Unit no cannot be converted to ST for product 34677"

[former_member205751]

hi

after snp run when i see /SAPAPO/OPTEXP   i find this recurring error many number of times ""  Unit no cannot be converted to ST for product 34677" my understanding is that the run is wanting  to convert from one unit to another ,and hence it is throwing the error...can you help with any documents that gives clarity on this specific error..i searched all over google i couldnt find any ..

[former_member458819]

Maintain the Unit of Measurement Conversion ST in Product Master /SAPAPO/MAT1.........

[emani_raghavendra]

HI Rahul,

As suggested by DB, you can maintain the AUOM in ECC for all materials, generally using LSMW and the CIF them to APO at once. .....

Thanks,

Emani

[former_member205751]

yup that is what am going to do......DB  idea  is most often foolproof ...but i think it is nice to try an ABAP program but then again mike is clear there is no standard program...so i need to write one ....guess inventors of SAP should have moved product master into material master ,so they both exist as one .....that would have made our job easier..establishing a synchrony beween two "masters" is a big headache

[emani_raghavendra]

Hi Rahul,

I didnt get you !! For what you want to write an ABAP Program ?? To update material master ( AUOM ) in ECC ?? It hardly takes 10-15 mins in desinging the LSMW for that task. Writing an ABAP Program is not a feasable solution i think.

Also, by CIF only you can maintain consistency between the masters in ECC & APO. It is advisible to have CIF jobs peroidically or CIF job whenever you have a data change in ECCwhich is relevant in APO.

I never thought establishing synchrony between the two masters is Headache ... IF you have proper and periodic CIF jobs its the most easiest one as everything is automated. Please note that you are facing error in APO BEACUSE YOU HAVE NOT MAINTAINED PROPER UOM IN ECC BUT NOT / MAY BE NOT BEACSUE THERE WAS NO UOM MAINTAINED IN APO.

Hope you understood the difference.

Thanks,

emani

[former_member205751]

valid point......so let me try with LSMW

[former_member205751]

hi

here comes a new twist , i checked with my client after seeing EA=ST;it appears the Implementors some 8 years back have fixed EA=ST  so "each"  will be taken as  "ST " by a short fix program running behind.during CIFing  every nite...even if entered as " EA" it will be refreshed to "ST"  ..so everything was going fine.  recently i asked a basis guy to upgrade from Scm 5.0  to  EHP 2 SCM 7.0 -after he leaving the company...the EA=ST is not working.he has successfully upgraded but leaving behind a trail of mal functioning enhancement ..how do i reactivate the enhancement any idea? basically the short fix program needs to run again. it appears the Implementors some 8 years back have fixed EA=ST  so "each"  will be taken as  "ST " by a short fix program running behind,during CIFing  every nite...even if entered as " EA" it will be refreshed to "ST"  ..so everything was going fine.  recently i asked a basis guy to upgrade from Scm 5.0  to  EHP 2 SCM 7.0 after he leaving the EA=ST is not working.he has successfully upgraded leaving behind a trail of mal functioning enhancement ..how do i reactivate the enhancement any idea?

[Former Member]

RO,

????  Upgrading a system is a project all by itself, just like any other project.  I hope you don't think that upgrading is something that Basis does in a vacuum....

Normally during upgrades the ABAP team works with Basis and Functional to manage any required changes to the enhancements.  During integration testing of the upgrade, the testers (you do have expert testers who know the existing business processes, right?) discover the problems and, like any other project, the functional and technical teams correct all the new problems that are discovered.  This is one of the unfortunate downsides of implementing enhancements - every upgrade can be a challenge; especially if the enhancements are poorly documented.

I assume that your 'fix' program is designed to add the requisite alternate Units Of Measure to the product masters.  Have your ABAPers look at the Material Master > Product Master enhancements on both sides (ECC and SCM).  Another possibility is that there was a job running before the upgrade that ran a program within SCM to add the data to the product masters.  To find these, search for failing jobs, failing Process chains, or jobs/PCs that were not released after the upgrade.

UOM touches just about every interface; not only master data CIFs but also transactional data CIFs.  Depending upon the solution that had been in place before the upgrade, SCM internal processing may have been enhanced as well.

I suggest you should have your ABAPers look at every CIF enhancement that has been implemented in your system.  CCR enhancements should be looked at as well.

Best Regards,

DB49

[former_member205751]

with the intelligence i am getting from you i could see that my system is very messy with too many superfluous enhancements ,many things could have been done by adopting standards,unraveling this mess is going to be a  project within a project,well i take your suggestion ;let ABAPers and basis take care of this issue

[Former Member]

Rahul,

Why are you working with UOM 'ST' anyway? Are you using the SAP standard planning area like 9ASNP05? Or did you create your own planning area with 'ST' as the UOM?

You should have created your own planning area with your most common base UOM like EA or PC.

You should have created your own planning books tied to your new planing area. Otherwise you can't make any changes to the structure of the PA like add KF. Maybe you can add some auxilliary KF. I don't remember.

There is no standard program to update alternative UOM. The ratio between ST and other UOM may change with the material which adds another variable to a mass load process.

Best regards,

Mike

[former_member205751]

i checked up ,it is not a standard planning area like snp05  they have made thier own planing area  snp_oe  some 6 years back ...with ST as UOM.if it is one material i can overlook it ,there are several materials.. i guess master data has to be revisted 

[former_member205751]

oh sorry the above  is not the image that tells the error...i posted the wrong ones

[emani_raghavendra]

Hi Rahul,

Please check in product master whether Alternate Unit of measurement ( AUOM ) is maintained  for conversion from Base unit of measurement to ST. If not , then maintain and check again.

Thanks,

emani

[former_member205751]

thanks mani explored that ....if  that specific error is an one time happening that is fine i can manually do it...after every SNP run (weekly run ) that error occurs for n  number of materials ...so i couldnt afford to change it in MAT1 each and every time after a run..is there a permanent solution for that. plz take a look at this image

https://picasaweb.google.com/102476031067485826096/Has

[Former Member]

RO,

AUM is normally CIF'd from ECC with the Materials.  This error indicates that the Material Masters in ECC don't have this defined (MM02).  This is a policy/procedure issue - If you need ST in APO then ALL such materials in ECC should have AUMs defined - preferably before CIFfing the materials into SCM.

I suggest that your End users responsible for Master Data need to be made aware of this problem, and have them come up with a resolution.

Best Regards,

DB49

[former_member205751]

https://picasaweb.google.com/102476031067485826096/Has#5957152663455569810

to locate AUM i searched every single field of MRP views ..would you please locate AUM...also i need to fix AUM   en masse...for all materials ....is there any provision.to get it done en masse.

i could see an alternative -here in  screen  XO suggests "do planning in APO but carry the attributes(definitions) of material from ECC to APO,instead how do i instruct the system to say something like "" carry all the attributes but for AUM alone i will give you a ABAP program whenever you come across material with a faulty AUM rectify it with ABAP program..take it over to APO and do planning ...hope i am talking sense.??

[Former Member]

RO,

MM02 > any tab > select Additional Data > Units of measure.

Here you add all the Alternate Units of measure for a material.  The Core interface moves this into APO without enhancement to the Units of measure tab in //MAT1 in APO.

Or, you could just tell the Master data people in your organization who perform these tasks on a day to day basis to take care of this ECC policy.  Your post leads me to believe that some of your materials don't have this problem.  I would conclude that 'somebody' has already created the alternate Units of measure for at least some of your materials.

You kind of lost me with your logic in the last paragraph, but I can say with confidence that there is unlikely to be any standard SAP program that will check and repair Material Master inconsistencies according to the logic you mentioned.  The way I would approach the problem would be to perform a one-time change to Material Masters in ECC for ALL affected X0 materials, using LSMW or similar, and then use RIMODINI in ECC to re-CIF all these materials into APO with the updated Units of measure.  Going forward, have your material master people add these U/Ms when they create new material masters.

FYI none of your recent picasa images have been viewable to me.  From other posts I have reviewed, I believe no-one else can see them as well.

Best Regards,

DB49

[former_member205751]

thanks DB for your kindly support....guess with screen shot  inputs i can fix the error.

well DB" insert image"  of the compose box doesn't seem to work   ...it appears like it is disabled...so am not able to insert images ..How did you succeed in inserting this image????  i tried fire fox..IE8,dragon,deleting cookies  from the browser...none of it works..How is that it works for you alone.....any magic ???

[Former Member]

RO,

I have never had any problems with images. Looking around, I don't believe most other SCN posters are having any problems either.  In general,  I clik on the insert image button and I get a subscreen which has a box to input the location of the source file.

Are popups disabled on your browser?  I have specifically configured my Internet browser so as to allow just about all of the sap sites to generate popups; I don't know if that contributes to my success.  Also, I have added SCN as a trusted site in my browser settings.  I have quite a few settings under trusted sites that are very permissive (e.g. allow the site to exercise a substantial amount of control over my browser).  Again, I don't know if this has any impact.

I believe there is a forum somewhere here that discusses such issues.  Maybe you should post your question there.

Best Regards,

DB49