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3346164 - How Does FIFO Strategy Work

Symptom

You want to know how FIFO strategy works. 

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

NA

Resolution

As per FIFO rule, system sorts the oldest stock according to the identified stock expiration date, identified stock production date and last put away date. The exact order in which the sorting happens once the system retrieves all available inventories for the relevant product is as follows.

  • The stock is sorted based on put away date first, this helps with getting FIFO information for all the stocks which does not have iStock.
  • Stock with iStock are sorted additionally based on Expiration Date and/or Production Date. 

Keywords

FIFO, FIFO not working, Material Flow Rules, SDD rules, Source and Destination Determination Rules, ByDesign SDD, ByD Material Flow Rules, ByD FIFO, ByDesign FIFO , KBA , AP-LAS-SDD , Logistics Source and Destination Determination Rule , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions