Carry Out Control For Availability Check (SAP Library

Carry Out Control For Availability Check

In this IMG step, you define checking rules for the availability check and allocate them to a checking group.

The checking rule specifies the scope of the availability check for the respective transactions in sales and distribution by specifying precisely which stocks, receipt and issue elements should be taken into account during the availability check.

Every checking rule is allocated to a checking group: together these two elements determine the final inspection requirements. In addition, the checking rule includes a specification whether or not an availability check should take into account the replenishment lead time.

Currently, the checking rule is predefined in SD.

When specifying the inspection scope for a certain checking rule, you can currently select the following receipts and issues:

purchase orders

production orders

purchase requisitions

planned orders

dependent requirements

reservations

dependent reservations

sales requirements

delivery requirements

SD requirements (= sales requirements and delivery requirements) reduce an available stock or inward stock movement on the material availability date so that other issues cannot access the reserved quantity.

When specifying the inspection scope for a certain check rule, you can currently select the following stock elements:

Safety stock (to be maintained in material master record, MRP data)

Stock in transfer in the receiving plant

Stock in quality inspection

Blocked stock

Replenishment lead time

The replenishment lead time specifies the time which is needed to order or produce a certain material. The system determines the replenishment lead time as follows:

For internally procured materials the replenishment lead time is determined from the in-house production time and the goods receipt processing time or alternatively from the total replenishment lead time, if it is specified.

For externally procured materials the replenishment lead time is determined from the goods receipt processing time and the processing time for purchasing.

In this IMG step, you control whether or not the replenishment lead time should always be taken into account. If you select the field, the replenishment lead time will NOT be taken into account during the availability check. If the field remains unselected, the replenishment lead time will automatically be included in the availability check.

If you carry out the availability check using the replenishment lead time, you should plan ahead in regular intervals (on a daily basis for individual and daily requirements, on a weekly basis for weekly requirements) to prevent a shortage and therefore a possible delivery block. This shortage could occur if the delivery date of a sales order, which was confirmed the previous day for the replenishment lead time, is already within the replenishment period on the current day and therefore results in a shortage.

Note

For transactions which create individual stocks, such as production-to- order, consignment stock processing or returnable packaging processing, the availability check is carried out for the individual stock depending on the respective special stock indicator.

Actions

1. Check the configurations for the checking groups which are contained in the standard SAP R/3 System.

2. Make sure that the checking group is maintained in the material master records. Depending on the plant, you can specify a checking group for each material type (see section "Specifying a checking group for each material type").

3. Select the individual stock elements as well as the receipts and issues which should be taken into account during the availability check.

4. Select the field for replenishment lead time if you do NOT want to take the replenishment lead time into account.

5. If your release was updated after 2.0, you must check the indicators for sales and delivery requirements.

Before, these sales requirements had to be maintained in a joint field and were first subdivided into two separate fields for Release 2.1. In the release update, a selected original field led to sales and delivery requirements being selected, an unselected field leads to unselected fields in the conversion program.