Use

You have the option of carrying out the individual steps of material staging automatically. Material staging is divided into four or five steps which you can either process in dialog mode or automatically.

Prerequisites

In the initial screen for the pull list, in the Global Settings , under Dialog Control , you must determine which steps you want to carry out in dialog mode and which you want to be carried out automatically.

Alternatively, in the pull list, under  View Global settings , you can always determine which of the following steps are to be carried out automatically or in dialog mode. However, the step "Create replenishment proposals" is no longer available here.

Features

The following steps can be carried out automatically:

Here, the system uses the settings you made in the Global Settings , under Print. For more information here, please refer to Controlling the Print Procedure .

You can carry out all steps automatically in which case the system immediately posts the replenishment elements. Here, the system saves any messages created in the automatic process irrespective of your settings in the Global Settings . For more information, see Accessing the Error Log .

You can decide whether each individual step is to be processed automatically or in dialog mode.

You can save these settings as a display variant. For more information, see Defining Display Variants .

You also have the option of executing material staging as a background job which could run overnight, for example. In this case, the system carries out the first four steps automatically irrespective of the Global Settings defined in your variant. However, the last step (printing the replenishment elements) is only carried out automatically if you actually set the process to "automatic" in your variant.

( ) If you selected several staging types , such as, "event-driven KANBAN" and "WM release order parts", the system cannot post the replenishment elements automatically or in a background job due to the different views.