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This tutorial is part of our SAP MM course and you will learn how to use SAP MMBE transaction for displaying stock overview. SAP MMBE (Stock Overview) transaction is part of SAP inventory management. So, to better understand what stock overview transaction entails, it is essential to understand the importance of an effective inventory management for companies.
SAP ERP with its Materials Management module has implemented a set of processes supported by SAP inventory management functionality for all types of stock movements within a plant. As inventory is a matter of quantity and value in a plant, stock movements are entered in real time. For this purpose, several functions and reports are provided by SAP inventory management to give detailed information about all goods and their stock data. SAP MMBE (Stock overview) transaction is one of these tools that can be considered as a display at any given moment of information about the stock situation of an individual material.
This snapshot informing an inventory user of a material status in SAP is also called stock overview transaction. It provides the material stock balance on every organizational level (client, company code, plant, storage location) relevant to inventory management and will also display information for batches and/or valuation types and special stocks if needed.
Before discussing the stock overview transaction, please be informed that the numbers mentioned below (for example material, plant, etc.) are just for illustrative purposes. Learners are most likely to have different numbers in their SAP systems.
The title of the screen is Stock Overview: Company code/Plant/Storage Location/Batch. This title is listing some organizational levels for which the material stock balance can be provided if the stock overview is not set otherwise. This first screen is introducing us to the stock overview by requesting certain selection criteria with fields subdivided in three groups which are as follows.
List Display group inviting the user to further filter the stock overview by including more selective information among which a subgroup of checkboxes called Selection of Display Levels that is inviting the user to select exactly the organizational levels for which they wish to display the stock overview.
For the material R-B209 we can see organizational levels where it exists in the left column (company code 1000, plant 1100 and storage location 0001). However, only two stock types among the listed stock types which are unrestricted use and on-order stock types can be seen on the right side because of the quantities they are showing.
As SAP is logically differentiating quantities of a material in stock using stock types concept for effective inventory management, we can see that there are 40 pieces of R-B209 available in the inventory as unrestricted use stock and 20 pieces are currently on-order.
When these 20 pieces are going to be posted to stock during goods receipt process the available inventory for R-B209 will be 60 pieces under unrestricted use stock type (if posted to the unrestricted use stock type).
SAP stock overview transaction is made for display purposes. SAP MMBE gives the information about current material stock levels. It is possible to configure display of stocks in each column and sort the order into which they are displayed by performing customizing in SPRO transaction.
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In this SAP MM tutorial, we will learn about SAP t-code MMBE to Display Stock Overview, the step-by-step procedure to Display Stock Overview, and customize the t-code MMBE Stock Overview Display Report with proper screenshots.
To access the T-code MMBE in SAP, go to the SAP menu, enter the transaction code MMBE in the command field, and press enter. You will then be able to enter the material number for which you want to view the stock overview.
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The Army Materiel Command's common authorized stockage list (ASL) cultivates equipment readiness by ensuring that high-demand repair parts are stocked for armored brigade combat teams (BCTs), Stryker BCTs, and infantry BCTs. However, a BCT can shape and influence its own equipment readiness through the optimization of the unit-controlled shop stock list. Stocking critical, highly used, non-ASL repair parts at the unit level builds equipment readiness, reduces not mission capable (NMC) time, and shortens customer wait times.
Two types of maintenance-related supplies are authorized to be on hand in support-level maintenance activities: bench stocks, which are unpredictably used consumables, and shop stocks, which are demand-supported stocks.
In a decisive action operational environment, brigade support areas, field trains command posts, and combat trains command posts must have the ability to rapidly pack up and displace to a new area of operations. Considering the requirement for bench stocks to be highly transportable, a unit can order a small-parts storage box (national stock number [NSN] 8115-00-663-0212) or two transport and storage cases (NSN 8115-00-663-0213).
The first case has 64 plastic drawers that are 3x3x5 inches each. The second case has 24 plastic drawers; 16 are 6x2x5 inches, and the remaining eight are 6x4x5 inches. All the drawers contain dividers and a slot for inserting a label.
Shop stocks, on the other hand, are demand-supported repair parts and consumables stocked within a maintenance activity with a maintenance mission authorized by a modified table of organization and equipment, table of distribution and allowances, or joint table of allowances.
Units must also consider requirements associated with the shop stock they choose to keep on hand. Such requirements include storing, transporting, and safeguarding the items in multi-domain or decisive action operational environments. For example, the Joint Readiness Training Center requires that units be able to transport their shop stock in a single lift using organic transportation assets.
Units can implement a shop stock management system to optimize equipment readiness. First, a unit should conduct a deliberate inventory of all shop stock to ensure information is correctly put into the Global Combat Support System-Army (GCSS-Army) so that personnel can rapidly locate on-hand parts to reduce NMC time.
Then the unit should pull demand history for specific storage locations (SLOCs) over a specified period of time. In GCSS-Army, personnel should use transaction code ZPROSTAT, which is the open status report. Once the data is exported to a spreadsheet, the data should be sorted to find the highest demand items across the organization, and that list should be cross-referenced against the BCT's ASL to produce a list of recommended items to stock on the shelf at the unit motor pool.
To gain greater context and make a well-informed decision regarding which NSNs to stock at the unit level, units should coordinate with the Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity (AMSAA) to determine Army-wide demand history over the past 365 days for a particular end item.
AMSAA can provide a recommended shop stock list based on the number of dead-lining faults for a particular NSN and a unit's vehicle density. Given the constraints and limitations associated with shop stocks, units should consider the prioritization of its shop stock based on the unit's demand history and AMSAA's observations of Army-wide demand.
After completing the analysis to determine which NSNs to stock on the shelf, a unit can forecast budgeting requirements to purchase the repair parts and place the desired NSNs on order. Units can consider turning on the automatic reorder point in GCSS-Army to replenish shop stock items consumed in daily maintenance activities.
A unit can leverage other organizations' shop stocks to reduce NMC days. A unit should ensure its maintainers are trained to use transaction code MMBE (stock overview) and can create a variant with all the SLOCs in the BCT to gain asset visibility for a particular NSN.
Maintenance personnel can pull the SLOCs of adjacent units on its installation to rapidly query their shop stocks when locating a needed repair part by using transaction code ZSPTX, which is the display organization/force element table.
Once in ZSPTX, a unit can enter the routing identifier code of other supply support activities on the installation. Once the report is executed, GCSS-Army will generate the list of SLOCs associated with that supply support activity. The SLOCs should then be pasted into MMBE, and a unit will have asset visibility of a particular NSN in an adjacent BCT's shop stock.
An optimized and carefully managed shop stock list can significantly reduce customer wait time and decrease the number of days that key equipment is NMC. Stocking the right parts fills in gaps not covered by the common ASL and enables BCTs to be ready to "fight tonight."
Maj. Justin L. Darnell is the brigade logistics support team chief for the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, at Fort Drum, New York. He holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from Campbell University and a master's degree in business administration from Charleston Southern University. He is a graduate of the Command and General Staff College, Theater Sustainment Planners Course, Support Operations Course Phase II, and the Joint Operational Contracting Planning and Execution Course.
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