Batch Management

Purpose

In various industries – particularly the process industry – you have to work with homogenous

partial quantities of a material or product throughout the logistics quantity and value chain.

There are various reasons for this:

• Legal requirements (for example, the guidelines set out by GMP(Good Manufacturing

Practice) or regulations on hazardous material

• Defect tracing, callback activities, and regression requirement

• The need for differentiated quantity-and value-based Inventory Management (for example,

due to heterogeneous yield/result qualities or varying constituents in Production.

• Differences in usage and the monitoring thereof in materials planning in SD and Production.

• Production or procedural requirements (for example, settlement of material quantities on the

basis of different batch specifications).

Integration

Batch Management is integrated in all applications of the R/3 System. It supports the

management and processing of batches in all of a company’s business processes.

Features

• Batch number assignment

You use this function to assign a batch with a number that uniquely identifies it.

• Batch specifications

You use this function to describe each batch uniquely using characteristics and

characteristic values. You specify the permitted value range in the allocated material

master record.

• Batch status management

You use this function to indicate whether a batch is usable or unusable. You set this

status:

– Manually in the batch master record or at goods receipt

– Automatically in the usage decision in quality management

• Batch determination

With this function, you can use various criteria to search for batches that are in stock, for

example:

– when posting goods issues

– when combining suitable material components for production orders and process

orders

– when creating a delivery according to particular customer requirements

• Batch where-used list

– The batch record contains all quality-relevant planned and actual data for the

production of a batch and complies with the GMP guidelines (Good Manufacturing

Practices) for the pharmaceutical industry and food industry.

– The path of the batch from Procurement to delivery to your customer is shown in the

batch where-used list.

• Active ingredient management

You use this function to administrate and process materials with active ingredients that

are to be handled in batches.