Batch Management

[Former Member]

Hi All,

Can somebody explain me the necessity of Batch Management in SAP mm>

Thanks & Regards,

Smitha

[former_member433442 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Batch management is used in process industries like pharma, food processing,etc.,The purpose is to keep track on the material manufactured or purchased. Here is the link for the details of batch management.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp60_sp/helpdata/en/ad/cc1f4015ae5c0ce10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm

Regards,

Prabu

[Former Member]

Thanks for all the replies.

[Former Member]

Batch Management is used in the entire logistics process from procurement to sales. Batches are the subset of a total quantity held in stock. Batch Management helps to trace the material in case of complaint. For Example, in the FMCG industry, if a material is produced and supplied in the retail market. One of the retalier complains of a defect in the product. It necessiates for the manufacturer to track the entire material that has been produced in one lot. This production lot manufactured can be tracked and taken back from the market effectively if the batches are assigned to the material. Hope you understand.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Batch management is used in processing industries like pharmacy and FMCG in order to track the goods

Regards

[former_member182609]

In simple terms SAP Batch Handling means an additional keys fields for users to identify the same materials.

For e.g. Normal Control : Plant + Material + Storage Location

Batch Hanlding : Plant + Material + Storage Location + Batch Number

The structure of the material master record allows you to manage stocks of a material by value at plant level or company-code level and by quantity down to storage-location level. Under certain conditions, you may need to make further subdivisions for a material and manage batches.

Certain materials' features cannot always be guaranteed to be exactly alike in production. For example, you cannot guarantee that a certain color will always have the same shade. Minor differences between production lots cannot be avoided. You need to be able to uniquely identify the individual production lots of the same material and manage them separately in inventory.

Materials that require such precise identification, for example pharmaceutical products, are identified and managed in stock not only according to material number, but also according to batch number.

With batch handling, you can manage not only production lots from in-house production, but also production lots from vendors as separate entities.

[BijayKumarBarik]

Hi,

Batch Management you doing means, you just subdividing the material according to the Characteristics.

Example....Lets say u have material is H2SO4,you are receiving 98%,70% and 50% according purity of H2SO4. According to you requirement and supply from Vendor you can keep material in three different batches according purity of H2SO4. This characteristics of a material can be maintain in creating the characteristic in batch management.

Note :

Batch management of existing material can not be done if it has stock and value.You can keep stock value NIL (By reversing) and then proceed with batch management.

For more check the link:

https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/ERPLO/Batch+Management

Regards,

Biju K