Slow or Non-Moving Materials
Application component: Fiori UI for Stock and Goods Movements
App type: Analytical
Line of business: Supply Chain
Leading industry: Cross Industry
Solution capability: Goods Movement (S/4)
Scope items: Core Inventory Management
Description:  With this app, you can monitor and make time-dependent investigations of the slow or non-moving materials in your stock. Based on these results you can react immediately with follow-on activities such as scrapping or stock transfers. Non-moving materials represent a combination of locations and materials where the stock level is not zero and no consumption postings were posted for a defined period of time. It is also possible to track slow-moving materials. This app supports you in your daily work, for example, as an inventory manager, to achieve maximum inventory accuracy and subsequently to optimize the inventory situation in your stock. 
This app delivers an analysis on slow or non-moving materials.
Key features:  Monitor Slow or Non-Moving Materials   Monitor slow-moving materials for which you are responsible.   Monitor how much capital is tied up by the slow-moving items, for example, by checking the total value in your chosen display currency.   Monitor materials with low consumption based on the consumption to stock ratio with the Slow-Moving Indicator. The Slow-Moving Indicator makes it possible to compare different materials with regards to (slow-moving) consumption. Therefore, you can identify and compare critical materials based on your individual criteria.   Monitor materials without consumption (Slow-Moving Indicator = 0) based on an analysis for an individual time period. As a result, the app displays a list of materials without consumption that fit your filter criteria.   Consider only your specific consumption-relevant goods movements using the Inventory Consumption Group filter. The Inventory Consumption Group filter only considers those material documents as a consumption-relevant goods movement where the related movement types are part of your specific inventory consumption group. You can make the necessary settings using the corresponding SSC UI Define Inventory Consumption Groups. Here you can create groups with movement types that you consider to be consumption. All material documents connected to the movement types that are part of your specific inventory consumption group are then defined as consumption.   Define follow-up actions such as scrapping or stock transfers, or inform colleagues about the stock situation.   Save variants of the tile regarding materials for which you are responsible. For example, a tile for materials in a specific plant where inventory value is close to zero for 90 days or longer.  Note The app calculates the stock values based on the stock quantity of the selected reporting date multiplied by the current material price. This means that the app always calculates using the current material price, irrespective of the reporting date you have selected. This calculation method for the stock value is common to all Fiori apps in Inventory Management.Note Depending on your authorization settings, the app might only display zero in all the stock value columns in the results table. This type of financial information is often only available to a specific group of users. If only zero is displayed, you can hide these irrelevant value columns in the table display or get in contact with your administrator to clarify what you are authorized to display.  Analysis support with charts on detail page With the Slow or Non-Moving Materials detail page you can obtain more information on material / plant level for the selected material. The Slow-Moving Indicator over Time graphic visualizes the evolution of the monthly slow-moving indicator for the past 12 months. For more information about analysis support for slow or non-moving materials, see Analysis Options on Detail Level.   Slow-Moving Indicator   Slow-Moving Indicator Calculation in the Selected PeriodThis indicator is defined as the total consumption quantity (QCons) for the analysis period divided by the product of stock quantity (QStock) on the reference date and the period length in number of days (NODays). In addition, the indicator is normalized for the year by multiplying by 365 days and 100 percent, because an analysis of slow-moving materials typically considers periods of a few months. By taking time and percentage into account, the normalized result makes different analysis periods comparable.Note The Slow-Moving Indicator takes only those stocks into account that already existed at the beginning of the selected reference period. Note A slow-moving indicator = 100 means that 100 % of the current stock will be consumed within one year.A slow-moving indicator = 1 means that 1 % of the current stock will be consumed within one year.Note NODays is the number of days in the analysis period and determined from the Days with Low Consumption parameter + 1. 1 stands for the reference date, which is included in the period. Predict Slow-Moving Indicator   Use predictive analytics models to monitor the development of the Slow-Moving Indicator over the selected time period. If the predictive model is active, the system calculates a predicted future trend, based on your company’s historical data, on how the slow-moving indicator will develop in the course of the next 3 month.   In addition, the app supports the following technical features and options:  This app includes SAP CoPilot. This digital assistant in the SAP S/4HANA system supports you with features like business context awareness or quick actions to manage follow-on activities directly from the app.  
Business roles: Inventory Manager| Shipping Specialist| Shipping Specialist - Just-In-Time Supply| Warehouse Clerk| Receiving Specialist| Inventory Manager (Retail)
Shipping Specialist : 
Processes outbound deliveries.

Warehouse Clerk : 
Executes daily warehouse operations, such as carrying out stock transfers, analyzing stock-out situations, reverse material documents, etc.

Inventory Manager (Retail) : 
Manages inventory with respect to quantity and value.

Inventory Manager : 
Manages inventory with respect to quantity and value.

Shipping Specialist - Just-In-Time Supply : 
Processes outbound deliveries for Just-In-Time calls.

Receiving Specialist : 
Processes inbound deliveries.

Inventory Analyst : 
Analyzes stock figures and historical stock information.