Product ID / Material in Shopping Cart - Meaning of Availability Check

[Former Member]

Deaer Experts,

could you please help me understand the SRM standard behaviour (7.0, CS) with respect to the availability check in the shopping cart.

I am now starting to use the EBP for internal goods also. When a material is put into the shopping cart, the "Availability" detail tab occures.

From my high level understanding, in that detail view we receive information with respect to the R/3 stock of this material. But what exactly does it mean, when for example in the shopping cart the message gets displaye, that the required quantity is available; or partially available; or not avail at all?

Does the system assume, that the requirement that is stated in the shopping cart, should be satisfied from already existing stock in R/3?

In the example that confuses me a bit, it is the case that there are 3 pieces on stock in R/3. And when I say in my shopping cart that i want to have 4 pieces, than after the availability check in the shopping cart i am told that there are only 3 pieces available. When i than assign the line, the quantity of the shopping cart position automatically reduces from 4 to 3.

But what if i still want to have 4 pieces? Is the availability check and/or the acceptance of the pieces that are only available mandetory?

Thank you very much for your help.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Dear Dima,

Availability check in shopping cart is used for procurement of internal goods. Based on the plants assigned in the extended attributes of the org structure for the user, the system displays the available stocks in those plants.

However, SAP SRM 7 does not allow partial fulfillment of requirement through internal stocks. Based on your configuration of follow-on document for your shopping cart and complete availability of required quatitiy, the system will create a reservation document in the backend.

Here, if your requirement is 4 ea and available quantity in the plant is 3 Ea, the system will not create a reservation for partial available quantitiy.

I hope, it helps you.

Thanks and regards,

Ranjan

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Ranjan,

Thank you very much for helping me to understand the link between the procurement of internal materials in EBP and the u201CInternal Procurement Typeu201D customizing as part of the customizing of the Backend objects.

During testing I have observed that I receive the local error in SRM u201CError creating follow on documentu201D, when I order and approve a shopping cart, where the quantity of the ordered internal material is completely available in the backend.

Is the error possibly connected with my u201CInternal Procurement Typeu201D-setting, being u201CAlways external procurementu201D?

Please allow me an additional question

What is the influence of a purchasing info record that exists in R/3, in the EBP shopping cart?

What I have observed is that even though for the internal material, that I am ordering in the shopping cart, a purchasing info record exists, still neither the price nor the vendor from that info record are taken into account within the shopping cart. Is it standard behavior?

Great Thanks.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Dima,

That should not be a problem. You can go for external procurement (if you wish) for requirements of internal goods generated out of shopping cart. Then, the system will create either PR or PO depending on completeness of the shopping cart.

You can use R/3 purchasing info record as a possible source of supply for classic scenario.

The system then should pick the price and vendor from the shopping cart.

Thanks and regards,

Ranjan

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks again for the clarification Ranjan.

The reason why i was receiving my local erro was an unclean config. I had forgotten to maintain the settings in the "Define objects in Backend" area.

After maintaing the respective purchasing group, the creation of my backend document works for external procurement.