Availability check and Plant preference

[Former Member]

Hi Gurus !

I have 3 plants A, B and C.

When I create a Sales Order, I tried to customize a sequence to say :

- First check in plant B

- Second check in plant A

- Thrid check in plant C

Unfortunately, Availability check allow to check all stock in all plants (without any possible suggestion).

Moreover, in Material Master Data, the only way I found is to manage the delivery plant. But we can manage only one plant.

Do you have an idea ?

Many Thanks.

Stéphane

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

SAP provides automatic availability check in only one plant,

but at the time of sales order creation if you dont have the stock in one plant, system pops up a message saying confirmed qty is 0.

in that screen on the top you have one more field called other plants.

by pressing that we can check the availability of the material in other plants manually, during sales order processing.

hope this helps

regards

ravi

[former_member550050]

Hi

As per my knowledge in R3 Availability check happens in only one plant the( delivering plant which has come in sales order) and system stops after that

The Functionality which you are looking is available only in APO (ADVANCED PLANNING AND OPTIMZATION) not in R3

In APO system checks in plant A if stock is not available in plant A then checks plant B and still if stock is not available plant B then checks plant C

In APO if configured the system will create an automatic STO (from plant C to plant A as per this example) as plant A is the delivering plant in sales order

In APO system will create an automatic STO in the stock available to plant to the stock required plant

Regards

Raja

[Former Member]

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[Former Member]

Perfect.

But I see no link with Sales Order and Availability check, isn't it ?

[Former Member]

That is true, the scope can be used when you run MRP (MD01) or also you can assign it to planned order types in transaction OPU5. I find it strange that we cannot assign this scope to availability check in sales order or material master. I will check some SAP notes, and get back to you.

[Former Member]

Well, I know the answer now. When you create a sales order, you have to enter shipping plant and then conduct availibility check. When you are in the availability check screen, you can choose "Other Plants". In this screen you can choose individual plants and run a check.

It is strange that an automatic availability check cannot choose plants. Maybe there is a user exit. What transaction are you using now to check sales order availabiltiy check?

[Former Member]

Thanks for your answers.

I used TCode VA01, next "Check availability".

I'm very interesting if you know a user-exit to manage it automaticaly, means when I do "check availability", SAP will propose plant where we have stock.

[Former Member]

Try EXIT_SAPLATPC_001 and/or EXIT_SAPLATPC_002.