Maintaining Data for Batch-Specific Units of Measure (SAP Library

Maintaining Data for Batch-Specific Units of Measure

Purpose

With this process, you edit the master data for using batch-specific units of measure.

Prerequisites

To work with batch-specific units of measure, you must make the following settings in Customizing:

You have to specify the units of measurement globally for the conversion factors and the batch-specific units of measure, see General Settings ® Check Units of Measurement

If the material contains several active ingredients, you must define a unique batch-specific unit for each active ingredient. For example KA1 (kilogram silver) and KA2 (kilogram gold).

You have to specify the batch-specific units of measure for Batch Management. Choose Batch-Specific Material Units of Measure ® Edit Batch-Specific Material Units of Measure in Customizing for Batch Management.

You have to edit the units of measurement for the conversion factors. Choose Batch-Specific Material Units of Measure ® Calculation of Proportion or Product Quantity Conversion in Customizing for Batch Management

You will find further information under Batch-Specific Material Units of Measure in Customizing for Batch Management.

Process Flow

You must include the characteristics that you are to use in the corresponding batch classes and mark them with the view S. This view is delivered with the standard system.

In the classification system, you create the characteristics in which you want to store the conversion factors, for example, active ingredient potency. The characteristics must have the following attributes:

Numeric
Single value
Negative values are not allowed
Must be allocated to a class type of the category Batch

Choose a unit of measurement for a conversion factor, for example kai/kg (kilogram of active ingredient/kilogram).

You create the class in the classification system with the following settings:

Class type Batch

Organizational view S for the class (Basic data screen)

Organizational view S for the characteristics (Characteristics screen)

Note

You can only mark characteristics with organizational view S within the class. If you want to use a characteristic in several classes, you must enter organizational view S for this characteristic in each individual class.

You create the material in the material master record with the following settings:

In the Classification view, you enter a class type of the batch category.
In the Purchasing view or Warehouse Management view, you set the Batch Management indicator.
Under Additional data, Proportion/ProductUn view, you:

enter the type of batch-specific units of measure used in the Use Un field
enter the planned value of the conversion factor for the characteristic in the Planned value field
enter the batch-specific unit of measure that is used in the conversion factor, for example, KGAI for the characteristic active ingredient potency in the Un field,
set the LUn indicator (leading batch-specific unit of measure)
set the VUn indicator (valuation based on batch-specific unit of measure)

Note

The system only displays the characteristics that are flagged with the S view in the class.

See also:

Batch Specifications

The Classification System in the CA - Classification Guide documentation.