Loss Management

Use

Loss Management (transaction code /ISDFPS/MASS_LOSS) is a function for posting complete or partial mass losses that occur during transportation or in storage. In both cases, extensive follow-up activities can be required to clear losses caused when material is lost on a massive scale:

  • Determine the total loss if only part of the loss is known

  • Dispose of material that can no longer be used

  • Complete open documents from the procurement process

  • Replace material through new purchase orders

  • Create the corresponding accounting documents

  • Adjust the stock and transport information

  • Notify the persons involved (such as the demand planner or recipient)

Loss Management offers a central point from which you can perform and monitor all follow-on actions caused by mass losses.

Constraints

Note the following functional constraints:

  • You can clear losses from a Warehouse Management System (WMS) and Logistics Execution System (LES) for material that requires a serial number only if the serial number profile specifies serial number requirement at handling unit level. This is because you can manage serial numbers only with handling units in the WMS and LES.

  • With unpacked material or when saving serial numbers at delivery item level, the system can identify serial numbers only using the goods receipt document. As soon as additional goods movements have been carried out for the storage bin, unique identification is no longer possible.

  • You can post losses from transportations only if an inbound delivery exists.

  • For cross-system deliveries, the inbound delivery must exist in the receiving system.

  • You can trigger events in Supply Chain Event Management (SCEM) only using the Business Add-In Adjust Loss Management .

  • You must post losses in the corresponding system. Cross-system loss postings (for example, from an offline system to a central system) are not supported.

  • You must perform Loss Management in the system that contains the information about the warehouse structure. This means that you have to implement the function in the decentralized system when using a decentralized WMS and in the central system when using a central WMS.

  • You cannot change individual items manually (quantity changes) since the function is for mass processing.

Prerequisites

In Customizing, you have to define the settings for posting losses. These settings include the movement type for scrapping, the cost center, and the data for the warehouse to which the material was originally to be posted.

In Customizing for Defense Forces & Public Security , choose Start of the navigation path Materials Management Next navigation step Define Settings for Loss Management End of the navigation path (view /ISDFPS/LOSS_CUS).

Features

Starting with an initial object (such as a delivery or storage bin), all dependent objects related to the initial object are determined and displayed in a hierarchical tree structure with the lower and higher-level objects. You can explode the structure using the Framework for Object Explosion (FOX) and an explosion profile.

Below is an example for a shipment:

Shipment

-> Train

-> Freight container

-> Pallet

-> Material A

-> Material B

-> Material C

-> Material D

For stocks in a warehouse:

Stor. Loc.

-> Storage type

-> Storage bin

-> Material A

-> Material B

-> Material C

-> Material D

Based on an explosion profile that contains the parameters for a multi-level FOX structure explosion, you can make the selection for the materials to be scrapped using the following criteria:

  • Warehouse number

  • Warehouse number in combination with storage type

  • Shipment number

  • Delivery data for inbound or outbound delivery

  • Handling unit

  • Dynamic selection by object type (such as material, batch, force element) and corresponding object key (such as material or batch number)

Based on the selection criteria, the system displays a structured list in which you can select the losses to be posted. When you select a node, the system also selects all subordinate elements. When you deselect a node, the system deselects all the subordinate elements. You can save selected nodes by choosing the Save pushbutton.

By choosing Post Loss , you can post the relevant adjustments for the following masses losses:

  • Storage types and storage bins in WMS

  • Storage types and storage bins in LES

  • Inbound deliveries (stock in inventory management)

  • Inbound deliveries in WMS

  • Inbound deliveries in LES

  • Handling units

  • Parts of handling units (using transaction /ISDFPS/MASS_LOSS_HU)

A loss to be posted for a material is posted in the system as “scrapping.”

By choosing Create PReq , you can create a purchase requisition for the material lost (once for each item) to trigger the replacement process.

By choosing the Display Log pushbutton, you can display an application log in which all messages issued during the subsequent process are recorded.

If you use the Supply Chain Event Management (SCEM) application and have implemented the BAdI Adjust Loss Management , you can send a loss posting to SCEM by choosing the Info pushbutton.

Scrapping Partial Losses for Handling Units

You can also use transaction /ISDFPS/MASS_LOSS_HU to post partially scrapped handling units (HU) if these HUs were only partially lost. You define the selection here using the delivery data or by entering a handling unit directly. For the materials selected as lost, in a background step, the system first posts a goods receipt for the correct document update and then posts the scrapping for these materials. For the materials not selected, the system posts only a goods receipt.

Customer-Specific Adjustments Using a Business Add-In

You can use the Business Add-In (BAdI) Adjust Loss Management (/ISDFPS/BADI_LOSSMAN) to adjust Loss Management to meet your individual requirements.

With the relevant BAdI method, for example, you can:

  • Adjust the explosion result

  • Adjust the display list

  • Extend the field catalog

  • Create and send events in the Supply Chain Event Management (SCEM) application

  • Adjust the application toolbar

You can call this BAdI in Customizing for Defense Forces & Public Security by choosing: Start of the navigation path Materials Management Next navigation step Business Add-Ins Next navigation step BAdI: Adjust Loss Management End of the navigation path (/ISDFPS/BADI_LOSSMAN).

For more information, see the BAdI documentation.

Activities

To call Loss Management from the SAP Easy Access menu, choose Start of the navigation path Logistics Next navigation step Organizational Flexibility Next navigation step Conversion Next navigation step Loss Management End of the navigation path and then the following transactions:

  • /ISDFPS/MASS_LOSS: Loss Management

  • /ISDFPS/MASS_LOSS_HU: Scrapping of Partial HUs