EWM Batch Determination

[former_member720907]

Hello,

I am working with ECC 6.0 release 618 and a decentralized EWM S/4 1909 system. Regarding outbound deliveries, I would like to keep batch determination within ECC and avoid sending batch attributes to EWM. I have not activated the ECC warehouse customizing related to replicating batch attributes to EWM; however, batch attributes continue to be distributed to EWM within my outbound deliveries and subsequently fail since the batch classification/characteristics data are not maintained in EWM.

Is there a standard approach to preventing the distribution of batch attributes to EWM? I see BADI VB_BD_SELECTION_CRITERIA and BADI /SPE/ES_BADI_BATCH_DETERM available that could potentially help in meeting my requirement. Is custom code the only option at this point? After analyzing program SAPLV50K in ECC, it appears switch LE_SFWS_SC3 is activated in my ECC system and there is no getting around the distribution of batch attributes to EWM.

Thanks,

Andy

[JuergenPitz]

Hi,

"Regarding outbound deliveries, I would like to keep batch determination within ECC and avoid sending batch attributes to EWM"
The behavior of the automatic batch determination in outbound deliveries in ECC is controlled by one flag only. And that is the flag "Batch determination in EWM by batch attributes" (or something similar) in the one customizing setting where you activate a warehouse number as EWM warehouse. This effects only the automatic batch determination. If the flag is set, then no batch is assigned in the ECC delivery and the required batch criteria are send in the delivery to EWM. If the flag is not set, through the automatic batch determination a batch is assigned in the ECC delivery and this is send as batch to be picked. That's it, there is no other setting. So how is this flag set?

"subsequently fail since the batch classification/characteristics data are not maintained in EWM."

Even if the batch determination itself is done in ECC, I am not sure if it is working if batch classification is no distributed.

Brgds

Juergen

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[former_member720907]

Juergen,

As I mentioned, the flag is NOT checked. I want ECC to drive the batch determination and avoid any batch determination being conducted within the EWM outbound delivery. I see no need to distribute ECC batch determination classes and characteristics to EWM if ultimately EWM will be picking against the batch passed from ECC. In the exceptional case that a batch is not determined in the ECC delivery and no batch is passed to EWM, I would prefer that batch determination be conducted at the time a warehouse task is generated using FEFO. Bringing the batch det. class/chars into EWM is additional overhead that is not required seeing as ECC is my system of record.

Bottom line requirement - I want to avoid any batch determination being conducted in the EWM outbound delivery (this is already taken care of in ECC), therefore I don't want EWM attempting to validate the class/chars received on the outbound delivery since I have no intention of storing the respective class/chars. both in ECC and EWM.

Andy

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[former_member720907]

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[JuergenPitz]

Hi,

ok, I haven't seen anywhere where you write that the flag is not checked (or that is what you mean with "I have not activated the ECC warehouse customizing related to replicating batch attributes to EWM"), but what I understand now is that you do have a batch determination in ECC, but for the EWM PDO not only the batch, but also the batch criteria is send, and that creates an error as your EWM does not no the batch info.

Can't help you there, I guess it is how you wrote, there is no way around it. Or you change the delivery replication which is being sent from ERP to EWM.

Brgds

Juergen