3230102 - Inventory In Logistics Area Which Has Logistics Use "Not Relevant for Planning" Is Still Considered Available in Production

A logistics area has been maintained with logistics use "Not Relevant for Planning", but in the Stock and Demand View of a production order, you find that the inventory in this logistics area is still considered available as input product.

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1. Production Control - Production Orders
2. Search ABC (ABC represents the production order ID), click Edit
3. Click button Stock and Demand Overview
4. In the pop-up window, for input product XYZ (XYZ represents the product ID), there is a positive on hand stock and free stock.
5. In Stock Overview, search product XYZ, there is only one on-hand stock in logistics area LA_1 (LA_1 represents the logistics area ID).
6. Open logistics area LA_1, it has logistics use "Not Relevant for Planning".

Though logistics area LA_1 has been maintained with logistics use "Not Relevant for Planning", its on-hand stock can still be used as input product in production, this is because a company might still be interested to use remaining stock of such logistics area for sales or production.

System standard behavior

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