Setting up Discontinued Materials in SAP

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

I require your assistance in setting up the Discontinued Materials functionality in SAP.

We don't use BOMs but generate the demand through Projects and work orders.

The scenario is, I have a material (A) with a current stock balance of 4 which is to be discontinued and Material B will be used in its place.

In Material A I have change the Discontin. ind. in MRP 4 screen to 1, mentioned a Effective Out Date (past date) and added the follow-up material as Material B.

Then I ran MRP for both Materials (A & B).

There is a new demand of 10 for Material B.

Since Material B is mentioned as the follow up material to Material A, I expected MRP to assign the balance stock (Qty 4) of Material A to Material B and generate requisitions for the balance requirement.

Instead purchase requisitions were generated for Qty 10 for Material B and the stock Req list for material A shows a Qty of 4 with a line saying - Effective Out Date(Past date I entered).

Am I doing the process wrong or is there any configuration involved? Can you please guide me in implementing Discontinued Materials in an environment where we don't use BOMs.

Thank you in advance.

Regards,

Randi

[Former Member]

Hi,

Do check the below OSS Note it may help you..

166267 - TIP: Changed material master data in demand management

[ajitkumar]

I think if the requirement was for A, say 6 items, the 4  A would have been consumed and created PR for 2 qty of B
A =>  B  does not mean B => A

[Former Member]

Hi Ajit,

Thanks for the response.

Don't think you understood the scenario well. I'll explain again.

There is NO requirement for A but there is Qty of 4 stocks remaining to be issued.

A is replaced by B and is updated in the MRP4 view as the follow up material.

There is a requirement of Qty 10 for B. I want to know whether B would take the Qty 4 from A and generate purchase reqs only for Qty 6. I have the setting as stated above and run MRP for both materials.

Please enlighten me on how the Discontinued Materials scenario in SAP works.

Thanks,

Randi

[ajitkumar]

If you look in table MARC, you can find data for your material A that It is discontinued and the follow on material is B; you dont find any data for material B that A is the precedor material.

[Former Member]

Yes you are right. But do you know how to allocate the remaining stock of A to B by running MRP.

Is it a setting in the MRP run that can allocate the remaining stock?

[former_member182609]

If your discontinuing the Material A and moving to B then do transfer Material to Material.Use 309 movement type to transfer Material A to Material B then run MRP check how much it is raising demand.

[Former Member]

Hi Sridhar,

Thanks for the response.

Is this the correct way of using the Material discontinue functionality in SAP? - to do a material to Material transfer?

I thought SAP will automatically transfer the stock of the discontinued material to the new one during the MRP run as that should be the purpose of the Material Discontinue function(as per the following link)

Discontinued Parts (SAP Library - Material Requirements Planning (PP-MRP))

Also is there any configuration involved?

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Cheers,

Randi

[former_member182609]

I believe as per below help information you need to use existing stock.

When replacing a component with another, however, the stock of the old material should be used up before the new one is introduced in order to avoid dead stock.

[Former Member]

Yes, the Discontinued Material solution is created in order avoid such dead stock from a discontinued material. As per the SAP help (in the above link) the remaining stock of the discontinued material (A) should be allocated to Material B upon running MRP.

I did run MRP and made the settings as instructed but couldn't make the process work.

If you are aware, can you please let me know the step by step process in implementing the Discontinued Materials.

Many thanks,

Randi