SAP Tips and Tricks

This blog post might help you to solve the problem with these messages. HUGENERAL 017 Handling unit &1 has the status "goods issue posted", cannot be changed HUFUNCTIONS 251 No posting-relevant material items could be found Many times it happens that the standard functionality provided by SAP is not sufficient. IN HU if customisations have been done, it is possible that, you end up with some data inconsistancy. The worst part about this is that not much is available in SAP or even internet. I learnt these hard way. The solution might look very simple, but it has consumed quite a lot of tense days. This could be due to some MDE customisations also. The above messages might appear if you are trying to transfer HU from blocked to unrestricted or vice versa using VLMOVE. Or if you are trying to pick a HU from stock. What happened in my case is that the inventory stock was transferred to Blocked stock, but the HU was not updated. So, the following standard transactions gives

This article explains the step by step, a simple and effective trick to do mass updates/creations on SAP configurations. In many cases this can potentially save couple of days. Conceptually it is very simple. Many IT professionals know how to use mail merge. For an SAP consultant, BDC is not a news. This will explain the steps to create a BDC session using recording and mail merge. 1. Prepare the data First step is to prepare your data. It is easy to explain using an example. We will use IMG configuration for MRP Controller. We will use Name and telephone field of the MRP controller. The data to be created will be created as an excel sheet. Let us save this file as mrpc.xls Next step is to create the recording. Before proceeding, decide your naming conventions. This will help you in troubleshooting and analysis. We will be creating 3 files, The basic recording as a text file The mail merge document as a word document Finally the merged bdc session as a text file. I use

Move the quantity from consignment to own stock using VLMOVE. It is a bit tricky In Handling unit tab select 309 Transfer material to material . Enter plant, storage location and handling unit number. Press enter, the details are copied to the material tab. Navigate to the materials tab. Change movement type to 411 and enter vendor number. Click create delivery button, a delivery is created. Click on change delivery and pick and confirm pick order. Click post goods issue.