You use this procedure in the PI sheet when you enter material consumptions for material components that are to be handled in batches and have entered the batch manually. It enables you to check whether the batch you have entered matches the selection criteria defined for batch determination. The system does not check availability during the batch check.

You have installed the application component Batch Management (LO-BM).
In this component, a batch search procedure together with the corresponding strategy types and search strategies has been defined for the order type (refer to Batch Search Strategy).

Batch check has been activated for the order type in Customizing for Process Orders.

The material component for which you want to find a batch meets the following requirements:

• It has been defined as being subject to batch management in the material master record.
• If you want batch determination to use different selection criteria than those defined in the batch search strategy, the material component must have been classified accordingly in the material list of the process order.

1. Enter the required material quantity and the batch number in the PI sheet.
2. Place the cursor on the process instruction in the PI sheet, for example, on the field for the batch, and choose Environment ® Batch ® Check.