Expired stock being picked for production order staging.

[kevinsutton]

Hi all,

While picklists are being generated for production order staging, materials that are past their expiry date are being selected and allowed to be picked and confirmed. Is there a way that such expired materials can be excluded from picking?

Many thanks in advance.

Kevin.

[philippe_marque]

Hi,

You are batch managed. You can have a batch search strategy that will exclude the batches with expired dates.

I did it already on some projects.

Rgds,

Philippe

[Former Member]

Hi,

As mentione dby Philippe, You can make use of batch search strategy to avoid picking of expired batches be it for production or Customer delivery.

You can use LS51 transaction to setup batch search strategy WM01 (at Warehouse level) or WM02 (Warehouse / movement type). Hope you maintain classification data for your materials (023 batch class) where you maintain expiry duration and productioninformation etc. In LS51, select the appropriate batch class and maintain batch parameters as released and sort the strategy by Shelf life expiration date.

Storage type startegy search (T334T) has to be maintained accordingly.

If this helps you kindly reward your points.

thanks and regards

Varadharajan

[Former Member]

Hi,

One more information.

We can schedule a background job to monitor those material stocks which are about to expire and do the automatic treansfer posting to blocked stock.

Thanks and Regards

Varadharajan

[Former Member]

Hi Kevin,

First thing is, especially in FMCG industry or where you have this SLED (Shelf Life Expiration Date) concept, you need to use 'H' as the Picking strategy. So that, during picking it will pick based on the H - expiration date. By this strategy, the system will eliminate expired materials while picking.

If you don't want to use this strategy and want to use the expiration date, you need to run a report (MB5M) which will gives the list of Expired materials based on your selection criteria.

Hope it is helpful for you.

Aktar