anybody please throw some light on the following scenario. The business is proposing to batch manage all the materials that we buy. What are the implications that we will be facing by going this way? What technicaltities that i need to be aware of from the System perspective so that i can explain all the pros and cons of doing this?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Anusha

always keep in mind that it is not easy to activate batch management for materials that are already in use, and it is even more difficult to impossible to switch it off again, if you change your mind.
Batch management is an additional level to manage stocks, so it brings complexity in your system and is so an area to make some more errors.If you are already batch managment, then using BM for all purchased materials will not be a big challenge.
However, activation of BM for materials that are in use (stocks, open POs, etc) is quite challenging, as you must not have any stock in current and previous period to be able to activate BM. for details see OSS note 30656.
The more complex your business is, the more complex it becomes for this activation. Eg. if you are using vendor consignment, split valuation warehouse managment.
If you have to activate a lot materials, then SAP offers reports to do it despite of open documents and stock, but this costs extra money. there are OSS notes about this.

Converting from non-batch to batch management

Hi guys,
Can you tell what is the best strategy to convert a system from non-batch managed to batch managed? Batch management should have been implemented from the start, but my client just realized that mistake. This is knowing that we already have inventory and all kinds of transactional data: purchase orders, sales order, production orders...
I am looking for the less painfull strategy, as detailed as possible.
Thank you.
Fotso

HI,
Hi,
Procedure to be followed to activate Batch Management for Materials: -
1. Mark Deletion Flag for all the Open Purchasing Documents of Materials
2. Technical Completion of Production Orders to cancel open Reservations of Materials
3. Create a Dummy Material for Material (Batch Management Active)
4. Generate details of Unrestricted Stock of Materials as per Bill of Entry
5. Transfer Stock of Materials to Dummy Material using Movement Type "309" in previous period (Stock will be transferred Bill of Entry wise)
6. Activate batch Management for Materials
7. Transfer Stock from Dummy Material to Materials
Note: -
1) If there is stock available in previous period and also stock available in current period then Transfer Posting from Material to Material can be done directly in previous period. (Comparison of Tables MARD and MARDH)
2) In case if there is stock in previous period but no stock available in current period then we have to post an initial stock entry using movement type "561" to generate stock in current period (Here Quantity = Stock in Previous period)
3) Reverse these Material Documents in previous period
There are several SAP notes that give some useful information:
30656 Change base unit of measure/batch mngt requirement
533383 Resetting batch management requirement
533377 Conversion of batch level
I hope this helps!
Thanks & Regards,
Kiran

Initial stock load of batch managed materials

Hi,
We are using batch management for FERT materials. The class type 022 is being used for creating batch class. The class has been assigned to six characteristics.
We need to load the initial stock of all these FERT items with batches with corresponding classification values within the batch. I know that system creates the batches during initial load. However, it does not provide the classification button. This is the issue only for 561 movement. For all other receipts we get the classification button.
Can anybody help me understand if I am missing any config or I am following wrong process to upload initial stock with batches.
Thank you for all your help you could provide.
-Shekhar

Can you please explain me the process of "load the classification for the batches".
We have materials with class 022. In CL20N it asks for material and class type. Using this we can enter the characterstics values for a material, but not batch.
I can change the batch to enter the characterstics values. Is it supposed to be that way? I mean do I have to load the classification using MSC2N? Or I am missing something?
Thanks,
-Shekhar

Batch management config for specific order type

Hi SAP gurus,
Below are my clients requirement.
They want to interduce batch management for few materials, but they want the same to be implemented only for order-to-cash sale. order type ZOTC.
When I tried to simulate the same, for other order type(Ex: ZOR), system is also asking to maintain the batch at the time of goods issue as the material is now managed under batch & not allowing me to do the goods issue for the delivery for which the refering order type is ZOR.
How can I configure the same, so that, for the same material,if order type is ZOTC then batch will be determined at delivery & for all other order types, system will not check the batch during goods issue if the batch field is blank in delivery?
Help me.
Manoranjan

Dear Manoranjan,
requirement doesnt seems either logical or possible.
When material is activated as "batch Management" in Material Master, then there is no way to maintain the stock without batch.
you have to have stock in batches only.
Next, when you are delivering goods in OTC sales, then in delivery system will ask from which batch goods has to be issued , because they are managed in batches.
So while delivering goods through OTC, you should either enter the batch manually or determine batch in del item category as in std.

Customer exit for Batch management

Hi experts,
I'm using customer exit for batch management for internal number assignment.
I need the Batch number as i mentioned below
DDMMYYB01
DD-Date
MM-Month
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01-Number
For this i need to give logic. How to give i'm not getting. This batch number creation will come at the time of GR.
Anybody help me?
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Hi
Please use the user exit SAPLV01Z as I mentioned in your other thread, please go to SMOD to read its documentstion.
In SMOD, select the 'Documentation' and click 'Display', this will show the overview documentation.
Select the 'Componnet', then ciick the 'Display'. select each component and click 'Documentation Ctrl+F4) this will show the detailed documentation of them.
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