Multiple Posting change notice created for one material document

[Former Member]

Hi All,

The scenario is that the user needs to transfer material from unrestricted to quality stock type. while doing so the storage type is different than the actual storage type for the material. Meaning if the material is normally stored in high rack storage type, when it is found that the material is damaged or expired it need to be moved to the quality storage type. For this the user will first create material document in IM with movement type 322 transferring material from unrestricted stock to qualtiy stock. A PCN will be created in back ground which will in turn be converted manually by the user to a TO. while doing so the user will pick the quant manually from the required storage type and select the destination storage type as the quality or quanranntine area.

The issue here is that system creates one PCN for each material document line item. The requirement is that the system should create only one PCN with multiple lines for one Material document.

The setting in the movememnt type clearly says that it will behave as it is behaving.

Is there any other way or setting by which we can create one PCN with multiple line items for a material document.

Would look forward to your replies.

Regards,

Jeetendra

[Former Member]

Is it batch managed?

If it is batch managed, each quant is specific to each batch and will create a separate PCN for each line item.

[Former Member]

Thanks Subramanian for reply.

Yes it is batch managed. is there any way out by which we can create one PCN with different lines.

Would apprrciate your reply.

Regards,

Jeetendra

[Former Member]

Hi Jeetendra,

It is technically impossible to have one PCN for one material document with multiple transfer posting items. If you check the PCN table LUBU, you will notice that there is no such field called "PCN item". Also from the "Additional Data..." when displaying a PCN (LU03), you can see that a PCN is mapped to the combination of material document number and item number.

Would you share the reason why users have this one PCN per material document requirement?

[Former Member]

Thanks and Sorry for the delayed reply. We have now convinced the users that the system behaviour is standard and we cannot change the same.

To your question about the need to have one PCN with multiple lines please note that the setup is such that when material document is created for transferring material from unrestricted to quality and vice versa this document is created with multiple materials in one go. Now when the PCN is to be converted to TO then the user ends up in creating number of TO's equal to the number of lines in the Material Document. We wanted to avoid this and hence this was posted in SDN.