Discontinuation functionality with production orders

[Former Member]

Dear Guru's,

Can anyone please confirm: is the functionality for discontinuation of a material (including follow-up material) not available with production orders?

Example: in our system we have component A that is followed up by component B. This is set in material master - MRP 4.

We also have production orders for the upcoming 4 months in our system. If the stock of component A is depleted within these 4 months, we would expect to see requirements (orderreservations?) on component B, but this is not the case.

Thanks for any comments,

Rgds, AJ

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi

Discontinuation works for Production orders.Couple of Checks needed for both Follow up and Discontinued Materials to arrive to actual problem

1) Base unit of measure must be same

2) Should have same MRP type

3) Not defined as Co-Products

For detailed info pl refer the link

[Discontinuation|http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/b1/c044d1439a11d189410000e829fbbd/content.htm]

Regards

Brahmaji

[Former Member]

Discontinuation works with Production orders

At order create the follow up material is proposed as 0 quantity. you will need to activate ATP checks to ensure the correct requirements are placed on the right component.

There are certain combinations that wont work however, you cannot maintain a discontinued material inside an alternate BOM group.

If you are using MRP the parent BOM must be MRP relevant and follow up materials will be introduced during the MRP run based on inventory. The requirements are then transfered to the production order during the conversion.

~S