New inspection lot Created when status of original is SPCO

[former_member335966]

Hi All on our finished good lots we are using early lot creation on the 04 inspection type. The reason is we need to test the samples before the actual Goods receipt. When the stock is Goods receipted we have built in this ship in QI functionality for partial amounts to push it out to external warehouse. What is happening is now that the lot is getting SPCO as all the stock is moved and when another Goods receipt happens from production a new inspection lot is created. We cannot make a UD on the original inspection lot as we have a follow on action that if we do it releases the stock in the external warehouse. So any help on generating a new inspection lot would be a lot of help thanks.

[former_member7790 · Accepted solution]

Hi Sinead,

Once stock posting completed for the early inspection lot, next goods receipt will create new inspection lot. This is a SAP standard behavior.  if you don't want to create new inspection lot then you should not post entire quantity before next goods receipt.

Early lot creation standard behavior is given below.

1.  UD is  done with an Acceptance and post all open stocks,the next goods receipt for the order  will not create new inspection lot and stock will be posted to unrestricted.

2. UD is  done with Rejection and post all open stocks,the next goods receipt will  create new inspection lot.

3. UD  is not done and stocks remains in inspection lot. next goods receipt will be assign to same inspection lot.

4. UD is not done and stock posting completed, next goods receipt will create new inspection lot.

Regards,

Vivek

[former_member335966 · Accepted solution]

Thanks Vivek for the above.

We have to post the whole quantity before the goods receipt as we don't have capacity for the stock so we are shipping it in QI. So I am wondering could we use some sort of user exit to get around not creating a new lot?

[former_member42743 · Accepted solution]

No. Not without directly modfiying basic system behavior which is a total no-no.  You'd have to directly update tables and it could get nasty to figure out everything you'd need to update/change and when.  It could also affect other transactions as well. 

Vivek has correctly pointed out how SAP has designed this. 

Can you possibly consider using an 03 lot for doing the prelimanary testing and then use the copy resutls functionality to copy those results to each 04 lot created?  That way, for a given order, you'd have a new inspection lot for each GR but all the 03 results would be copied into each one. since you have a customization to move the stock, you might be able to use the same exit to perform the copy results functionality.  It would require a separate UD for each of the 04 lots but the extra effort for that could be minmized maybe by using QA16.
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Craig

[former_member335966 · Accepted solution]

Hi Craig

Thanks for your feedback. This is what I thought you might say . I suppose we have completely modified basic system behaviour for shipping in QI so this is why we are left with this issue.

We can't put extra tests into the 03's as the operators will have a heart attack. So that is a no go as well.

only other option is there anyway to stop SPCO status some way?

If not we will just live with the multiple 04 lots.

[former_member42743 · Accepted solution]

The other option is to use batch status.  Have the lots created with restricted batch status and always post it to unrestricted stock (in inspection type setup for materia). That allows the stock to be moved to the external warehouse as restricted stock.  When the final UD is done, a stock posting is still required to be done. 

During the UD, the batch status is set to released which, of course is reflected in the external warehouse stock.  That stock can now be picked for orders.

You can decrease the chances a restricted batch getting picked by including LOBM_ZUSTD characteristic into your batch search strategies for orders.

Craig