Setting Priorities for Inventory Management

Use

If you assign a material component that can be kept in different types of stock, a dialog box asks you to enter the stock type in which the component should be kept.

You can predefine the stock type for every material component in a project, so that this dialog box does not appear. This is very useful if you have a large number of material components to assign.

Procedure

  1. Choose Logistics or Start of the navigation path Accounting Next navigation step Project System Next navigation step Material Next navigation step Planning Next navigation step BOM transfer. End of the navigation path

  2. The BOM Transfer screen appears.

  3. Choose Stock/acct. assignmt. .

  4. Enter the project definition of the project for which you want to set priorities for the stock type.

  5. Enter the priority for the stock.

  6. For instance, with priority 1 for project stock and 2 for plant stock, you specify that the system should manage all material components in project stock. If this not possible, they should be managed in plant stock.

  7. Save your data.

For information about the conditions for keeping a material component in a particular stock type see Managing Stocks of Material Components .

Note Note

You can also store the priorities for inventory management in the profiles or specify them on the selection screen for BOM transfer by choosing .

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