Conversion factor in SAP WM transactions

[kartheek_epuri]

Hi All,

I am in the following situation

In Warehosue stock is received in LB's but SAP WM stores in terms of KG's as base unit of measure is in KG's. We do goods issue in terms of LB's agaian. system converts KG's to LB's and the process continues. In this process of action ,Converting LB's to KG's and KG's to LB's there is certian stock (though minute amount most of the times) is left over in the bin. How to handle this kind of situation .

[mihailo_sundic · Accepted solution]

Whatever you do, my advice is to set up the system in a way so that you will never have those leftovers again. Let's analyze the problem step by step.
1. You are receiving goods in LB from vendor/production/whatever physically?

2. You are receiving in KG in putaway process in WM since KG is base UoM?
3. You are picking in LB physically, but you are forced to process TOs in KG?

Solution (please test on DEV and QAS system thoroughly):
1. Assign WM unit of measure to your materials (of course set it to be LB).

2. Assign proposed unit of measure from mat. as 'M' - WM unit also for other UoM...
Both of these fields are populated in Warehouse Management view 1.
Or you can mass change it by using MM17, look for fields MLGN-LVSME and VOMEM.

Regards,
Mihailo

[kartheek_epuri · Accepted solution]

We decided to create report to pull all the dust left over in bins and scrapping them with a custom program.

[former_member711822 · Accepted solution]

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[JL23]

Clear those dust quantities with physical inventory

[kartheek_epuri]

HI Jurgen,

It would be a painful process to clear them . Everyday 1000's of transactions and clearing them individually is time taking process.Is there a better way to do this ?

Thanks

kartheek

[JL23]

you know your materials best, if you can build a general rule that would allow a program to do the clearance, then it could be easily achieved behind the scenes using the Function Modules and Customer Exits in WMS (SAP Library - Warehouse Management System (WMS))

[Former Member]

You may consider to use manual "Zero Stock Check" to clear the difference when confirming the picking TO in LT11. The small left over amount will be moved to storage type 999 automatically after you confirm zero stock. You can then cleared storage type 999 by LI21 regularly.

[Former Member]

Hi Kartheek,

We had a similar issue with one of my client during conversion factor.

The possible solutions could be:

1. The sales unit of the material should be the base unit of measure.

2. Even if the sales unit is different than the base unit of measure. Convert the sales unit to base unit of measure to a rounding figure while delivery creation and TO creation. This would need some development effort.

Regards

[kartheek_epuri]

HI Sumanth ,

Changing Sales unit of the material to base unit of measure is not possible. Can you elaborate more regarding the second option i.e development

Thanks

Kartheek

[Former Member]

Hi Kartheek,

Hope you are facing this problem, when the quantity is being split based on the quantity available or split between multiple bins to satisfy the delivery quantity.

You can restrict or change the quantity while delivery creation and eradicate the decimal quantities by converting the sales unit to base unit. So during the convertion of LB to KG, we will round it of to a number and remove the decimal quantity.

For ex: a customer orders 5 LBs of Mat1, which is 2.267 KGs(depends on ur material conversion). so the delivery creation will be done for 2 KGs and leave out the decimal value.

To acheive this, enhancements will be needed at the below program and some other places too. Technical team can help you in this regard. 

Program Name: SAPMV50A

Include Name: MV50AF0A

Form Name: auftrag_referieren

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Sumanth