Sd1007: Availability Check & Transfer of Requirements V1.0: India Sap Coe, Slide 1
Sd1007: Availability Check & Transfer of Requirements V1.0: India Sap Coe, Slide 1
Sd1007: Availability Check & Transfer of Requirements V1.0: India Sap Coe, Slide 1
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India SAP CoE, Slide 2
Availability Check & TOR
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Purpose
When a customer places an order for a material and requests that the material be
delivered to him on a specific date. This delivery date can only be confirmed after
ensuring the material availability after considering all the inward as well as out
ward stock movements
The availability check shall happen and take into account the respective activities
that must be carried before a delivery can take place
•We need to ensure that when availability check fails, i.e., when the
requested delivery date cannot be met from the nearest distribution
center, then to check in other centers if goods delivery is possible from
one of these centers.
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India SAP CoE, Slide 7
Availability Check – Overview
Checking Rule: The use of Checking rule to control the scope of the availability
check for each transaction in sales and distribution. You also specify the check
should including or excluding replenishment lead time
Delivery item category: The delivery item category can be used to control
whether an availability check takes place in deliveries.
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Prerequisites for Availability Check
1. The availability check must be switched on at the requirements
class level
Menu Path: Display IMG Sales & Distribution Sales Sales Documents
Schedule Lines Define Schedule Line Categories
Assign Requirement
Class to Requirement
Type
Menu Path: Display IMG Sales & Distribution Basic Functions Availability Check &
TOR TOR Define Requirement Types
India SAP CoE, Slide 19
Availability Check - Configuration
1. Define Checking Groups:
Use standard SAP checking group “01” for daily requirements and 02 for individual
requirements. In order to create new group, copy an existing group, change the
name (ensure that the name starts with “Z”) and description to your preference
IMG Sales & Distribution Basic Functions Availability Check & TOR Availability Check
Availability Check with ATP Logic or Against Planning Define Checking Groups
IMG Sales & Distribution Basic Functions Availability Check & TOR Availability Check
Availability Check with ATP Logic or Against Planning Define Material Block For Other Users
IMG Sales & Distribution Basic Functions Availability Check & TOR Availability
Check Availability Check with ATP Logic or Against Planning Carry Out Control For
Availability Check
IMG Sales & Distribution Basic Functions Availability Check & TOR Availability Check
Availability Check with ATP Logic or Against Planning Determine Procedure For Each Delivery
Item Category
IMG Sales & Distribution Basic Functions Availability Check & TOR Availability Check
Availability Check with ATP Logic or Against Planning Define Default Settings
Availability check
SAP Menu Sales & Distribution Master Data Products Material Trading
Goods MM01 – Create
SAP Menu -> Logistics -> Sales & Distribution -> Sales ->Order -> VA01 -Create
To display item
availability
During order creation, availability check can be carried out by clicking on the button
as shown in the screenshot. We can also display item availability as shown in the
screen shot
To check availability
situation in other plants
IMG Sales & Distribution Basic Functions Availability Check & TOR TOR
Define Requirement Classes
India SAP CoE, Slide 31
TOR - Configuration
2. Defining the Requirements Type
•The relationship between requirement type and requirements class is many to one.
IMG Sales & Distribution Basic Functions Availability Check & TOR TOR
Define Requirement Types
India SAP CoE, Slide 32
TOR - Configuration
3. Assign Requirements Type
Assign requirement type to the relevant item category in the sales order and
the MRP type found on the material Master Record
IMG Sales & Distribution Basic Functions Availability Check & TOR TOR
Determination of requirement types using transaction
India SAP CoE, Slide 33
TOR - Configuration
4. Defining Procedure For Each Schedule Line Category
• We deactivate a setting at the schedule line level only if it is already set at the
requirements class level.
IMG Sales & Distribution Basic Functions Availability Check & TOR TOR
Define Procedure For Each Schedule Line Category
India SAP CoE, Slide 34
TOR - Configuration
5. Block quantity confirmation in delivery blocks
This enables us to unreserve or not reserve any quantity that has been confirmed for
an order for which a delivery is blocked.
We have the provision of setting this for different reasons and at different transactions
IMG Sales & Distribution Basic Functions Availability Check & TOR TOR
Block quantity confirmation in delivery blocks
IMG Sales & Distribution Basic Functions Availability Check & TOR TOR
Maintain Requirements for Transfer of Requirements
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India SAP CoE, Slide 37
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Use the Transaction Codes below to view the configuration
settings for Availability Check and Transfer of Requirements:
Create sales orders with the data provided in the exercise data slide.
Alter the controls provided in the checking group and other controls as
described in the earlier slides to see how availability check is affected.
Read the information on RLT provided in the “Help Me” section and
through configuration see its effect on material availability date.
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Additional Info
• To check the availability over follow menu path Logistics ->Materials
Management -> Environment -> Stock -> Availability Overview (CO09)
•An advantage of this availability overview will show sales order
quantity, sales order number, an line item number, and requirement
class for each schedule line for which demand is created.
• In this case, the system assumes that any quantity requested by the
customer can be procured by the material availability date and
considers the goods to be available.