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IT Application Tools in Business - SAP

week 1- Final

Inventory Management
By Batches
Batches are used to track groups of items with characteristics in common. These characteristics might be attributes you define such as a
shade of color, granularity or PH balance. The characteristics could be dates, such as expiration dates, manufacturing date, or the date the items
were received into inventory.
Example:

Add the following item on the Item Master Data:

Item No. Description Item Group Price Managed by

BN1000 Mousepad Accessories 50 Batches

OEC ordered and received 100 items of BN1000 from Acme Associates. Items will be divided into 10 batches.

Batch number: Box-0001

Batch Attribute 1: OEC-MP-00001

OEC sold 27 items of BN1000 to Norm Thompson, via FIFO.

Go to (1) Inventory → (2) Item Master Data. Switch to Add mode (Ctrl + A).

3. Input the information above regarding the


4. On the general tab, there is a Manage Item By drop down list, select ‘Batches’. Management Method, ‘On every
transaction’.
5. Click Inventory Data tab
6. Input the information according the warehouse assigned to your

Warehouse Code: 01

Warehouse Name: General Warehouse

7. Click Add.
The whole Procurement and Sales Process should still be done completely. But for example purposes and to address this topic directly, we will only use Goods
Receipt PO and Delivery.

Go to (8) Purchasing A/P → (9) Goods Receipt PO

10. Input the following information:

Vendor: V10000 Acme Associates

11. Item No: BN1000

Quantity: 100

12. Click Click Yes, if prompted the message “You cannot change this document after you have added it”.

13. Batches Set-up window will appear. Click the ‘You can also’ button on the lower right corner of the window, and select automatic creation.

14. Automatic Batch Creation window will appear. Set the number of batchers to

15. Click this button beside the Batch

16. Automatic String Creation window will appear. Input the following:

# String Type Operation


1 Box- String No Operation

2 0001 Number Increase

17. Click Ok.

18. On the Automatic Batch Creation window, click this button beside the Batch Attribute 1 field.

19. Automatic String Creation window will appear. Input the following:

# String Type Operation

1 OEC-MP- String No Operation

2 0001 Number Increase

20. Click OK.

21.On the Automatic Batch Creation window, click Create.

22. Batchers for all 100 items should be

23. Click Update

24. On the Goods Receipt PO window. Click Add.

Go to (25) Sales A/R → (26) Delivery

27. Input the following information:

Customer: C20000 Norm Thompson

28. Item No: BN100


Quantity: 27

29. Click Click Yes, if prompted the message “You cannot change this document after you have added it”.

30. Batch Number Selection window will Click Auto Select. 5 items will automatically selected on a First-In First-Out basis.

31. Click Update. Click OK.

32. On the Delivery window, click Add.

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