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Dhruv Shah
September 5, 2013 | 16 minute read
Batch Speci�c UoM and Active

Ingredient Management
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What is Active Ingredient?
In some industry sectors, the composition of products or

components contains one or more “ACTIVE INGREDIENTS”. In addition
to active ingredients, material is made up of carrier materials like water
or other impurities. The proportion of the active ingredient in a batch is
not always fixed. These materials are handled in logistics in batch
management, using active ingredient management.
Goods movements and stock movements for these materials are carried
out in physical quantities Valuation, costing, availability checks, sales
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and planning, however, are carried out on the basis of the active
ingredient quantity.
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Where this function commonly used?
• Pharmaceutical Industry,
• Chemical Industry,
• Food Industry,
• Textile Industry,
• Steel Industry and
• Paper Industry etc.
The active ingredient management is handled through Batch Specific

UoM.
Batch Specific Unit of Measure
The batch-specific material unit is an alternative unit of measure of a

material, for which you can define the conversion ratio into the base
unit of measure on a batch-specific basis.
Materials in which the composition or attributes of the product vary to

some degree. Therefore a fixed conversion factor cannot be used to
convert quantities of these products from into various units of measure.
Instead, each batch has to be given an individual conversion factor.
Business Benefits of Batch specific UOM
• Material can be tracked though out the logistics chain in alternate

UOM which has dynamic conversion ratio. This will reduce creation of
different materials for every conversion ratio.
• Conversion ratio can be calculated automatically by inputting factors
of batch dependencies if they are known. Material valuation of batch
is possible on the basis of batch specific UOM. Material value is
determined based on the amount of active ingredient or conversion
ratio.
• Material requirement planning can be done according to variable
conversion ratio. MRP uses inventory correction factors to consider
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quantity the product may contain. Sales price is updated depending

on the material batch data.
Batch Specific UoMs consists of two components Proportion Unit and

Product Unit:
Proportion Unit
Units of measure in which you can enter proportions of the base unit of a
material. The total quantity or physical quantity may be made up of
several proportions.
Chemical consists of many ingredients. For e.g. 1 ltr of Orange Juice

contains 30 g of Vitamin C, Also this proportion is variable based on the
batch. Goods movement and stock movement is carried out in ltr of
orange juice (physical quantity) whereas valuation, planning, and
availability check is carried out for vitamin C (Active ingredient).
PROPORTION UNIT
DRUG SUBS A. Prop. Of AI in
Batch
Number Base UoM Alt UoM batch
(kg) (AI) (%)
A101 100 95 95
B101 200 198 99
C101 50 45 90
Product Unit
Units of measure that describes the total quantity of a material as an

alternative to the base unit of measure.
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also in alternate UOM. There will be certain situation where a conversion

ratio (CR) between Base UOM and alternate UOM is not fixed. Even in
this scenario it is possible to use the conversion ratio between two UOM
for all the stock monitoring and transactions.
PRODUCT UNIT
STEEL PIPES Conversion
Batch
Base UoM Alt UoM Ratio
Number
(nos) (kg) (kg/nos)
A101 10 1000 100
B101 20 1000 50
C101 15 1125 75
Master Data Set up
Classification Data
Batch Specific UoM needs the following master data set up in

Classification:
SAP Menu –> Cross-Application Components –> Classification System –>

Master Data –> CT04 – Characteristics
SAP Menu –> Cross-Application Components –> Classification System –>

Master Data –> CL02 – Classes
• In classification Master data you need to create a characteristic. This

characteristic is used to store the conversion ratio during transaction.
• In classification master data you need to create a class with class type
“023”. All the characters are assigned to this class.
• The Organizational Area S – Substance / Steel needs to be maintained
in the Batch class Basic data tab, and the class characteristic to be
used to store the conversion factor for Batch Specific UoM.

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Material Master Data
The following data needs to be maintained in the material master to

work with Batch Specific UoM:
• The batch specific UoM needs to be maintained as the alternative

UoM.
• The characteristic that is to be used to record the actual proportion
of the active ingredient on a batch specific basis needs to be
maintained in the Proportion / Prod. Unit tab of the Additional Data.
• The unit of measure use has to be selected as A – For Proportion Unit
and B – For Product Unit.
• The planned proportion of active ingredient in the total amount of
material is stored which is used in functions wherever required until
the actual conversion factor for a batch is known.

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• The indicator for “Leading Batch Specific UoM” needs to be checked

to enable the system to consider this in terms of Material
Requirements Planning (MRP) and Availability Check. This will be
further discussed in the subsequent sections.

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• The indicator for “Valuation based on Batch specific UoM” needs to be

checked to maintain a valuation price for this UoM, that acts as a
basis for valuating batches based on this proportion quantity /
product quantity.
• Valuation for the single batch is used to keep the price and value of
each individual batch in inventory management on a value basis.
Valuation for single batch is activated using the Valuation Category X.
• If price is maintained for valuation relevant characteristic in the
respective plant, the system sets the “Valuated UoM” indicator in the
Accounting 1 view of the material master record.

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Quality Management Data
• In Quality Management, the Master Inspection Characteristics need

to be linked with the Class Characteristics to copy the inspection
results from the inspection lot to the batch master record.
SAP Menu –> Quality Management –> Quality Planning –> Inspection
Planning –> Inspection Characteristic –> QS21 – Create

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Production Master Data
• In order to use the functionality of Material Quantity Calculation

(MQC) in Process orders, the proportion unit is used as the Component
UoM instead of the base unit of measure.
• The relevant master data set up required in Master Recipe for MQC is
explained in the section Batch Specific UoM in Production.
SAP Menu –> Production – Process –> Master Data –> Master Recipes –>
Recipe and Material List –> C202 – Change
Maintain Standard Price for Batch Specific UoM
• A batch can be valuated based on the basis of Batch Specific UoM, for
example using a particular active ingredient proportion. For this
valuation (standard price) needs to be maintained for the active
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ingredient on which the batch valuation depends.

• The following table explains the effects of maintaining the standard
price for the AI unit on the overall value calculation of the batch:
Batch A001 Batch B001

Physical Quantity 100 200 KG
Actual Proportion of AI 90 80 %
Proportion Price / AI 1000 1000 USD
Proportion Quantity 90 160 KAI
Proportion Value 90000 160000 USD
Value of Batch 90000 160000 USD
Price of Batch 900 800 USD / KG
SAP Menu –> Logistics –> Central functions –> Batch Management –> Batch
specific UOM –> Standard Price –> Create (MWB1)

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• When the standard price per unit of AI in material is changed, the

system automatically calculates the standard price per kg of the
material and updates it in the material master. For example if Price of
150 USD is maintained per AI, the system uses the planned conversion
factor of 97.50% stored in the material master Proportion/Prod. Unit
to calculate the standard price of 146.25 (150 *97.50%) per kg of the
material as per the following screen shot:

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Standard Cost Estimate for Header Material
• The system considers the standard price entered for the Active
Ingredient into account while calculating the total cost / value of that
component in the total cost.
• Also please note that the system uses the formula entered in MQC and
considers the quantity of FILLER1 as 71.167 (as calculated by MQC
formula) and not 90.00 (qty entered in the BOM).

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SAP Menu –> Accounting –> Controlling –> Product Cost Controlling –>
Product Cost Planning –> Material Costing –> Cost Estimate with Quantity
Structure –> CK11N – Create
Batch Specific UoM in Procurement (PO History Correction)
• The Purchase Orders can be created either in Physical UoM (Base UoM)
or in batch-specific quantities. If purchase orders are made in the
batch-specific quantities, the purchase order quantity and physical
quantity are updated in the PO history. In this way degree of
fulfillment of may be determined at any time in batch-specific
quantities.
• If actual conversion factor is not known at the time of Goods Receipt,
goods receipt is carried out according to the planned conversion
factor. If actual conversion factor is taken from the usage decision of
the QM inspection lot, the PO can be subsequently debited. This is
known as Purchase Order History Correction.

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• As shown in the above PO, the Order Unit is KG, whereas the Order
Price Unit is AI.
• Post GR against the Purchase Order we go for the QM results recording
where we will get the actual conversion factor / actual proportion of
active ingredient in the batch. As per the below screen shot the
actual conversion factor is found to be 90 % whereas the planned
conversion factor maintained in the material master is 97.50%.

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• The system proposes to correct the PO history based on the inspection

lot results using transaction MWBQ at the time of saving Usage
Decision.
• Alternatively the path for the MWBQ transaction is
SAP Menu –> Logistics –> Central functions –> Batch Management –> Batch
specific UOM –> Subsequent Adjustment f. Goods Receipt MWBQ –> Enter
with Ref. to Insp. Lot.

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On executing the transaction after entering the appropriate inspection

lot number, the system posts a material document for correcting the PO
history, i.e. to debit the PO based on the actual conversion factor
obtained through QM results recording.

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• As shown above, now as the actual proportion of the active ingredient

in the batch is 462.463 AI (513.848 * 90%), vendor would be invoiced
for the amount of 69369.450 (462.463 * 150) instead of the amount
earlier calculated on the basis of planned conversion factor of 97.50
%.
Batch Specific UoM in MRP (Inventory Correction Factor)
• Materials planning / Availability checks are usually carried out in the

physical quantities.
• When working with proportion units the system usually considers the
planned conversion factor stored in the material master. However
actual proportions of the active ingredients are usually different from
the planned proportions.
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• The following MRP list shows that system has considered the planned
conversion factor stored in the material master for requirements
planning and has generated a purchase requisition of 513.848 kg for
the dependent requirement of 501.002 AI.
• Now as the actual conversion factor is always different from the

planned conversion factor, the system takes into consideration the
actual proportion of active ingredient in the batches that are there in
stock to calculate a conversion factor that is further used in the MRP
planning instead of the planned conversion factor.
• Now consider the following example to see how the system calculates
the inventory correction factor:

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Batch
0000000731
Physical Quantity (KG) 234.959
Expected Prop. Qty 229.085 Physical Qty * Plnd conv. Factor (97.50
(AI) %)
Actual Prop. Qty (AI) 211.463 Physical Qty * Actual conv factor (90.00
%)
Variance in Prop. Qty 17.622 Expected Prop. Qty. – Actual Prop. Qty.
(AI)
Variance in Prop. Qty 7.692 (Variance in Prop. Qty / Expected Prop.
(%) Qty) * 100
Inventory Correction 92.308 100 – Variance in Prop. Qty (%)
Factor
• The system calculates inventory correction factor using the report

RVBWSCOR. To start the report, choose
Logistics –> Central Functions –> Batch Management –> Batch-specific

Units of Measure –> Determine Inventory CorrectionFactor.

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• Appropriate radio button needs to be selected to Calculate & Display

/ Calculate & Update the Inventory correction factor in the system.
Also batches with zero stock / having restricted status / having
blocked stock can be included or excluded in the calculation of
inventory correction factor.
• Also whether the list output of batches along with the correction
factor should be displayed can be controlled through appropriate
selection factors.

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• Kindly note that we have considered only one batch for the
calculation of Inventory correction factor. In actual scenario there can
be many more batches with varying content of actual proportion of
active ingredient in each batch. In such cases, the system calculates
the variance for each batch and then cumulates all variances to
calculate the Inventory Correction Factor.
Batch Specific UoM in Production (Material Quantity

Calculation)
What is Material Quantity Calculation?
Active Ingredients are also used in production as a part of BOM

component. Now since the actual proportion of the active ingredient
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order for the production process. During this process there also can be a
need to adjust with other BOM component quantities or recalculate the
Product quantity. These calculations are handled in SAP by Material
Quantity Calculation.
Material Quantity Calculation – Functions:
• MQC is used to calculate the component quantities if different active

ingredient concentrations of batches must be taken into account.
• MQC is used to calculate the product quantity, i.e. the base quantity
of the master recipe or the order quantity if it must be adjusted to
modified component quantities.
• To calculate the expected phase scrap if its needed to be displayed in
the phase data in the order and make it available for the planned /
actual evaluations carried out in LIS.
• To calculate the operation and phase quantities if they are not
identical to the product quantity. This might be done in order to take
the quantity difference caused by the scrap produced into account.
• We will take the example of pharmaceutical product / industry to
understand the concept of MQC. As shown in the above figure and in
the below table, the system needs 250.5 AI units from Component A
so that in the final composition of the Product P, the proportion of
Component A would be 50.2 %. The BOM is for tablets having batch
size 500 kg / 10, 00,000 tablets.
BOM FOR PRODUCT TABLETS (500 KG)
Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient 1. 250.5 AI

(API)
Filler 1 1. 150.5 Kg
Filler 2 1. 99.0 Kg
• Now since the proportion of the active ingredients in the raw material
batches is not fixed, we need to calculate the amount of material
that we need to take from
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business to get the desired
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amount of AI. Also in order to keep the total lot size of the finished
product constant we need to adjust the quantities of other raw
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material components in the BOM commonly known as fillers.

Following is an example of how Material quantities are calculated
manually:
BATCHES FOR API:
• Now in order to fulfill our active ingredient requirement of 250.5 AI,

we take 147 AI from batch B-990 and another 103.5 AI from batch
B-991. This works out to be 150 kg and 112.5 kg of material in
physical UoM respectively. Considering the total quantity of
component now to be 262.5, we need to decrease the quantity of one
of the filler material to maintain a constant batch size for the
finished product as 500 kg. So as per the below calculation, the
requirement quantity of Filler 2 is reduced from 99.00 kg to 87.00 kg.
Adjustment in Filler 2 Qty:-
Actual Filler 2 Qty = Total Batch Size – Filler 1 Qty – API Qty in kg
Actual Filler 2 Qty = 500-150.5-262.5 = 87.000 kg
Total Batch Size 500 kg = 262.5(API) +150.5(F1) +87.000(F2)
• Kindly note that we have taken a simple example here for our
understanding of the concept. There can be other complex scenarios
in pharmaceutical as well as other industry sectors like chemicals,
paper, textiles etc.
Master data set up for MQC

• The master data maintenance for the BOM having an active ingredient
component hastoalready
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appropriate formulae needs to be maintained in the master recipe to

allow system do the Material Quantity Calculations for Active
Ingredients / Other BOM components / Finished Product. This section
describes the master data maintenance in the master recipe.
• The above screen shot shows the formula maintained for Filler 2 BOM
component. The function CQSM (Quotient Sum of added up Weighted
batch quantities or characteristic values) has been used in the
formula of Filler 2 quantity calculation. This function is used to
calculate the total of the physical batch quantities from the active
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calculation can be used to define formulae as and when required.
Batch Determination & Material Quantity Calculation in Process Order
• As shown above, we have two batches of Active Ingredient Material

3691 – 0000000990 & 0000000991 with physical quantities of 149.500
kg and 148.500 kg respectively. But since the potency of the batches
is 98 % and 92 %, the active ingredient proportion (quantity) in them
is 146.510 AI and 136.620 AI respectively.

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• Select the marked button above in Materials screen of the process
order to execute batch determination for the selected component
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(Active Ingredient material). The system proposes the batches for the
raw material based on the Batch Search Strategy (Selection Criteria
and Sort Rule) defined in Customizing. Appropriate batches are
selected and batch determination results are copied to the process
order.
• Once the batch determination is completed, click on Material

Quantity Calculation icon to go for calculation of the component
quantities and product quantities. As per the formula entered in the
master recipe, it has recalculated the Filler 2 component quantity
from 98.50 kg to 91.167 kg. These results are copied into the process
order on clicking on the Execute
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Quantity” button in the MQC screen. The process order can then be
saved.
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SPRO –> SAP Net Weaver –> General Settings –> Check Units of
Former Member
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September 18, 2013 at 5:28 am
Hi,
Good Document. Helpful for those who donot have grip in Pharma / Active Pharma Ingredients, as you had
explained it out of SAP also.
Regards
Neelima
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Dhruv Shah | Blog Post Author

Thanks a lot Neelima.
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• Activate Batch Specific UoM
SPRO –> Logistics – General –> Batch Management –> Batch-Specific

Material Units of Measure –> Activate Batch-Specific Material Unit of
Measure
• Edit Batch Specific UoM
SPRO –> Logistics – General –> Batch Management –> Batch-Specific

Material Units of Measure –> Edit Batch-Specific Material Unit of Measure

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Subhojit Banerjee
September 18, 2013 at 1:00 pm
Neelima,
Nice document thanks for sharing.
Regards
• Calculate Proportional Factors
Subhojit
SPRO –> Logistics–General –> Batch Management –> Batch-Specific
Like 0 | Share Material Units of Measure –> Calculate Proportional Factors –> Define
Calculation of Proportion Quantity from Base Quantity
Dhruv Shah | Blog Post Author
Thanks Subhojit,
Regards,
Dhruv Shah
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Former Member
October 1, 2013 at 6:09 pm
Hi,
Thanks ......Very informative.
Regards,
Pravin Ujwalkar
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Dhruv Shah | Blog Post Author Calling all business process experts!
October 2, 2013 at 2:52 pm
Thanks Pravin Curious to know how your experiences compare with your peers'?
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Regards,
Dhruv Shah
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Allyson Meneses Morales

February 26, 2014 at 7:29 pm
Hi,
Thanks for the document, it's very helpful.
Do you know, if this functionality is applicable in production models with intermediate and end products
valued in standard price and also with execution of actual costing?
Regards,
Allyson
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Dhandapani Satheeshkumar
February 27, 2014 at 4:55 am
It is really Very nice !! the E�ort that you have put to collate the data over this "DARK BOX" is very nice. will
be helpful for many !
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Former Member
May 12, 2014 at 9:29 am
Very good e�ort, nicely structured document specifying almost everything about api concept.
thanks...
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Mohd Tallha Sonalkar

May 28, 2014 at 12:14 pm
Excellent Document !!!
Keep it up !!
Thanks for sharing , so all are bene�ted
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Mehmet Ozgur Unal

Well explained document , thanks for sharing.
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Great document.
Thanks for sharing.
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VIJAYA SIMHA CHINTARLAPALLI REDDY

May 18, 2017 at 10:22 am
Wonderful Document was very helpful was always between gram and gram ingredient !
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Former Member
May 14, 2018 at 1:11 pm
I have a question, we use it, but when we go to "create process order: material Lists", we can click the �rst
icon, the green �ag, and the all components automatically are selected and batch de�ned. Then the full�ll is
not recalculated when we click the Material Quantity Calculation icon.
I am thinking that we have to do something in the recipe in order to the green �ag can't be used at create
process order material list. And all the AI batches have to be de�ned one to one, and the full�ll component
will be calculated before the batch will be asigned.
Maybe this is the solution?
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Sachin Ghogale
December 6, 2018 at 1:46 pm
Hi Dhruv,
Its very informative article. Many thanks for this.
I have a question here.
I understand the actual proportions of active ingredients are entered in result recording in QA32.
But these values (entered) are transferred to batch characteristics?
What is the mechanism for that? Calling all business process experts!

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Thank for sharing. This document is so bene�ted. Do you know which the function is in retail same this?
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January 31, 2020 at 6:40 am
Thanks for posting with detailed explanation.
I have a query. How to achieve Inventory Correction Factor determination based on proportion unit slabs or
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February 11, 2021 at 1:12 am
Just a quick one, but I think you may have chosen the wrong batch for the example - you choose Batch
9 8 8 w i t h 9 8 % p o t e n c y in the Process Order but two batches of Active Ingredient Material 3691 –
0000000990 (98%) & 0000000991(92%) in your calculation example above. This may have been
intended ?
Also how do you pull the 100% as in your example. You will see I have tried below but the 100% does not
come through?

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Batch Speci�c UoM and Active

What is Active Ingredient?

In some industry sectors, the composition of products or

Where this function commonly used?

• Steel Industry and

• Paper Industry etc.

The active ingredient management is handled through Batch Specific

Batch Specific Unit of Measure

The batch-specific material unit is an alternative unit of measure of a

Materials in which the composition or attributes of the product vary to

Business Benefits of Batch specific UOM

• Material can be tracked though out the logistics chain in alternate

quantity the product may contain. Sales price is updated depending

Batch Specific UoMs consists of two components Proportion Unit and

Chemical consists of many ingredients. For e.g. 1 ltr of Orange Juice

Units of measure that describes the total quantity of a material as an

For example, a piece in a particular batch weighs 10 kilograms in total

also in alternate UOM. There will be certain situation where a conversion

Master Data Set up

Batch Specific UoM needs the following master data set up in

SAP Menu –> Cross-Application Components –> Classification System –>

SAP Menu –> Cross-Application Components –> Classification System –>

• In classification Master data you need to create a characteristic. This

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Material Master Data

The following data needs to be maintained in the material master to

• The batch specific UoM needs to be maintained as the alternative

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• The indicator for “Leading Batch Specific UoM” needs to be checked

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• The indicator for “Valuation based on Batch specific UoM” needs to be

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Quality Management Data

• In Quality Management, the Master Inspection Characteristics need

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Production Master Data

• In order to use the functionality of Material Quantity Calculation

Maintain Standard Price for Batch Specific UoM

ingredient on which the batch valuation depends.

Batch A001 Batch B001

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• When the standard price per unit of AI in material is changed, the

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Standard Cost Estimate for Header Material

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Batch Specific UoM in Procurement (PO History Correction)

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• The system proposes to correct the PO history based on the inspection

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On executing the transaction after entering the appropriate inspection

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