SAP Fashion Management Solution- OTC. FMS business functions needs to be activated for FMS add-on to be active. Briefly, the steps in. In the standard SAP System it is not possible to activate Batch management when you have stocka nd open PO's. U need to make the stock zero and close all the open PO's to activate.

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Batch Managment

Batch Management can be used in all industries. It is mainly used in the following -

• Chemicals
• Pharmaceuticals
• Cosmetics
• Health Care
• Foodstuffs
• Retail
• Aerospace
• Mill Products
• Mining

Batch Management incorporates the entire logistics process, from procurement to sales. The new functionality works with all existing batch records. It is closely linked with classification, but can also be used without classification. You can only search for batches via the batch determination function if the batches are classified. In a process manufacturing environment, production is usually executed in batches. In addition, many materials entering the process are managed separately in batch stocks with different specifications.

Batch - A batch is a quantity of the material produced during a given production run. A batch represents a homogeneous unit with unique specifications. A Batch is a subset of the total quantity of a material held in stock. The subset is managed from all other subsets of the same material.

Depending on the plant, material and operational levels we can choose the level at which you want the batch number to be unique. The material number is unique at the client level. However, the uniqueness of the batch number can be defined at the following levels -

• In combination with the material and plant
• In combination with a material number
• At the client level

If the Batch level is set to Plant/Material in your system, the following applies:

• The batch number can be reassigned for a material with a different specification in each plant.
• However, you can transfer a stock from one plant to another between batches with the same number, even though the batches do not necessarily have the same specification. In such cases, the batch quantity transferred assumes the specification of the destination batch.
• If you want the batch specification to be unique across all plants, you can only achieve this through organizational measures. The system does not support this. In this case, you are recommended to switch to a higher batch level.

If the Batch level is set to Material in your system, the following applies:

• A batch has the same specification for all plants at which a material is stored.
• The same batch number can be reassigned with a different specification for each material.

If the Batch level is set to Client in the system:

• The same batch number can only be assigned once within the entire client.
• It is uniquely assigned to one material number.

A production lot can be manufactured in several production runs. The same technical requirements apply to the entire production lot. The result of each production run is a batch. Example - In the chemical industry, you would use the term 'production lot' if a material is manufactured in several charges in a reactor according to the same process order. The result of each charge is a batch.

The definition of the term batch also influences the definition of the term material. The following structure is recommended:

• All criteria making a batch reproducible are criteria of the batch material, and not of the batch itself.
• The batch record should contain only data that is unique to precisely this batch. This specification identifies the batch as a non-reproducible unit.
• The advantage of organizing master data in this way is that it enables you to plan the different models of a product individually. In the SAP R/3 System, materials are planned at material level and not at batch level.

In the SAP R/3 System, batch master records always depend on material master records. We post batches FOR a material. You must first create a material master record, stipulating in it that the material is to be handled in batches. This means that you have to enter a batch number every time there is a goods movement. The indicator for batch requirement is contained in the following views of the material master record: Sales and distribution, General plant data, Purchasing, Work scheduling, Storage 1, and Warehouse management. Even if the indicator appears in several views, it is the same indicator. If it is set in one of the views, it is displayed as being set in all the other views. If a material changes from a material that is not subject to batch requirement to one that is subject to batch requirement, you have to post out all the stocks from the previous fiscal year, the current period, and the previous period. You can then set the indicator for batch requirement and post the stock back into the system in batches.
The same applies when you cancel the batch requirement. In this case you also have to reorganize the batch master records. You can then reset the indicator for batch requirement to blank and post the stock back into the system.

You can create a batch master record directly when maintaining master data. Alternatively, you can specify the batch number upon the first goods movement for a batch. The system then creates the batch master record in the background. Batch numbers can be assigned internally or externally. You can define alternative number ranges.

Define Creation upon goods movements or in Batch master -

You can define for each movement type whether a new batch is created upon a goods receipt and how it is created. The following variations are possible:

• Automatic/manual without check (= delivery status as before)
• Automatic/manual with check against external number range
• Automatic/manual with check in customer exit
• Automatic/no manual creation
• Manual without check
• Manual with check against external number range
• Manual with check in customer exit
• No new creation

Define Creation for Production / Process Order -

You Can make the following settings:

• Automatic creation of batch upon order creation or release
• Automatic classification upon batch creation
• Valuation of free characteristics of a batch to be specified

Batch Classification -

You can use the classification system in conjunction with batch management. The classification system and batch management are closely linked. The classification system and batch management are closely linked.

• The specification for a batch master record is based on a batch's classification.
• The attributes (that is, the specifications) are stored as characteristic values.
• For batch management to function correctly, you must prepare the classification data to include the corresponding batch specifications.
• You have to classify batches in order to use the batch determination function.
• The characteristics for materials managed in batches provide information for any kind of evaluations on particular attributes of batches, whether in connection with quality issues, production issues, or complaints.
• Often batches are quite different in their characteristics and only via the classification it can be decided for which purpose they fit. For example in forest products, in the batch characteristics the dimensions such as length and diameter and quality parameters are stored for the harvested trees.

All classes used for batch classification are assigned to class type 022/023. They are required for batch determination. The material and its batches must be classified via the same class. This ensures that the same characteristics are used for the material and the batch. Characteristics can pass on their values by inheritance.

Reason for implementing batch management

• Traceability in case of complaint and recall issue
• Search via expiration date
• ISO certification
• Usage of batch characteristics to manage which batch fits to a specific requirement

One of the most insteresting term that comes into picture with batch management is SLED.

ShelfLife Expiration Date

The system calculates the shelf life expiration date the first time a batch is received:It is calculated from the date of production plus the total shelf life. You specify the date of production when making the goods receipt posting. If the total shelf life has not been stored in the material master record, you must enter the shelf life expiration date at this point.The difference between the shelf life expiration date and the posting date is the remaining shelf life of the goods received. It must not be less than the minimum remaining shelf life from the material master record. If it were less, the system would respond with a warning or an error message, depending on the setting in Customizing.
Batch Specific Unit of Measure

Sam cooke live copa rare. The batch-specific material unit is an alternative unit of measure of a material, for which you can define the conversion ratio into the base unit of measure on a batch-specific basis.
While the conversion ratio for the other alternative units of measure is fixed in the material master, for batch-specific material units, you have to define:
* The planned conversion ratio in the material master
* The actual conversion ratio into the base unit of measure in the batch master
You use batch-specific units of measure when the ratio for conversion from the unit of measure into the base unit of measure can differ from batch to batch.
These alternative units of measure include:
* Proportion unit - this is the unit of measure in which you can enter proportions of the base unit of a material. The total or physical quantity can consist of several proportions.
* Product unit - this unit of measure describes the total quantity of a material as an alternative to the base unit of measure. For example, one piece of a particular batch weighs 10 kilograms in total or is a pipe of 1250 millimeters in length.

Batch Valuation

The system vcan be set up to valuate each batch individually in accounting. Anbe anbe tamil album song download. Each batch will have a specific price, stored in a valuation type.

Possibilities to automatically determine a batch specific price are:

• Active ingredient management: The contents of a specific ingredient or the sum of ingredients detremine the batch value. Examples: You manage solutions od fiffrent concentraio of a valuable substance in a more or less worthless carrier such as silver nitrate in water, or copper ore in raw ore out of a mine.
• Batch valuation of configurable products: https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/12519

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FAQ: Batch level

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Specify Batch Level and Activate Status Management

In this IMG activity, you specify the following:

• the level at which batch numbers are unique

• whether batch status management is active in the client

• the plants in which batch status management is active

• the initial status of new batches

Batch level

Batch numbers can be unique at the following levels:

• at plant level

• at material level

• at client level for a material

If you choose plant level, the batch number is unique in conjunction with the respective material and the plant. If you choose material level, the batch number is unique together with the material. At client level, the batch number is unique in the whole client.

To change the batch level, you have to start a conversion program. This program first checks whether conversion is possible and outputs an error log containing all batch numbers that occur more than once at the new level. Now you need to manually transfer these batch records to batch numbers within Inventory Management using a transfer posting 'material to material'.

If you change the level from plant level to a higher level, it is possible that batches with the same batch numbers in different plants are actually identical. In this case, all you have to do is remove stocks (including previous period stocks) so that all batches with the same batch numbers, except one, can be reorganized.

When you convert from plant level to material level, the material is then to be handled in batches in all plants in which it is defined.

Standard Settings

In the standard R/3 System, batches are unique at plant level.

Activities

To change the batch level, proceed as follows:

Further Notes

Note that you cannot reset conversion from plant level to a higher level in the standard.

If you create a client by copying an existing client, initially, there are no settings in the target client at batch level. The system makes the settings in the target client only when you have carried out an activity (maintaining master data or posting a goods movement, for example). The client level is not transported. If you copy a client with client level, you have to manually set the client level in the target system.

SETTINGS BEFORE/AFTER CLIENT COPY:
Source client Target client
Client levelMaterial level (change setting manually)
Material level Material level
Plant level Plant level

Batch status management

Batch status management is an additional function provided by the standard R/3 System.

Standard Settings

Batch status management is not active in the standard R/3 system.

Activities

To activate batch status management, proceed as follows:

Further Notes

Batch status management is linked to the batch level. At material and at plant level, the status management settings are valid within the client, that is for all plants. However, if you have defined batches to be unique at plant level, you have to select the plants in which status management is to be active using function Plants with status management.

If you activate status management, all existing batches are assigned status 'unrestricted'. If you deactivate status management, the system transfers all restricted batches to unrestricted stock within conversion. Restricted stock only exists if status management is active.

If you create a client by copying an existing client, status management is automatically activated if batches exist in the target client, independent of the settings in the source client. If no batches exist in the target client, it is not activated. In this case, you have to activate or deactivate status management manually, if required.

Plants with batch status management

Activities

To select the plants in which status management is to be active, proceed as follows:

Initial status of a new batch

Using this function, you can specify for each material type which initial status new batches are to be assigned. However, if you use a quality management system, this specifies the status of the batches.