Determining Perishables Requirements (SAP Library

Determining Perishables Requirements

Use

Dealing in perishables means having to work with considerable fluctuations every day. Often the weather conditions greatly influence demand, prices, and the quantities delivered. This function supports you in determining requirements based on stock on-hand, existing purchase orders, and historical data.

Prerequisites

Before you can use this function, you must generate a perishables planning list (see Perishables: Perishables Planning List).

If you want to use the Perishables Information System, you must have activated updating of perishables information structure S160 in the article type identification of the article type.

Features

The perishables planning list contains a wealth of information on articles, vendors, sales quantities, and prices. You can branch to detailed information on much of the information displayed direct from the list (see Environment Information and Options for Going to Other Functions).

You use the perishables information structure (S160) to find the historical data. It contains all the key characteristics and figures required for processing and monitoring perishables. All goods movements of perishable produce are updated in this info structure.

The info structure can be analyzed using the standard analysis tools. With critical key figures, you can have the system generate a message or a workflow item using the early warning system and assign them to an employee

The following fields are relevant for perishables requirements:

Characteristic

Article
Distribution center
Store

Key figures

Stock transport orders (store orders)
Sales orders
Order volume
Sales value (as done with external customers at POS - for example, store sales)

The historical data displayed in the perishables planning list helps you in using your experience to decide which quantities to order. To make it easier for you, the system can also calculate the quantity of each article that still has to be purchased. This is calculated as follows:

Remaining quantity = Total purchase orders over DC delivery period

+ current unrestricted-use stock (stock on-hand)

– existing store orders over store delivery period

Example

The following example illustrates how the Remaining quantity field is used:

Total purchase orders over DC delivery period: 100 pc

current unrestricted-use stock (stock on-hand): 20 pc

– existing store orders over store delivery period: 50 pc

Remaining quantity calculated: 100 pc + 20 pc – 50 pc = 70 pc

You can use the user exit EXIT_SAPMWOG1_010 to replace this rule with one of your choice.