Purchase Requisitions and Purchase Orders

The standard functions have been enhanced for subcontracting to indicate the type of special stock, identify the special stock, and set a special stock indicator for linked components.

Stock Overview

The standard Stock Overview function has been enhanced to cover special stock for Subcontracting forMROProcesses. You can view the stock situation at the subcontractor of the special stock for subcontracting.

Material Requirements Planning (MRP) Elements

In MRP, the following MRP elements have been added for Subcontracting forMROProcesses:

Batch Information Cockpit

The Batch Information Cockpit (BIC) supports special stock for Subcontracting forMROProcesses.

Goods Movements

During goods movement, the quantities of the components to be provided to the vendor from the special stock are entered into the different unvalued subcontracting stock. This stock has the following features:

Managed as unvalued special stock and is available for MRP

Can be used for:

Project stock (Q)

Sales order stock (E)

Customer stock (B)

Vendor consignment stock (K)

Returnable packaging stock from vendor (M)

Is either:

Unrestricted-use stock

Quality inspection (QI) stock

Note that before transferring QI stock to the subcontractor, it must be posted into unrestricted stock. Parts returned from the vendor can be received in QI or unrestricted stock.

Stock can be transferred between the two stock types. Withdrawals can be posted only from unrestricted-use stock.

Archiving

You can archive the following special stock types using archiving object MM_SPSTOCK:

Before a special stock record can be archived and deleted, other objects that refer to this special stock must themselves be archived.