Consuming Products with Advanced Production Integration

For components that have not been marked for backflush, the consumption posting is triggered through the production material request (PMR). Consumption can be posted in a desktop transaction or using RF; a reversal of the consumption posting is also possible. You can post consumption for the entire quantity of the product at once, or you can post consumption for partial quantities of the product at intervals. You also can post consumption for a greater quantity of a product than was planned in the PMR. For consumption of partial quantities, you can post the consumption based on the quantity that has been consumed or the quantity that remains.

The consumption posting in EWM directly creates material documents in ERP. They can be found under the list of documented goods movements from the manufacturing order.

When you work with a batch managed product and PMRs, you have the following options for handling the batch:

• You do not enter any batch information in the manufacturing order.

• You enter batch selection criteria in the manufacturing order in SAP ERP.

• You enter the batch number in the manufacturing order in SAP ERP, either manually or through batch determination in SAP ERP.

SAP EWM uses the batch or the batch selection criteria to ensure that you use a batch that fulfills the requirements transferred from SAP ERP.

If a batch is already in the manufacturing order, you can display the batch data in SAP EWM, but you cannot change it.

For PMRs that contain batches or batch selection criteria, the system uses the staging method single-order staging only, to ensure that each manufacturing order gets a batch that fits its requirements.

When creating a warehouse task for the PMR that contains batch information, SAP EWM takes into account only the batches that are allowed for the PMR item in the source stock determination, as follows:

• If the PMR item does not contain any batch information, the system uses any batch.

• If the PMR item contains batch selection criteria, the system uses stock from batches that fit the batch selection criteria only.

• If the PMR item contains the batch number, the system only uses stock from this batch.