AFS Discontinuation 

Use

With discontinuation you can specify that a material is to be replaced by another material at a specific time. In order to avoid having unused warehouse stock, the stock of the old material should be used up before the new material is used.

The requirements planning diverts the requirement for the discontinued material to the follow-up material after the stock has been completely used up.

The SAP standard discontinuation function has been enhanced for AFS so that you can use it at material level and grid value level.

Prerequisites

For AFS discontinuation, the follow-up material must correspond to the discontinued material in the following ways:

●      same base quantity

●      same grid

●      same coverage strategy

●      same requirement category

If the discontinuation is at grid value level the follow-up material must be an AFS material. If it is at material level, you can enter a standard material.

You cannot mix the two levels (material level and grid value level).

Features

In MRP, the requirement is transferred to a follow-up material or a follow-up grid value using the AFS discontinuation.

Activities

For AFS discontinuation you must maintain either of the following:

●      the view MRP 4 in the material master for discontinuation at material level

●      the tab page Discontinuation in the view AFS MRP in the material master for discontinuation at grid value level.

AFS Restrictions

●      Discontinuation for AFS materials is supported only for MRP created planned orders (converted completely to production orders). Any manual changes to the grid values or components data of the converted production order can lead to errors in quantity calculation.

●      AFS does not support parallel discontinuation.

●      AFS does not support discontinuation for standard materials that are under an AFS material.