Non-val­u­at­ed inven­to­ry con­sists of mate­ri­als that are man­aged by the dis­trib­u­tor but owned by the cus­tomer. Hence, it has no book val­ue. A dis­trib­u­tor may have non-val­u­at­ed inven­to­ry for many cus­tomers in the same ware­house as its owned inven­to­ry. Inven­to­ry must tran­si­tion smooth­ly from val­u­at­ed to non-val­u­at­ed based on cus­tomer require­ments. Pick, pack, and ship become more dif­fi­cult when lot billing sce­nar­ios are included. 

The for­mat for Thurs­day, April 23 at 2 p.m. CT will include: 

• Brief wel­come and kick­off from ASUG 

• The dis­cus­sion will focus on: 

• What mas­ter data is required? 

• What trans­ac­tion­al data is required? 

• At what lev­el of detail can non-val­u­at­ed inven­to­ry be managed? 

• Cus­tomer level 

• Customer/​job level 

• Customer/​sales order level 

• Lot billing scenarios? 

• Can non-val­u­at­ed inven­to­ry be suc­cess­ful­ly man­aged with SAP IM only, with­out WM/EWM? 

• Have dis­trib­u­tors come up with their own alter­na­tive solu­tions, or adopt­ed third-par­ty solutions? 

Gain vis­i­bil­i­ty into the chal­lenges and suc­cess­es oth­er SAP cus­tomers are expe­ri­enc­ing, and acquire new ideas for real-world solutions. 

Insights:

• EWM is part of S/4: advanced fea­tures are avail­able to sup­port dis­tri­b­u­tion of goods
• There is no bet­ter time to join togeth­er as dis­trib­u­tor groups than right now (COVID-19)
• Dia­logue around the man­age­ment of non-val­u­at­ed inven­to­ry and recent impact dur­ing COVID-19

Links that were shared:

• June 22- 25: ASUG For­ward
• Con­nect with future Whole­sale Dis­tri­b­u­tion events on ASUG​.com

If you are expe­ri­enc­ing chal­lenges and would like to lead your own case study, fill out the sur­vey here.