Use

You can use storage resources in the master recipe and process order to plan the storage of materials during production and between two manufacturing levels.

You can also use an ordinary storage location for intermediate storage. However, the storage resource has the following advantages:

Prerequisites

A storage location and a storage resource must have been created in the system for the storage facility you want to use to temporarily store the material. The storage location must have been assigned to the storage resource.

Features

You can use storage resources to reproduce the following scenarios:

Pure Intermediate Storage

In this case, you use a storage resource to which you only assign a storage capacity in the form of a maximum stock quantity. You reproduce the material flow as follows:

Intermediate Storage Between Manufacturing Levels

You can temporarily store the material produced in one manufacturing level until the next manufacturing level. Depending on the type of product, you proceed as follows:

In the production version of the first manufacturing level, you assign the storage location of the storage resource where you want to store the header material to the header material.

In the second manufacturing level, the same material is contained in the material list as a material component. You assign the same storage location to the material.

Co-products and by-products are listed as material components with a negative quantity in the material list of the first manufacturing level. You assign the storage location of the storage resource where you want to store the co-product or by-product to the material component.

The same material is listed with a positive quantity in the material list of the second manufacturing level. This means that it is to be withdrawn from storage. You assign the same storage location to the material.

Intermediate Storage Within a Manufacturing Level

A material component that is to be temporarily stored within a manufacturing level (for instance, an intra material) is contained in the material list twice:

You assign the storage location of the same storage resource to both material components.

Process Step Including Intermediate Storage

For these operations, you use a storage resource to which you have assigned both a storage capacity in the form of a maximum stock quantity and a production capacity that is valid for a limited period of time. You assign the storage resource to the corresponding operation as a primary resource. You reproduce the material flow as follows:

Intermediate Storage Between Manufacturing Levels

You can temporarily store the material produced in one manufacturing level in the resource in which the last process step was carried out. You do this in exactly the same way as in pure intermediate storage.

In the production version of the first manufacturing level, you assign the storage location of the storage resource, that is, the storage location for the primary resource of the last process step, to the header material.

In the second manufacturing level, the same material is contained in the material list as a material component. You assign the same storage location to the material.

Intermediate Storage Within One Manufacturing Level

If you want to store the material component temporarily within a manufacturing level, you proceed as follows:

The material to be stored is contained in the material list twice:

You assign this item to the last phase before the storage operation.

You assign this item to the first phase after the storage operation.

The material list contains the following items for the old material:

You assign this item to the last phase before the storage operation.

You assign this item to the phase for the process step within the storage operation.

The material list contains the following items for the new material:

You assign this item to the phase for the process step within the storage operation.

You assign this item to the first phase after the storage operation.