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3263639 - Confirmed Quantities Display Three Decimal Places in Custom Unit of Measure

Symptom

During check Available-To-Promise (ATP), you find the confirmed quantity still shows 3 decimals for custom Unit of Measure(UoM), even if it is configured as zero.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Outbound Logistics Control Work Center.
  2. Navigate to Customer Demand View.
  3. Select the Customer Demand XXX.
  4. Navigate to Schedule Lines Sub-tab, you will note that the confirmed quantity shows 3 decimals with the custom UoM you created.

Cause

Open the master data of the confirmed product, you would find following information.

  • A Quantity Conversion between a standard UoM and the custom UoM.
  • Base/ Inventory Valuation UoM is the standard UoM.
  • Sales UoM is the custom one.

The confirmed quantity in some cases to have more than 3 decimal places, the issue is caused by a rounding to 3 decimal places during ATP checking.

As the consequence, the system creates a warehouse task with an additional line item for this product and the open quantity is the excess quantity caused by the rounding.

This is a known limitation in the live cache (planning and ATP).

Resolution

Please reject the redundancy decimals during confirming task as a workaround.

See Also

2828720 - Planning Does not Allow More Than Three Decimal Places

Keywords

UoM; Three Decimals; Customer Demand; ATP. , KBA , AP-CR-CR , Customer Requirement , Product Enhancement

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions