Weight Zero in sales order

[Former Member]

Hi SAP folks,

Need your help to solve the following issue.

In sales order for certain materials Net Weight(VBAP_NTGEW),Gross Weight(VBAP-BRGEW),Weight Unit(VBAP-GEWEI) is blank. In material master we have maintained all these details and also we have maintained appropriate alternative units. The interesting part is that this doesn't happen regularly. Only for certain sales order this happens. Some time in error log we see an entry saying Weight unit is blanked out. But when asked the user who has created sales order , he/she says they never change those fields.

So my question is, does any change in sales order affects weight unit change? Or does this happens because some inappropriate data in material master.

Looking forward for your suggestions.

Thanks in advance.

[former_member223981 · Accepted solution]

Do a search in include MV45AFZZ for NTGEW, BRGEW & GEWEI respectively to see if your custom code is changing anything.

[former_member182805]

Does it change when you change the sales order type? Because, the sales order type determines the item category and in turn, the item category determines whether the item is wt/volume relevant or not.

So, for sales orders where the weight is 0, please check the item category for that item and then, check in the definition of that item category whether it is relevant for weight/volume or not

[Former Member]

Thanks all for your valuable inputs.

I have checked the item category is standard item category TAN. And Item category TAN is marked as relevant for weight/volume.

I will check with userexits.

[Lakshmipathi]

for certain materials Net Weight(VBAP_NTGEW),Gross Weight(VBAP-BRGEW),Weight Unit(VBAP-GEWEI) is blank

If the material master is blank, then in sale order also, it will be blank.  On the other hand, if weight is maintained in the material master but in sale order, in certain cases, if it is blank,  either some exit is working or user would have changed.  Of course, you can track these changes from the sale order menu bar "Environment > Changes".

Needless to mention, this can very well be controlled via item category configuration where there is a field "Weight/Vol.Relevant".  Check this box so that system will not allow you to save the sale order without these data.

G. Lakshmipathi

[Former Member]

Hi,

If change logging is active for VBAP table (for those specific fields), then you can determine how, when, and who changed those fields from your sales order (from SO, Environment -> Changes); as what Noel has mentioned, there could be a custom program/exits/routine calls that greatly affect the behavior of your system's SO creation/modification. You can consult with your ABAP developer/programmer on this matter to do some program check/ debugging in production or test (if you can replicate the issue) environment.