Especially if you make it more meaningful and relate it to your average inventory holding. The dead stock key figure is an excellent measure to build hitlists and find ‘high opportunity’ items. Looking at one of those evaluation graphs, you can see that the dead stock during 2008 was at 6,000 and in 2009 we had dead stock that we never dipped into, of 2,800. But that comes at a price: runtime! and if you are not on HANA yet, you will have to talk to your user about patience and the appropriate scheduling of coffee breaks. If, on the other hand, you are using the document evaluations (MC50), then your dead stock calculation is accurate, since that transaction goes through all goods issue and goods receipts documents, that were ever posted within the period of examination. And I say approximately, because if you call this graph up from the LIS transactions that are based on info structures (MC.9, MC.A etc.), then you get the ending inventory day by day – and not the lowest point during that day. That is your dead stock portion of that period… at least approximately. So naturally, you can see the lowest point during any given period. If we do an analysis in the LIS, we can see how far the stock comes down posting issues and how it goes back up after a receipt… day by day. The dead stock portion of your inventory is simply that amount of stock, that you do not dip into, during a defined period of time. ![]() ![]() What is dead stock in SAP? It has nothing to do with farm animals and neither is it safety stock.
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