SAP Note

931971 - Decimal places in stocks and stock postings

Version 2 Validity: 04.07.2006 - active Language English

Header Data
Released On 04.07.2006 14:37:26
Release Status Released for Customer
Component MM-IM Inventory Management
Other Components BC-SRV-ASF-UOM Unit Management
LO-MD-MM Material Master
Priority Recommendations / Additional Info
Category Consulting

Symptom
You are using a unit of measurement, for which the number of decimal places or the rounding is
restricted in Customizing. However, there are still stock postings and stocks that have more decimal
places.

Other Terms
cuni, T006-DECAN, T006-ANDEC, MIGO, MB03, MMBE, erfmg, menge

Reason and Prerequisites

The number of decimal places set in Customizing mainly affects the display of data values and in
certain cases, it also affects the determination of default values by the system.
However, you can manually enter as many decimal places as the field domain allows, this is usually
three.

For further information, read Notes 95869, 22043 and 77525.

Solution
There is no solution. In general, you cannot completely remove decimal places, neither from a
business perspective nor a technical perspective.

The 'Decimal places' field (T006-DECAN) in Customizing of a unit of measurement affects inventory
management as follows:

Quantity fields in material documents are displayed according to the number of decimal
places that is set.

This applies only if the value is not changed as a result, that is, if the value contains
more decimal places than the number set in DECAN, the fields are displayed with more decimal
places.

Therefore, the setting affects only the display. DECAN does not affect how the values are
saved in the database. The system does not check values that are entered manually against
the number of decimal places set in DECAN.

A setting of more than three decimal places is ineffective because the MENG13 domain that is
used allows only three.

Validity
This document is not restricted to a software component or software component version

References
This document refers to:
SAP Notes
95869 Decimal places for quantity fields (type QUAN)
77525 Quantity unit conversion in inventory management
22043 Proposed quantities not always whole numbers
This document is referenced by:
SAP Notes (3)
22043 Proposed quantities not always whole numbers
95869 Decimal places for quantity fields (type QUAN)
77525 Quantity unit conversion in inventory management