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3539214 - Extended Processing Time for Issuing Goods in SAP Business ByDesign

Symptom

  • Outbound delivery processing in SAP Business ByDesign is taking longer than usual, exceeding 2 minutes for deliveries with 3-4 line items.
  • This issue is impacting operational efficiency and user productivity, causing delays in fulfilling customer orders.

Environment

Outbound Delivery Request

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Navigate to the Outbound Logistics work center.
  2. Proceed to the Delivery Proposal view.
  3. Search the relevant  delivery proposal with id
  4. Select it and choose the Post Goods Issue button.
  5. The system takes more than one minute to display the screen.

Cause

  • The absence of material flow rules in the location.
  • In the absence of material flow rules, the system uses the default picking strategy which is Minimum Movements.
  • The strategy considers all bins that contain the requested material, and scans the entire inventory to proposes a source randomly.
  • if the stock overview has too many line items of a product(s) system will have to scan all the line items to identify a source. 

Resolution

  • Maintaining the material flow rules will help eliminate this issue.

See Also

Keywords

SAP Business ByDesign, Outbound Delivery, Processing Time, Post Goods Issue, PGI, Material Flow Rules, Operational Efficiency, User Productivity, Customer Orders. , KBA , AP-ODP-ODR , Outbound Delivery Request , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions