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Creation of alternative material in production

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Dear folks,

I have following requirements:

Customer orders Material A and for some reason (e.g. low stocks), the mrp controller decides to produce an alternative material (B) which is

equal to Material A. This also counts for planned independent requirements.

How can I maintain this in SAP? I tried to use alternative item group in the BOM, but this does not solve my requirement, since this is just a function to assign an alternative BOM position for Material A. I really need to assign an alternative material on header level.

The assignment has to take place before actual production. We cannot use Material Determination (SD) - Transaction VB11.

Any ideas? Is this something we have to develop?

Kind regards,

Peter

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Former Member
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Hi Peter,

your requirement is not totally clear to me.

When material B is produced instead will you change the material in the sales order manually?

Is this about consumption of planned indepednent requirements?

Please help me to understand.

Cheers,

Uli     

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Hi Uli,

thanks for your reply. It is definitely about consumption of independent requirements. We do not have sales orders, we only have SD-scheduling agreement (SD-Lieferplan) - this is also affected.

Peter

Former Member
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could you please post a screenshot of md04 for material  a and b and what you expect the system to do    

Anupam1143
Active Contributor
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Hi Peter,

Check these links for discontinuation parts:

Discontinued Parts - Material Requirements Planning (PP-MRP) - SAP Library

Regards,

Anupam Sharma