Creating Reservations (SAP Library - Materials Management)

Creating Reservations

Use

Reservations enable you to make sure that the reserved material will be available at a later time for a specific purpose. A reservation for a goods issue can be requested from different departments and for different account assignment objects (for example, cost center, order, asset). Material Requirements Planning takes reservations into account so that required material can be procured in time. You can also use reservations as a planning instrument for future goods receipts.

You can manually create reservations or the system can automatically generate them. Automatic reservations are possible for orders, networks, and WBS elements. In addition, stock transfer reservations can be automatically generated. The AFS system supports the creation and processing of reservations at SKU level.

Procedure

To manually create a reservation in the AFS system, take the following steps:

In Inventory Management choose Reservation ® Create.
Enter the Base date, the Movement type, and the Plant, and confirm your entries with Enter.
Process different account assignment fields depending on the movement type and enter the materials that you want to reserve. Navigate to the SKU detail screen with Enter.

Note

You can enter a reservation for several materials and storage locations, but for only one movement type, one plant, and one account assignment object.

In the SKU detail screen, you have the following processing possibilities:

You can reserve stock keeping units independently of the batch and can enter requirements categories that you want to reserve. To do this, you can either use the input help (F4) or make your selection via Grid and copy the grid values to the line view.
For each SKU you can individually determine the storage location within the plant you have specified.
If you want to reserve certain batches, choose Batches. You can have batches displayed according to certain selection criteria (storage location, grid value, stock category) and then copy them. If you do not enter any selection criteria, the system will copy all existing batches of all SKUs of the entered material to the line view.
If the number of SKUs you intend to reserve exceeds the number of the lines, choose New items to get additional free entry lines.

Note

If an availability check is planned for the material and the movement type, the system will carry out an availability check for each item. If a material will not available on the requirement date, the user will receive either a warning message or an error message, depending on the setting in Customizing.

Please refer to the SAP standard documentation on Reservations for details regarding creating, changing, and canceling reservations.