Purpose
This process describes how you create specifications for a material and its batches.
Process Flow
1. You define properties of the material and its batches and store them as characteristics in the
classification system.
You can define all those properties that you consider important and useful for batch
determination as characteristics.
If you create a numerical characteristic, you must enter a unit of measurement. If you
do not enter the unit of measurement, you cannot link the characteristics to the
master characteristics of the Quality Management component.
2. You create classes for the material and the batches and assign the characteristics to the
classes.
You can use the same class for different materials.
Class type
You must assign the class to a class type. There are two class types of the category
Batch for batches and their materials:
– 022 at plant level
– 023 at client or material level
3. You create the material master record, assign the desired class to the material and assign
characteristics to the material.
– You can store tolerance ranges for the batches of the material in the material master
record. This is possible as the material and the batches are in the same class.
– You can assign only one class to each material. This means that multiple
classification is not possible.
– You can only create batches for a material if the material is to be handled in batches.
To do this, you must set the Batch management indicator in the material master
record. You will find this indicator depending on the material type in either the
Purchasing view, the Work Scheduling view, or the Storage view.
– The replenishment lead time should not be considered in the dynamic availability
check for batches, since batches are not reproducible. In the General Sales view, or
in the MRP view, choose availability check group CH. Group CH takes the identical
inward and outward movements as group 01 into account, but does not consider the
replenishment lead time. For further information, see section Types of Availability
Check in Sales and Distribution Processing [Ext.] in the SD - Sales and Distribution
Processing documentation.
4. Depending on the system settings, you create the batch master record manually, or you let
the system carry this out automatically.
Assigning Actual Values to a Batch
Actual values can be assigned to batches in the following ways:
– The system automatically transfers the inspection results from Quality Management
(QM) if the master inspection characteristics are linked to the general characteristics.
See section General Characteristic [Ext.] in the QM – Basic Data documentation.
– You can use a customer exit in the background to assign values to characteristics
that are not from QM (time of goods receipt, for example). All required goods
movement data is available in the customer exit interface. The data is controlled
according to the movement type. You make the necessary settings in Customizing
for Batch Management, under Batch valuation → Customer Exit for classification of
user-defined characteristic.
– You enter the actual value manually.
For each movement type you can configure the system so that it branches
automatically, or only on request to the classification system. See Customizing for
Batch Management under Define batch creation for goods movements.
You will see the specifications you assigned to the class in the Characteristic Value
Assignment screen in the classification system. You can call up the values you
assigned to this material at material level by choosing Material. The characteristic
values you assigned at material level can either be taken over directly for the batch
or can be used as inspection characteristics.
Result
• The system recognizes that the material is to be handled in batches.
• You must enter a batch number for each goods movement of this material.
• You can create batch master records. See also Creating a Batch Master Record
You can also use batch management for materials that are assigned a serial number
profile.
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