SAP Learnings - #14

Dear all,

Today, let us delve into Reservations in SAP.

Reservation is a system document that shows requirement of certain material for production, cost center and any other need. This is used to hold the inventory before issue to user departments. Ideally, material issued against a reservation must not exceed the reserved quantity mentioned.

What is the risk?

• Manipulation of inventory levels if materials can be issued by Stores beyond reserved quantity
• Possibility of excess consumption where BOM exists or the requirements are specific and fixed

How can this be verified?

• Export SAP Table “RESB” for the audit period. This table will contain requirement and withdrawn quantity. Cases where withdrawn quantity is more than requirement quantity can be identified.
• System walkthrough can be done to check if warning/error message appears when excess quantity is posted. As we have understood the difference between warning and error message in SAP learning #4 , user can override warning message and still post the entry. Error message is the suggested system control to prevent such cases.?

That’s it for today.

Until next time….

Signing off,

Balaji M