IBP: planning considering shelf-life

[VittorioCotroni]

Dear SAP IBP gurus,

we have a customer requesting to perform their planning in IBP keeping into consideration shelf-life. This requirement is quite common in the pharma, chemical and food & beverage industry, and I was wondering if any of you has already found himself with the challenge to implement such a requirement.

Making the requirement short: the customer wants to be able to identify when a certain stock will expire or will have a shelf-life lower than a certain threshold, as in this cases, the product could be not sellable (or sellable only in specific markets), bringing to a depreciation of its value. Products are produced and packed in batches in Production plants, moved to distribution centers and from there delivered to the customers.

Do you have any suggestion on how to implement the above requirement?

Many thanks for your support,

Vittorio Cotroni

[lingaiahvanam · Accepted solution]

Hi Vittorio,

As per Harshil, Self life planning is not yet available in SAP IBP and it is in Road map.

But you can achieve this trough custom logic (L Code) with the help of SAP IBP team.

Step 1: Maintain the shelf life attribute as a key figure in master data.

Step 2: Write the logic consider the existing inventory and shelf life expiration date.

Step 3: Write the logic maintain the threshold value considering the shelf life expiration date.

If you could not build this logic, create OSS message to SAP explaining the scenario in detailed.

Best Regards,

Lingaiah