Material moved from Restricted with no QM Tx involvement

[former_member188029]

Hello Experts,

I've a very unusual situation I need explained if possible. I pose this scenario:

Incoming material is received via Mvt 101 >  Inspection 01 takes place > material is UDed "SCX"  "Restricted use with workflow"  ((Batch Managed))

Qty = 100.....

Over time the material sits in Restricted, but in the last two weeks the qty has been reduced by 25. 

The question is.....  following basic Batch Managed functionality...  this material is in status "Restricted".

If no QM Transactions were executed to release any, or all, of this material from "Restricted" and that's been confirmed.... yet the quantity of material has depleted..... How could this have happened?

I used the attached document as a baseline explanation of how the background SHOULD have functioned.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_46c/helpdata/en/a5/63393f43a211d189410000e829fbbd/content.htm

I hope I've included enough background info.. Much thanks in advance to this perplexer.....

Verroz

[former_member188029 · Accepted solution]

I'd like to update this to read this material was slowly depleted to it's current

quantity level via postings to production orders. This should have been disallowed.

The question stands: How was this allowed to happen?

Verroz

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

What do you mean by Restricted Stock??

Is it in Blocked Stock?? Production can / should consume the materials only from unrestricted stock.

Discuss with PP consultant & configure the system accordingly so that production order consumption can't happen from these.

[former_member42743 · Accepted solution]

Yes. check with your PP person.  Production/process orders are often allowed to withdraw material from restricted stock.  I believe this is configurable by the order type. 

This is allowed because production often reworks restricted material into new production.  It'll depend on your business and what you make.  In chemicals, it isn't unusual to maybe take a 55 gallon drum of restricted material and add it to say a batch of 5000 gallons where it's diluted so much it becomes a non-issue.

Other business's might have actual rework orders to fix or repair an item that failed initial inspections. 

So you have different order types for different processes.  And each order type can be set up in cofig to have different rules for withdrawing stock.

FF

[former_member188029 · Accepted solution]

FireFighter,

Answer is clear and succinct. Thanks for your help. Issue is closed.

Verroz

[former_member188029 · Accepted solution]

Hi Firefighter.....

When I go into CL02 and enter the class and class type, enter, next screen then click on

Char. tab.......

I see LOBM_ZUSTD........ where is the values field which is to be left blank if we want to

deactivate this functionality???

[former_member42743 · Accepted solution]

You can't modify the LOBM_ZUSTD field.  You can delete it from the class if you want to. 

But it is an SAP standard characteristic and cannot be fooled around with.  It basically references the MCH1_ZUSTD field.  It refers to the status (Released or Not Released).  This is only active if you've turned on batch status management for the plant in the batch configuration.

You can only change the value via MSC2n or by doing certain stock posting changes.

FF