Transfer requirement without batch ¿How create TO with batch?

[gvallejo]

I have the following requirement from my client.

Sales Department need to inform WM that I need to assign x units of a material to a sales order.

They do it from IM with a 411E movement, but obviously this forces them to indicate a batch. The sales staff that makes the move does not know which batch to choose, so choose any one available in IM.

When WM staff tries to confirm the created TO, they would prefer to take another different batch for any reason.

I know that the batch can not be modified from the TO, so I understand that the problem should be solved before, in IM when creating the 411E movement, that the system determines the appropriate batch automatically, is it possible?

Although ideally I think it would be that sales staff did not create a 411E, but instead made a request (a transfer requirement) to WM staff through the LB01. In this way the sales staff only needs to indicate quantity and material, it does not have to indicate batch.

My question is, how can WM staff manage the transfer requirement? I understand that they have to convert it to an TO, but in that TO WM staff has to indicate the batch manually or could that batch be determined automatically?

Thank you

[gvallejo]

Ok, Jurgen, sorry

[JL23]

Batch determination in MIGO is done via the button Stock determination, of course you need to setup your strategy for this. Kindly search the community as the setup of batch determination has been explained countless times.

[gvallejo]

Uppps, now I see in my customizing that movement 411-E has an scheme for batch determination but 412-E hasn't. Nevertheless 413 (is the same that 412-E) has the scheme.

Perhaps this is the user-sales staff problem. They use 412-E instead 413

Thanks Jurgen.

[gvallejo]

Hi Jurgen.

I try to explain myself better.

Currently sales staff to reserve stock for a sales order, make a MIGO 411E, they know what material and quantity they need but they do not know what batch choose, so they choose any of the batches available in MMBE.

Once the MIGO is recorded, the system takes them to the TO recording where the system proposes a UA for batcht that they have previously chosen in MIGO 411E. All this is done by sales staff who do not really have information on what batch they should have choose so they choose one at random.

When the WM staff picks up the TO to carry out the picking and confirms it, observes that there are batches of the material in a better location or older ones that should have been used instead of the one the TO has to choose.

The sales staff asks us if there is any way to do this procedure without them having to indicate the batch in MIGO or that the batch in MIGO is automatically determined to choose the appropriate one according to FIFO.

I think is possible that they do not record a MIGO-411E and record a transfer requirement, which does not oblige to indicate batch. Then WM staff will convert transfer requirement into an TO, but I would like that when creating TO the batch is determined automatically according to FIFO.

What do you think?

Thanks

[JL23]

Your process is pretty confusing.

First the sales person enters a batch and then the warehouse worker does not want to pick that batch and wants to pick a different batch.

And in the new scenario you want that the sales person creates the TR without batch, and then the warehouse person does not know what batch to pick.

So why is the warehouse person in the first scenario able to demand a different batch and in the second scenario he is not able to know what batch he want to pick at all?

Of course is a batch determination in WM possible, but will the warehouse person be satisfied with that proposal?

Based on what information shall the batch be determined?

Batch determination is possible in all modules, so it might be possible to do it already right in 411E, but without knowing how you want the batch be determined it is impossible to tell you if that is the right place or if you really need to change the process.