To use up remaining stock of outdated itemsThis topic introduces the concept of use-up materials. Often, new items are introduced that, in turn, make other items obsolete. The obsolete items are no longer deliverable or the items are no longer manufactured. If this type of item was used as material in a bill of material (BOM), you must replace the material by a replacement item with the same specifications. However, if you still have a quantity of the outdated material on stock, you want to use that first. The value of the Last allowed Order Date field in the Items - Ordering (tcibd2500m000) session determines when LN stops reordering the use-up material. To set the system up to use up the remaining quantity of the outdated item, you define that item as a use-up material in the BOM. Important! This functionality is available only if the Use Up and Alternative Materials check box in the Implemented Software Components (tccom0100s000) session is selected. Restrictions
Checks for use-up materials At any of the following moments, depending on parameter settings, LN can check whether you must use any use-up material:
For more information, refer to Searching for alternative and use-up materials.. To use revisions and lot control instead of use-up materials If you use the Engineering Data Management (EDM) module to control changes in a bill of material (BOM) and you link subsequent revisions to the same item code on a BOM line, you cannot apply the use-up functionality. For that situation, you can apply lot control and use the FIFO outbound method. That outbound method ensures that you use up the outdated revision before you take the new revision.
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