MMBE – understanding stock status versus batch status

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Stock status

A quantity of a given material at a Plant can exist in one of three basic stock statuses:

1. Unrestricted
2. Quality Inspection (QI)
3. Blocked

For the below explanation this is called ‘stock status’.

Batch status

When you activate batch management, this introduces a complication, a batch of a given material may have the status Unrestricted or Restricted, which is independent of the stock status.

This is the batch status.

Representation in MMBE

This can cause confusion for people when viewing stock using transaction MMBE.  If you know the following, then it will help:

Stock status	Batch status	MMBE column displayed in	Batch/quantity in example
Unrestricted	Unrestricted	Unrestricted use	NICK1
Unrestricted	Restricted	Restricted use	NICK2
QI	Unrestricted	Qual. inspection	NICK3
QI	Restricted	Qual. inspection
Blocked	Unrestricted	Blocked	NICK4
Blocked	Restricted	Blocked

For a material quantity with unrestricted stock status, the batch status will dictate which column the batch quantity is shown in (see NICK1 versus NICK2)

For a material quantity with the stock status QI or Blocked, the batch status does not effect which column the quantity is shown in.  The material batch is always shown in the appropriate stock status column.

If you want to know the batch status of material with a stock status of QI or Blocked:

Select the batch.

Select  Extras \ Display Batch from the menu bar.

And view the Batch status section of the Basic Data 1 tab.

Note backwards navigation is available and can be used to return to the MMBE display via the Back button.