Batch Management

Batch Management
Purpose
In various industries – particularly the process industry – you have to work with homogenous partial quantities of a material or product throughout the logistics quantity and value chain.
There are various reasons for this:
• Legal requirements (for example, the guidelines set out by GMP(Good Manufacturing Practice) or regulations on hazardous material
• Defect tracing, callback activities, and regression requirement
• The need for differentiated quantity-and value-based Inventory Management (for example,due to heterogeneous yield/result qualities or varying constituents in Production.
• Differences in usage and the monitoring thereof in materials planning in SD and Production.
• Production or procedural requirements (for example, settlement of material quantities on the
basis of different batch specifications).
Integration
Batch Management is integrated in all applications of the R/3 System. It supports the
management and processing of batches in all of a company’s business processes.
Features
• Batch number assignment
You use this function to assign a batch with a number that uniquely identifies it.
• Batch specifications
You use this function to describe each batch uniquely using characteristics and characteristic values. You specify the permitted value range in the allocated material master record.
• Batch status management
You use this function to indicate whether a batch is usable or unusable. You set this status:
– Manually in the batch master record or at goods receipt
– Automatically in the usage decision in quality management
• Batch determination
With this function, you can use various criteria to search for batches that are in stock, for example:
– when posting goods issues
– when combining suitable material components for production orders and process orders
– when creating a delivery according to particular customer requirements
• Batch where-used list
– The batch record contains all quality-relevant planned and actual data for the
production of a batch and complies with the GMP guidelines (Good Manufacturing Practices) for the pharmaceutical industry and food industry.
– The path of the batch from Procurement to delivery to your customer is shown in the batch where-used list.

• Active ingredient management
You use this function to administrate and process materials with active ingredients that are to be handled in batches.