New Material -- Allow Sales orders but, block shipment

[Former Member]

Hello All,

Our company receives & sells NEW products all the time before the official release to the customer.

We would like to continue taking Sales Orders for the NEW products but DO NOT allow shipping. We obviously DO NOT want these
products to ship out before the official release.

We would like it to show on our stock reports as product available and show up during ATP check in the Sales order process.

How can we achieve the following --

Q-1.  Show as product avail and show up on our stock reports. 

Q-2.  Allow Sales Order process but prevent shipping.

Thank you for your help,

Victor

[BijayKumarBarik]

Hi,

Create a blocking key for No delivery-ZD in T.code: OMS4 for inventory managment segement and set B(Error) and then assign this blocking key ZD to your material master(finished product/sales material) in Basis data-1 and save. Now create sales order and try to do delivery , system would not
allow you to do delivery(601 movement type) which material assigned to blocking key ZD.

When ever needed, you can remove blocking key ZD from material master by an authorised user and then do delivery!

Stock Report check in t.code:S_P00_07000139

Regards,

Biju K

[Former Member]

Hi Bijay,

Hi Tej,

Thank you for your directions and suggestions.  

[tejyadav]

To achieve this you can define 1 "Material status" from Path > SPRO > Logistics - General > Material Master > Settings for Key Fields > Data Relevant to Sales and Distribution > Define Sales Statuses,

Here maintain "B" for field "Block delivery" , Maintain this Status in Material Master in "Sales: sales org. 1" in Field "X-distr.chain status", This way you can make the Sales Order for the Material but can't do the delivery, Later when you need to release then Remove this Status from the Material Master & Proceed.

[tejyadav]

T-code for this path is OVSU & not OMS4

[Former Member]

Hi Tej,

Thank you for your correct answers.  

[Former Member]

Hi Victor,

Q-1. For this case, you need to know the availability check and the ckecking rule that you are using for your material. The standard is i.e. Availability check "01" and checking rule "A - Sales order". Once you know this data, go to SPRO > Sales and Distribution > Basic Functions > Availability Check and Transfer of Requirements > Availability check > Availability check with ATP ... > Carry out control for Availability check. There, double click on your availability check and checking rule.

In the next screen, check if the check box "Include sales reqmts" is selected and with that, once you create a sales order, the system will check if the material is available.

NOTE: For the case of the MRP, I think, the standard availability check is 02 and checking rule is PP. There, you need to check if this check box is active. Then, once the MRP can be executed, the system will check the availability of the material against the sales orders too.

Q-2. Through customising, you can define a delivery block and how this can work. This blocking can be showed once the sales order is created. Check the customising in SPRO > Logistic Execution > Shipping > Deliveries > Define Reasons for Blocking in Shipping.

There, you can define a reason for blocking and active some check box that will allow for example, once the sales order is created and saved, the delivery block reason will be showed (the user can change this data during the creation). The blocking can be defined at item level too.

I hope this information can help.

Kind regards,

SP