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I did a post on this in the past, but I learned the hard way that I didn’t include enough details to easily replicate my solution.  So I’m going to cover it again.  Here is the concept.  If you have a sales order with a sales bom, you may want to push a single line item  from the sales BOM to a return order for example.  You don’t want to include all the other pieces, and you want to maintain the reference to original sales order line.

You will get the the error V2 104 – Item xxxxxx is a component of a bill of material so cannot be copied.

Well, the trick to this is maintained at the copy control in the header section.

You will need to create a new requirement (using VOFM, menu:  data Transfer -> Orders.

I created a new requirement, 951 in this example and I copied all the code from 051.

At the bottom of the new requirement, add the following code:

LOOP AT CVBAP.
IF CVBAP–STLNR NE SPACE.
CLEAR: CVBAP–UEPOS,
CVBAP–STLNR,
CVBAP–STLTY,
CVBAP–STLKN,
CVBAP–STPOZ.
MODIFY CVBAP.
ENDIF.
ENDLOOP.

What this will do is ignore if anything is part of a BOM or not.  This requirement shouldn’t apply to everything, so that’s why you will need a new one to be used for return orders (and in my case, service contracts).

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I have to confess, I’m pretty excited about this.  After hearing multiple clients say they needed to do territory management, but didn’t want to do CRM, I came up with an idea.  After a few weeks of fine tuning and screen design, we came up with a pretty slick design.

We wanted this to be as functional and open as we could.  So we built it into a folder structure.  Each level allows you to select one “Filter by”, which is your selection condition.  For Example, Table !001 above has entries for each different notification type.  Under that, we have 3 different tables (orders specifically, so you can choose what will be used first, second, last, etc).

A005 searching by specific materials.  If nothing is found, it moves to A006 which looks at specific sales orgs, and if nothing is found there it moves to A007 which looks at Ship to party zip codes.

You can build the structure with as few or as many tables as you want.  We have included one structure for service notifications, and another for sales orders.  This allows you to use the same tool to determine sales reps or service technicians and still maintain unique criteria for each.  All entries are controlled by a validity date, as well as change tracking.

As an added bonus, this is a built in option withing Renovation.  If you create or change a notification, you can have the technician determined automatically.

If you think this is something your organization could benefit from, please reach out.  I’d love the chance to demo it to you.

Thanks for reading,

I recently wanted to add an external number range for the master warranty.  I struggled a bit because I forgot to look out for overlapping number ranges, but I’ll talk about that in a bit.  First, how to add a new number range (keep in mind, you screens may look slightly different depending on your version of ECC).

First, go to transaction BG00 (you can also get here in SPRO)

Press Edit Groups

Once in here either press the Create button (shown in newer version) or using the menu:  Interval -> Maintain

Add a new interval.

Enter in the start and end (be sure to press external if it isn’t defaulted).

A side note.  I kept trying to add AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA to ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Interestingly enough, this conflicts.  If you simply select A as your from and ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ as your to, everything will be happy.

thanks for reading,

I’ve had several asks in the past few months about doing territory management within ECC (NOT CRM).  I’ve done some digging and hunted around on the web, and aside and haven’t seen anything out there.  Here’s the concept.  A company has a group of technicians that may be region specific, some are product specific and others are assigned directly to some major customers.  The idea is that they need a flexible solution to be able to assign a technician to a notification, a sales order or a service order based on specific criteria.

Well, sitting around and doing some documentation today and an idea hit me.  I could build a territory management solution in ECC pretty easily.  But I wanted to put myself in check first.  First, is anyone even interested.  I think the answer is yes, as i have had 2 clients this past year both looking for something similar.  The other question is there already a nice solution out there?  I didn’t find one, but that’s where I thought I’d throw this out to the crowd.  Would anyone buy a territory management solution in ECC?  or is it easy enough to develop in-house.  I always like to think I have these revolutionary ideas…  but perhaps this would be a waste of time.

I’d love to hear your thoughts,
thanks for reading,