Use

The system can use rounding to automatically adjust the procurement quantity of a receipt to delivery, packaging or transport units. Rounding makes sense, for example, if a supplier only delivers externally-procured products in bundles of ten pieces or if you pack and transport products produced in-house in palettes of 100 pieces each.

You can carry out rounding as follows:

Here the system must round the procurement quantity of a receipt to the next multiple of the rounding value. The permitted procurement quantities are therefore scaled equally.

In a rounding profile, depending on threshold values, you can define various rounding values that correspond, for example, to packaging units of various sizes. For more information, see Rounding with Rounding Profiles .

You can use rounding for the following standard lot-sizing procedures:

Rounding is not relevant for manually creating a receipt; here the system always creates a receipt with the required yield.

Integration

The system carries out rounding based on the total procurement quantity that it determined previously using the defined lot-sizing procedure and the assembly scrap. The system takes account of the minimum lot size and the maximum lot size . If you have defined a maximum lot size the system splits the total procurement quantity into several partial quantities of the same size as the maximum lot size; that is, into several receipts. A receipt should be created for the remaining quantity whose procurement quantity the system determines according to the minimum lot size and the rounding parameters.

If you use a minimum and a maximum lot size, you should adjust them to the rounding value (or with the rounding profile, to the rounding values) as follows:

Prerequisites

In order that the system uses a rounding value or a rounding profile you must have specified a rounding value or a rounding profile in the location product master. If you specify a rounding value and a rounding profile in the location product master the system uses the rounding profile.

Example of rounding with a rounding value

For a product produced in-house, you have defined an assembly scrap of 20%, a minimum lot size of 20 pieces, a maximum lot size of 100 pieces and a rounding value of 20 pieces. To cover an uncovered requirement of 200 pieces, 250 pieces must be produced altogether, taking the assembly scrap into account. Due to the maximum lot size of 100 pieces, the system creates two receipts with a procurement quantity of 100 pieces each (corresponding to a yield of 80 pieces each). The system rounds up the remaining quantity of 50 pieces to 60 pieces (3 x 20) and creates a receipt with this procurement quantity (corresponding to a yield of 48 pieces).