For anyone that’s been reading, you’ll know that I started a tool that would allow you to do a material movement and create the transfer order in a single step. Well, I’m excited because last night, I put the finishing touches on that tool. I still need to do some full scale testing and create the documentation for it, but round one is done. It uses the idea of transaction MIGO and incorporates the WM pieces into it.
Some of the lessons I learned while building this, don’t clone transactions, and even be careful cloning screens. I ran into this when I began to set up the serial number entry screen. At first, I started by just copying the screen from MB1B. Nice and easy, right? not so much. I quickly came to the same realization as I did when I copied the MB1B transaction completely. It works, but it opens the door to a lot of potential headaches. So, like the main transaction, I looked at what was happening in MB1B, and took the important pieces. Now there may still be things that will need to be added into future releases. For example, at this time I’m not covering the user exits and enhancement points that the standard material movement have built into them. This may be a requirement for some of my future customers, and if so, at that time I’ll work on building those into my solution. IN the meantime, the functionality works, and I’ve created a pretty slick tool.
Finally, big thanks go out to Jeff Bass, without whom none of this would’ve been possible. Jeff is quite possibly the best WM teacher out there. Certainly the best I’ve ever met. I knew very little about WM before sitting down with Jeff for an hour. After that, I have a very solid grasp of how it works (and at least enough to set up a simple WM configuration). So thanks Jeff… couldn’t have done it without you…
as always, I keep learning the hard way so you don’t have to.
As always, thanks for reading and don't forget to check out our SAP Service Management Products at my other company JaveLLin Solutions,Mike