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Feb 14, 2011 at 09:23 AM

SAP and the FIFO issues

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Hi

I am a continuous improvement advisor in an medium sized factory and we are currently looking to streamline the purchase order through to despatch process.

The main problem seems to be the high quantity of part pallets we have due to the only supplier of a specific material only sends out 1375kg pallets . None of our customer wants 1375kg they want 1000kg pallets or less , so we end up with a large quantities of part pallets. We are dictated to by supplier as the product at the moment is quite rare.

When the sales department create a picking note on SAP due to the FIFO system there are potentially 5-6 pallets to be chosen first . the problem is the customer will not take batches with differing numbers due to their traceability causing them problems and we tend to receive complaints.

So we are stuck with part batches everywhere.

Can we remove these part pallets from the sap system and reblend these and create another batch number. Will SAP allow this to happen ? Our SAP people say "no" but I want to challenge that.

As anyone got any suggestions to help with this problem.

Thanks