Direct Procurement/Production: Processing Standardized

Scope of Functions

Withdirect procurement or production, you can directly procure or produce for consumption. The materials are not put on stock but directly consumed for the production order.

• Up to now, direct procurement was not used for make-to-order or for engineer-to-order production . Now it is possible to directly procure for make-to-order and engineer-to-order production.

• Up to now, direct procurement and direct production were only possible on material master level. Now you can activate both for just one specific BOM, by entering the appropriate special procurement key in the respective BOM item under MRP data. This entry overwrites the entry in the material master.

• The process for direct procurement was as follows up to now:

a) In Customizing, you defined at which point in time the direct procurement was to be triggered: either directly during the MRP run, or when the production order was created.

b) You used the item category in the BOM to flag the components that were to be procured directly as non-stock items.

The system automatically triggered direct procurement for the non-stock items at the chosen point in time.

This type of process remains unchanged.

There is now a parallel type of process which is the same as the process for direct production:

c) In Customizing, you define at which point in time direct procurement is to be triggered (see above).

d) You use the item category in the BOM to flag the component that is to be procured directly as a stock item.

e) If direct procurement is generally valid for a particular component, enter the special procurement key for direct procurement in the MRP view of the material master for the component.

f) If direct procurement is valid for only one particualr BOM, enter the special procurement key in the respective BOM item, under MRP data. This entry overwrites the entry in the material master.

When you activate direct procurement in the material master, you can switch off direct procurement for a particular BOM by deactivating direct procurement in the respective BOM item, in the MRP data screen under explosion control. This entry overwrites the entry in the material master.

The system automatically triggers direct procurement at the chosen point in time.

The directly procurred components are displayed in a separate direct procurement segment in the MRP list and the stock/requirements list.

We recommend the new process using the flag for stock items.