Example: Material Staging for Production 

This example describes a sample scenario in which more than one storage location for a plant are assigned to one warehouse number.

Scenario:

Stock that is physically located in production is managed in plant 0001 storage location 0092. Stock located in the warehouse is managed in storage location 0091. As soon as the goods are moved physically to production, a posting change takes place so that they are managed in plant 001 storage location 0092.

For the following example, it is assumed that the WM-PP interface is active and that the stock supplied by WM will be moved to storage type 100 in production.

Prerequisites

The following Customizing settings are necessary for this scenario:

These settings will result in the following process for a the staging of materials for a production order.

  1. In the production order component, you enter plant 0001 storage location 0092. The storage location of the production supply area (PSA) is also 0092. Material staging is initiated for production order 10004711.
  2. Based on the material staging, the system creates a transfer requirement in WM.
    Since the indicator is set so that the storage location (0092) is not to be copied into the transfer requirement, the transfer requirement contains no reference to a storage location.
  3. For this reason, when the system creates a transfer order for the transfer requirement, the system assigns the standard storage location 0091 to the transfer order. This means that the system will only select (pick) quants in the warehouse (0091) to be moved to storage type 100.

  4. As a result, the system creates a positive quant for the transfer order in storage type 100 with storage location 0091.
  5. After you confirm the transfer order, you must carry out a posting change (storage location to storage location) for the stock in IM.
  6. For this posting change, the system deletes the quant in storage type 100 (storage location 0091) and creates a new quant with storage location 0092.

  7. The goods issue posting for the production order (which takes place later) results for storage location 0092 thus reducing the stock in the quant.

 

For this scenario, you need to ensure that when the production order is released, there is no stock of the material available in storage location 0092. In this case, you should only carry out the capacity check at the plant level.

General information about the posting change:

You set the time for the posting change using the indicator "Combine Posting Changes" under Interfaces/Inventory Management/Define storage location control in Customizing. If you set this indicator, the system carries out the posting change using the Report RLLQ0100. You can plan this as a batch job or start it manually using transaction LQ01. If this indicator is not set, the system carries out the posting change in the background immediately after you confirm the transfer order. For transfer orders that are defined for immediate confirmation, the system carries out the posting change immediately after it creates the transfer order. In both cases, the posting change (transfer posting) takes place in IM with the defined movement type (storage location to storage location).

If an error occurs, and you have defined a mail indicator in Customizing, the system sends a message to the user assigned.

In both cases, the system always carries out the posting change for the available quantity of the quant. The system converts quants whose storage location is different from that defined for this storage type in Customizing. The posting change takes place directly in the storage bin of the quant. Both of the quants in this location are deleted and the system does not create a posting change notice for this process. A posting change such as this one can only take place in storage types that are defined for a direct posting out of IM. The system checks this for the storage type in Customizing.