SAP BLOG Demand/supply graphical overview in S/4HANA MD04 stock/requirements list

This blog post is inspired by my response to Ann Hustis question S/4 HANA got rid of the MD04 “SAP Statistics Graphic”

Graphs in the old ECC days​

Since a long time age stock/requirements list, MD04 transaction, featured a graphical overview of stock levels, demand, supply:



Source: SAP Q&A – MD04 no graphics presentation

Refer to the blog post Make To Stock Planning to see the graphs in action and SAP Help entry Material Requirements Planning (PP-MRP) Graphical Display for details.

Graphs in the new S/4 world​

Surprisingly the graphs are not there anymore in S/4HANA!

That’s is another S/4HANA “innovation”. It’s been introduced with note 2348456 – WEBGUI mode for PK09, PK18, PK17, COR7 – it reads:







What they did is that they simply disabled the graphic display in MD04. Actually, it’s just a single line of code (include MM61RF50_FCTAB_FILL_TC, form routine FCTAB_FILL_TC):

FORM fctab_fill_tc.

DATA: l_objky TYPE objky.
DATA: lv_msgno LIKE sy-msgno.

REFRESH fctab.

PERFORM fctab_append USING 'GRAF'. "no graphic anymore

Notice the comment in the code – “no graphic anymore” – just like that… no explanation, no business rationale, no workaround, no nothing.

Reviving the good tools​

The good news is that the code to display the graphic is still there and it’s operational. So the graphic can be easily reactivated with two simple steps:

• Comment out the line from include MM61RF50_FCTAB_FILL_TC, form routine FCTAB_FILL_TC.
• Add GRAF code to the menu bar of ANZ_47 GUI status.

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