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What is a batch no. of a material and where can we mention batch no for material?
Can we maintain batch no in mm01 Tcode while creating material?
In simple terms SAP Batch Handling means an additional keys fields for users to identify the
same materials.
The structure of the material master record allows you to manage stocks of a material by
value at plant level or company-code level and by quantity down to storage-location level.
Under certain conditions, you may need to make further subdivisions for a material and
manage batches.
Certain materials’ features cannot always be guaranteed to be exactly alike in production. For
example, you cannot guarantee that a certain color will always have the same shade. Minor
differences between production lots cannot be avoided. You need to be able to uniquely
identify the individual production lots of the same material and manage them separately in
inventory.
Materials that require such precise identification, for example pharmaceutical products, are
identified and managed in stock not only according to material number, but also according to
batch number.
With batch handling, you can manage not only production lots from in-house production, but
also production lots from vendors as separate entities.
In the standard R/3 System, numbers are assigned to the individual materials at plant level.
- General data on the batch (for example, shelf life expiry date, date of the last goods
receipt), which is defined in the master batch. The master batch applies to all storage
locations in which the batch is located. No stocks are managed at this level.
- Stock data, which is managed separately for every storage location in which the batch is
located.
For example, if the batch C1 of a material is spread across two different storage locations, the
stock quantity is tracked for each storage location.
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