Batch Determination Process (SAP Library - Batch Management (LO-BM))

Batch Determination Process

Purpose

This process describes how you find suitable batches for a business transaction.

Here are some examples of business transactions in different applications:

Business Transaction

Application

Material withdrawal for production/process order
Internal material provision
Return delivery to supplier
Scrap/sample
Transfer posting

Inventory Management

Production/process order
Repetitive manufacturing with/without partial orders

Production

Quotations
Quantity order
Sales order/scheduling agreement
Delivery

Sales & Distribution

Transport order

Warehouse Management

Prerequisites

You must have assigned a search procedure to the business transaction. The search procedure contains different strategy types that are relevant for the business transaction.

There must be a batch search strategy for one of the strategy types. See also Creating a Batch Search Strategy.

The selection class must contain at least one of the characteristics with which the batch was classified. See also Definition of a Batch Search Strategy.

Process Flow

You start batch determination manually, or the system starts automatic batch determination.

The system then carries out the following steps in succession:

it looks for a search procedure for the business transaction
it searches through the strategy types listed in the search procedure for a search strategy. The first valid search strategy is adopted and all other search strategies are ignored.
it then uses the characteristics from the selection class of the search strategy to look for batches with suitable specifications
it checks whether the batches are available
it sorts the batches that were found and are available according to the sort rule from the search strategy
the system selects a proposed quantity in accordance with the proposed quantity from the search strategy.
the system proposes that batch determination is to run online, providing that the search strategy contains the information

See also:

Batch Determination and Batch Check in Customizing for Batch Management

Definition of a Batch Search Strategy

Business Transaction	Application
Material withdrawal for production/process order Internal material provision Return delivery to supplier Scrap/sample Transfer posting	Inventory Management
Production/process order Repetitive manufacturing with/without partial orders	Production
Quotations Quantity order Sales order/scheduling agreement Delivery	Sales & Distribution
Transport order	Warehouse Management