Availability Check in Delivery

Sales & Distribution

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 Topics

1. Introduction

2. Availability control inShipping

3. Prerequisites

4. Scope of Check

5. Process Flow
 Introduction
 Availability check in Delivery is initiated during creation
and check is done for the picking date.
 The check is carried out on the same criteria as in Sales
order processing.
 Availability check at delivery level is carried out for
following reasons

Check may not have done for items at order level and hence
needs to be done at delivery stage.

Although check may have been carried out in order the
availability situation may have changed due to various unknown
reason.

Dynamic check at this stage would ensure correct status in
terms of availability so that further actions after delivery i.e.
Picking, Packing etc are not affected.
 Availability Control in
Shipping
 Control elements for availability are same as in sales
documents

Checking Group
Checking group specifies in combination with checking rule the
scope of availability check. It is maintained in material master in
Plant view and copied on to sales documents.
 Checking Rule
A Checking rule is assigned to each transaction and in
combination with checking group define what movements are
considered for availability check. These are predefined in system
 Delivery Item category
Additional check exists at delivery item category level to control
if availability should be checked or not.
 Prerequisites

 Following prerequisites need to be fulfilled for availability

check to take place

Control elements in Sales and Distribution are maintained in
customizing and assigned.
 Availability check switched on at requirement class and delivery
item category level.
 Plant should be defined at document item level.
 Checking group should be maintained in material master on
Sales/plant screen in Availability check field.
 Scope of Check

 Elements that can be included in availability check are


Stock
 Safety Stock
 Stock in Transfer
 Quality Inspection stock
 Blocked Stock
 Inward/Outward movement of goods
 Purchase orders and requisitions
 Planned orders and Production orders
 Reservations
 Dependent requirements
 Sales and Delivery requirements
 The elements that need to be included depend on the
scenario for which availability check is being set.
 Process Flow

 System determines date for availability check on basis of

earliest material availability date of all schedule lines in
delivery.
 If there is insufficient stock following is system behavior

Sufficient quantity of material not available by material
availability date, a delivery quantity ‘0’ is entered in delivery. If
item category of delivery permits ‘0’ quantity then it would be
included else item would not be allowed in delivery.
 Quantity available of material is lower than order quantity,
system would enter available quantity as delivered quantity and
order would get updated accordingly. If partial delivery is not
allowed, this would be noted in delivery creation log.