Batch Determination for Process and Production Orders

You can use batch determination in process and production orders to

• Find batches of components that are to be handled in batches, required for the

production of a material

• Conduct an availability check

• Reserve the batches found at the earliest possible point in time for an order

If you do not want to reserve at batch level in the production/process order, but consider

reservation at material level adequate, you can also run batch determination when you process a

consumption posting for an order (see section Triggering Batch Determination for Goods Issues)

You can use the following methods to allocate the selection criteria:

• The component in the production/process order is classified manually

• The component is classified in the bill of material for make-to-order production

• A batch selection is manually specified in the sales order or a customer/material strategy

exists

• The component is classified in the bill of material (see section Classifying Material List

Items and BOM Items)

• A strategy is available for the material number of the component

• Using the characteristics of the variant configuration in the sales order

The above list is identical to the sequence the system follows when it attempts to find a selection

class.

You use a certain raw material to manufacture 9 materials. You require batches with

identical specifications for the production of eight of these materials, to produce the

ninth material you require more detailed specifications. In this case, you create a

search strategy for the raw material. For the ninth material, you classify the

corresponding BOM item. As the system chooses selection classes using the

sequence described above, the batches required for the eight materials are found

using the search strategy, for the ninth material, the raw material is found using the

selection class with which you classified the BOM item.

Even if the system does not use a search strategy to determine the selection criteria but one of

the above methods, it nevertheless uses the batch determination rules (number of batch splits,

sort rule etc.) specified in the search strategy. This means, you always have to maintain a search

strategy.