Blocking of material in one plant only , in material master

[Former Member]

Dear SD Gurus

We have 2 manufacturing Plants . We have sometimes limited availability of material in one plant & the same is available in abundance in other plant

We want to stop the sale order punching for this material in first plant , but to allow the sale order punching in the second plant

In Material Master , in sale org-1 view , we can block the material only as per Sales Org / Channel & not as per plant

Now if we block the material in this way , order punching will be stopped in both the plants

Is there any way out to meet our purpose

[Former Member]

Hi,

One alternate solution could be to creat on Physical inventory document of the material for particular storage location.Keep a posting block while creating the goods issue document.(tcode-MI01)

As soon as you would like to start operations from first plant go to MI02 and delet the Phy Inventory document.

Regards

Sanjay

[Former Member]

Hi,

You can use the fields available in sales org /general plant view .

For Ex: Use material group 1 and have two option block/ Un block and maintain the same in the material master.

Now when you create a sales order with the same material and the first plant ( as per your scenario) the material group 1 will be copied in the sales order . With th ehelp of abaper put a validation that if the material group 1 for that material in the first plant is maintained as block through anerror message and wont allow system to create a sales order.

Hope this will help you.

regards,

Krishna O

[Former Member]

hi

Edited by: Jose.A on Aug 11, 2010 10:44 AM

[Lakshmipathi]

One simple and straight solution is that you dont maintain the FERT storage location for that plant in MMSC. The other workaround is you have to add this logic in your existing routine or go for a suitable exit.

thanks

G. Lakshmipathi