Configuring MM Goods Receipt
Feb 23, 2016
Configuring MM Goods Receipt
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Problems Goods can disappear due to theft
What is a case of Lipitor worth? Too much material on the shop floor
make it difficult to get around And goods might get damaged or
misplaced
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Solution A goods reservation is a request to
the warehouse to withdraw materials at a later date for a particular purpose This way goods will be available when
needed We call this a reservation for goods issue
Note that reservations are taken into account by MRP (more later)
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Reservation (Types) Manual
Make by a user Automatic
Generated by the SAP R/3 system Reorder point planning
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Reservation (Contents) Which material is needed How much When From where (plant or warehouse) To where (pant or customer)
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Reservation (Outcomes) A reservation document providing an
audit trail of the request Reserved stock in the material master
record is increased In MRP, the available stock is reduced
by the reserved quantity
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Reservation Details Whether goods movements are allowed
for reservation items If the reservation date is greater than
the days movement allowed, then goods movements are not allowed yet We cannot move reserved goods too soon
The retention period is how long the reservation is maintained by the system until it expires (if the goods in the reservation are never used)
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Reservation Details (Illustration)
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Materials Management Tolerances Suppose we ordered 1000 units but
received 1024 units MM tolerances allow users to accept
discrepancies within tolerable ranges The cost to correct would likely be
greater than the cost to fix
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Materials Management Tolerances A tolerance key depicts the type of
tolerance / variance Upper and lower limit values can be
express as Absolute values Percentanges
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Purchasing Tolerance Keys Purchasing tolerances apply to
purchasing and the allowable variance in cash discounts
Other tolerance limits can be created
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Purchasing / Invoicing Tolerances Here, we are specifying the deviation
between the purchase order and the amount of the corresponding invoice
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Goods Receipt Tolerances The variation between a purchase order
or production order and the actual amount received that will be allowed
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Goods Receipt Tolerance Keys
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Goods Receipt Tolerance Keys B1 causes an error message B2 causes a warning message
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Invoice Tolerance Limits
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Invoice Tolerance Limits