You can transfer batches created in SAP ERP to an SCM system.
Example
For the following SAP APO processes it is necessary for batches or their characteristics to be transferred to SAP APO:
Working with classified stocks
Characteristics-dependent planning (CDP)
Characteristics-based product availability check
Planning with shelf life
If you want to work with these processes in SAP APO 4.0, you must explicitly transfer the batches to SAP APO as new objects.
Characteristics-Dependent Planning (CDP) and the characteristics-based product availability check cannot process batch valuations that contain multiple values or intervals.
For more information about characteristics-dependent planning (CDP), see SAP Library on SAP Help Portal at http://help.sap.com
.For more information about characteristics-based product availability check, see SAP Library on SAP Help Portal at http://help.sap.com
.In your SAP ERP system that has been released before ERP 2005, you have implemented SAP ERP Plug-In 2003 1 with SAP ERP Basis Release 4.6 B or higher.
To ensure that the batches retain the characteristic value assignments in the connected SCM system, you have transferred the relevant classes and characteristics by including the classes and characteristic in the same integration model or transferring them beforehand in another integration model.
In the connected SCM system, batches are called versions and are displayed on the Versions tab page in the product view. In the SCM system, batch properties are stored as classifications.
In the SCM system, batches are classified with class type 230. If SAP Supply Network Collaboration (SAP SNC) is installed in the SCM system, an additional class of class type 232 is created for use in SAP SNC that refers to the class of class type 230.
For more information, see SAP Library on SAP Help Portal at http://help.sap.com
.Note
To transfer the classes to the SCM system, you must create the necessary organizational areas for the class type 230, in Customizing for the SCM system under
In SAP ERP you classify batches that you want to use in the SCM system with the class type 023. If the batches are uniquely defined at plant level (class type 022), you must convert the batch level to material or client level (class type 023) before transfer to the SCM system. To do this, choose in Customizing for Batch Management Specify Batch Level and Activate Status Management.
All affected ERP systems must use class type 023 for batch classification. So that batch master data (for example, status of the batch) is transferred to the SCM system, the object characteristic data in SAP ERP must be copied to the classification.
To transfer batches from SAP ERP to the SCM system, assign the batches to the integration model in SAP ERP and execute the initial data transfer. If you use SAP APO 4.0 and still require classified stocks of batch-managed material for your processes, you must include the material for which batches are to be transferred in your existing integration model or in a new integration model. Set the Transfer batches of material indicator in the integration model for the material. This indicator is available as of Plug-In 2003.1 in SAP ERP Basis Releases 4.6.B or higher.
In the batch master in SAP ERP, the indicator Batch no longer active was introduced with SAP ERP Basis Release 4.7, Support Package 3 (for earlier SAP ERP releases, see SAP Note 533068). If you set this indicator, the corresponding batch is not transferred to the SCM system. If postings are executed for deactivated batches, the indicator is reset and the batches are transferred to the SCM system again.
You can select the Batch no longer active checkbox in the SAP ERP System with the RVBDEACT report. We recommend that you execute this report before the initial data transfer at regular intervals. In the batch master transaction, the indicator is not visible. Changes to the indicator value are documented with the change documents in the batch master (tab Changes).
If you have already worked with the processes mentioned above in earlier SAP APO Releases, then, when you upgrade to SAP APO 4.0, you must first retransfer the classes from SAP ERP to SAP APO using an initial data transfer. This is necessary so that the classes are created in the class types 230 (batches) and 400 (CDP) in SAP APO. You then transfer the classified batches from SAP ERP to SAP APO.