SAP ABAP Data Element ALPRF_BI (Alternative Item: Ranking Order)

Hierarchy

☛ BBPCRM (Software Component) BBPCRM
   ⤷ CRM-MD-PRO (Application Component) Products
     ⤷ CS (Package) R/3 Application development: PP Bills of Material

Basic Data

Data Element	ALPRF_BI
Short Description	Alternative Item: Ranking Order

Data Type

Category of Dictionary Type	D	Domain
Type of Object Referenced		No Information
Domain / Name of Reference Type	CHAR2
Data Type	CHAR	Character String
Length	2
Decimal Places	0
Output Length	2
Value Table

Further Characteristics

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Parameter ID
Default Component name	ALT_ITEM_PRIO
Change document	☐
No Input History	☐
Basic direction is set to LTR	☐
No BIDI Filtering	☐

Field Label

	Length	Field Label
Short	10	Rank.Order
Medium	15	Ranking Order
Long	20	Ranking Order
Heading	2	RO

Documentation

Definition

Place value of the item within the alternative item group.

Use

The ranking order defines for the withdrawal posting which material components from the alternative item group should be taken into account for the reservations in the production order.

• Withdrawal according to usage probability

  For each of the items that is to be reserved, maintain the

• Strategy (Value 1 or no entry)
• Ranking order (only influences the sorting of the materials)
• Probability of usage
• Withdrawal for 100% availability

  For each of the items that is to be reserved, maintain the

• Ranking order
If you do not enter the ranking order, the system checks the items in the order in which they are transferred to the availability check.
• Strategy (value 2)
• Usage probability

Procedure

Example

Items 0060, 0065, and 0070 are assigned to an alternative item group and are given the following ranking order:

Item    Ranking Order

0060    3

0065    2

0070    1

This means that the system considers item 0070 first.

Dependencies

History

Last changed by/on	SAP	20031111
SAP Release Created in