Hi, I am Martin Rowan, and in today's dynamic business world, many organizations rely on SAP to manage rising customer demands, shifting market dynamics, and the complexity of global supply chains. Yet, despite SAP's comprehensive functionality, its full potential often remains untapped. For over 30 years, we've led the charge in maximizing SAP's capabilities, and this journey has revealed a startling fact. Most organizations use less than 35 percent of SAP's capabilities. While the reasons may vary, there is always a common hurdle, a lack of targeted SAP training for the business user. This is where we step in. Our mission is to bridge the training gap, unlock SAP's complete potential for you, your team, and your organization. Imagine boosting process efficiencies by 25%, increasing service levels by as much as 20%, and reducing [00:01:00] inventories by 15%. With the right SAP knowledge, these results are possible. Welcome to Reveal TV, SAP's supply chain training that unlocks the most powerful features through expert led, concise demonstrations. Our easy to understand video content ensures you fully grasp each SAP function and feature. Collaborating with leading customers, Reveal TV zeroes in on the most sought after aspects of SAP ECC and S/4HANA. Our library is constantly growing, reflecting endless possibilities to fully harness the power of SAP. Plus, our AI driven video recommendations mean you spend less time searching and more time learning. So, join the Reveal TV community, and as a member, collaborate and enhance your company's supply chain performance. Together, let's revolutionize how you get the most out of SAP.
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The best way to learn is by doing and welcome to the video service that unlocks and reveals the hidden value in your SAP system. In this video we're going to focus on shelf life expiration date capability in warehouse. Steven, this is a big deal for many companies, how about you tell us a little bit more about how to deal with shelf life management? Absolutely Martin. Managing shelf life expiration dates in your warehouse is no easy task. WM has built specific stock removal or picking strategies that automatically direct you to the material or batch that will be expiring first. This allows you to maintain FIFO principles and minimize expiring materials. The most critical thing warehouse folks must do is pick the batch called upon from SAP rather than picking another just because it may be easier or closer. In this video I will demonstrate. A few tools. And best practices to help warehouse staff identify and manage SLED materials and materials that have surpassed their expiration dates. Many organizations and warehouses have materials that expire. There's many different strategies and really ways that you can manage your shelf lives within your organization, your supply chain, and SAP is certainly capable of helping utilize and really manage those shelf lifes. So one of the first transactions that we'll display here is going to be LX27 which is the SLED, which is shelf life expiration date control list. There's two required fields here, it could be your warehouse number which has shelf lives. The second is going to be down here in the number of days remaining in your shelf life. You can see below that there's two bubbles that are populated there. The first is total remaining shelf life, which accommodates for your transit time or your transportation time, such as your goods receipt time. It takes into consideration the overall picture outside of the warehouse, which is awesome. The second one below that is just simply, hey, it's expired in the warehouse, you need to get it out now before it actually expires and doesn't take into consideration some of those lead times.
The best way to learn is by doing so. Welcome to the video service that unlocks and reveals the hidden value in your system. Martin here, and today we've got a good one, in this video we're going to explore a material availability date, otherwise known as the MAD date. SAP has such a wide variety of dates which all have specific purposes and lead to a flow of information that drives our supply chain. The material availability date is no exception, as is what drives the required on hand date for MRP, traffic light, stock on hand, and exceptions. It's pretty important. We don't want to miss out on what exactly it is. So, Kristie, why don't you tell us exactly why the material availability date is called the MAD date? Because Martin, it's the date that the customers get mad if we don't have material available, and that might be our external customers, or our sister facilities, or even the manufacturing floor. Okay, before I jump into SAP for this demo, did you at least chuckle? That's it, folks. That's as funny as she gets. Yeah, okay. So what will we see in the demo today? We will explore how the MAD date gets determined. And some very important and often overlooked lead time considerations. How it shows up in the stock requirements list and what the impact is on the MRP run and exception monitoring. Off we go! All right, let's go in and see what this MAD date is all about. So, as we previously said, the MAD date is the date that the customer gets MAD if we don't have the product available. It's the date that the product is needed to be on the shelf so that all the other subsequent activities that are required in order to get it out the door to the customer on time based on when we made and are now trying to keep that promise. So, if you go into a sales order, and I'm going to show you an example of what I would call a flat schedule. I'll explain how this is actually working. You may see this a lot on your sales orders and what I want to do is explain what maybe should be happening instead. So let's just go in and we're going to grab the second item and I'm going to go in and I can see that there's a schedule line.
The best way to learn is by doing. Welcome to the video service that unlocks and reveals the hidden value in your SAP system. Hi, Martin here, and in this video, we're going to focus on two key features that every warehouse supervisor manager should view each day. So Steven, tell us why these features are so important to start the day. Absolutely, Martin. In this video, I will focus on capacity use per storage bin and the warehouse activity monitor. These two key transactions personally helped me as a warehouse manager, prepare for the day by viewing our potential supply chain disruptions and by analyzing the warehouse capacity health status. This video will demonstrate two key transactions that every warehouse supervisor, lead, or manager should really review every single morning to start the day. So this is something that I did and really paid dividends in the end. So the first is you want to take a look at your health as far as your warehouse capacity. So I would always go into LX04, enter my warehouse number, take a look and just get a high level overview of where I am with capacity usage percentage. How many empty bins I have per storage type. We utilized capacity usages, so the load percentage also meant a lot to me. This would give me a sense of where I could possibly move things. I could judge my inbound volume to see how much more I could put into each of these storage types. So really we were in a state of very, very, very high capacity so managing this, making sure that there was no bottlenecks was a big part of the morning function. Probably the most critical is going to be your Warehouse Activity Monitor. So your Warehouse Activity Monitor is going to be LL01. LL01, you'll enter your warehouse number, you have options here as far as entering movement type, storage types, etc, or you could just go ahead and click right through.
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