Material stock identify

[former_member587534]

Hi,

We have a business scenario for which we need you expert suggestions,

We purchase (import) trading goods (like: Electric Bulb) from various vendor from china, who delivers same designed product and price varies vendor to vendor. But for warranty we need to track separate so that when we got complain from customer we have to identify from which vendor this product was bough and have to send them for warranty. We don’t have serial number on product. In legacy software we used to keep separate material number for each vendor though the material name is same printed in invoice during sales to customer.

In SAP we like to keep 1 material code and have to identify vendor of the material for warranty. How to achieve this without serial/Batch number concept, need your expert suggestion.

[DominikTylczyn]

Hi Jurgen, I can not agree more.

However there is a way to get stock age information without batch management, at least to some extent. One can use FIFO balance sheet valuation data and derive stock aging data from there. That is limited to monthly bucket and might be of interest mostly to FI people. Of course it's not an alternative to batch management.

Best regards

Dominik Tylczyński

[JL23]

You simply cannot get this information without batch management, I explained it in my blog: How old is my stock / from which vendor is my stock

[DominikTylczyn]

Hi Rajib, even if the trade materials are not physically marked with batch numbers, you can still introduce batch management for them in SAP. You can have a single batch for each vendor number, even have batch number = vendor number (both numbers are 10 chars long) if this is the tracking level you require.

It looks like you need to track from which vendor you've both the material to identify the vendor and warranty condition in case of a customer complaint. Therefore I assume that logistics and sales people can track the vendor physically, they somehow know from which vendor the material was bought when it is sold, don't they? If I'm right, the only challenge is to pick up the right SAP functionality to model the physical tracking process. This tool is batch management.

HTH & BR

Dominik Tylczyński

[DominikTylczyn]

Batch management is your solution here.

[former_member587534]

Hi Dominik,

Thanks for your answer, but as those materials are Trading and they dont have batch / serial number marked on the packet, so we cant open the box and print the Batch/serial number on the material.

In this situation how can we segregate or identify the material sold was imported from which vendor.

Thanks

RAIM

[former_member587534]

Thanks to all, i got the sense that without batch or serial this functionality is not possible. i just tried to find if any alternative. So closing the thread.

[BalaAP]

Hi,

You can try using customer-material number field in sale order for entering the required information (like vendor number from whom the item was bought) and same can be printed in the sale order for identification. Or you can also check whether item description can be entered in customer -material info record using tcode VD51 and update with the required tracking information and use this in sale order.

regards

Bala

[BalaAP]

Hi,

You can update any specific info. in the sale order item description field while making the sale order - at the line item level. (By default, text from material master will appear).

regards,

Bala.