Why the coverage rate is lower than expected ?
The physical inventory is not finished
There are 7 steps in a physical inventory in MM when there is no variance and 10 spteps when a recount is needed
Physical inventory creation | MI31 | |
| Inventory count from printing | MI21 | |
| Physical stock calculation | Out of RCS | |
Inventory count entry | MI04 | counted |
| Inventory count differences printing | MI20 | |
| Inventory count differences validation | MI07 | validated |
Results display | MB03 | |
| Inventory recount if needed | MI11 | |
| Inventory recount entry | MI04 | counted |
| Inventory recount differences validation | MI07 | validated |
A physical inventory is taken into account in the BW query when the status is validated (step 6 & 10)
There is no more quantity of some materials that were in the inventory at last year end
The reference used by the calculation of the coverage rate is the inventory at the end of the previous year.
It is recommended to count all inventories even if the quantity is equal to zero and follow this procedure :
- Create the inventory document with MI13 and select "only materials with zero stock". If necessary you can change in the control section to the relevant "MA. no. items/doc"
- In MI04 (inventory count) click on "set zero count" ==> All item ZC box will be checked
- Validate with MI07
- Create a new inventory document with MI31 and select materials "only materials w/o zero stock" and complete the procedure
Inventory flag is updated in BW on saturday
The query reports the coverage rate as of last friday night.
Either you run the query as previously explained or you can receive automatically a monthly broadcast.
Template of the broadcast
