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3736823 - No Automatic Alert or Email for When Safety Stock Level Breach

Symptom

  • No alert or email is triggered when stock falls below Safety Stock.
  • No option available to create a workflow or task for Safety Stock breach.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Supply Planning work center.
  2. Choose Products view.
  3. Search with the relevant Product and Site ID.
  4. Choose Open.

  1. Go to Application and User Management work center.
  2. Choose Workflow Rules view.
  3. Choose New and review available options.
  4. No option available for Safety Stock alert or task creation.

Cause

  • No standard task or notification exists for Safety Stock breach.
  • Workflow Rules do not support this scenario.

Resolution

  • This is standard system behavior.
  • Automatic alert or email for Safety Stock is not supported.
  • Safety Stock is monitored only through Supply Planning.

See Also

KBA: KB0928058 Workflow Rule Creation for Project Stock Orders Not Available 

Keywords

safety stock, alert, email notification, exception list, supply planning, workflow rules, notification not available, stock below safety stock, threshold breach, bydesign, sdm, planning exceptions, alerts unsupported, workflow rule creation, inventory monitoring , KBA , AP-SDM , Supply and Demand Matching , SRD-CC-BTM , Business Task Management , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions