Batch Determination Process

Purpose

This process describes how you find suitable batches for a business transaction.

Here are some examples of business transactions in different applications:

Prerequisites

• You must have assigned a search procedure to the business transaction. The search

procedure contains different strategy types that are relevant for the business transaction.

• There must be a batch search strategy for one of the strategy types. See also Creating a

Batch Search Strategy [Page 49].

• The selection class must contain at least one of the characteristics with which the batch

was classified. See also Definition of a Batch Search Strategy [Page 46].

Process Flow

1. You start batch determination manually, or the system starts automatic batch

determination.

2. The system then carries out the following steps in succession:

• it looks for a search procedure for the business transaction

• it searches through the strategy types listed in the search procedure for a search

strategy. The first valid search strategy is adopted and all other search strategies are

ignored.

• it then uses the characteristics from the selection class of the search strategy to look

for batches with suitable specifications

• it checks whether the batches are అవైలబ్లె

• it sorts the batches that were found and are available according to the sort rule from

the search strategy

• the system selects a proposed quantity in accordance with the proposed quantity

from the search strategy.

• the system proposes that batch determination is to run online, providing that the

search strategy contains the information