Purchasing Data
Bills of material can also include materials that are not kept in stock. These are generally procured externally and have the item category non-stock item (whether or not the component has a material master record).
You must maintain purchasing data for these BOM items, to ensure that the material is available in sufficient quantity on a certain date. You maintain this data on the Detail Screen: Purchasing Data.
The purchasing data that you can maintain for non-stock items is described below.
This key shows the buyer or purchasing group responsible for certain purchasing activities.
During a planning run, you can assign order proposals for an externally procured material to the appropriate purchasing group.
If the BOM is allocated to only one plant, and the non-stock item has a material master record, the system takes the purchasing group from the material master record as a default.
This field is for a standard non-stock item.
This number is unique and identifies a vendor in the R/3 System.
When you explode the BOM component, the system creates a purchase requisition for the vendor required.
The delivery time (in days) for the material is required so that the system can determine the purchase order date.
If the BOM is allocated to only one plant, and the non-stock item has a material master record, the system takes the delivery time from the material master record as a default.
Purchase order date = Requirements date – Delivery time
You can use the material group to group together several materials with the same characteristics. The system needs this field to create the purchase requisition, so it is defined as a required field.
If the BOM is allocated to only one plant, and the non-stock item has a material master record, the system takes the material group from the material master record as a default.
The value you enter here is the time period (number of working days) after goods receipt (GR) that you need to check the material and place it in storage. This value is used in scheduling, for example, to determine the start and finish date for orders or operations.
If the BOM is allocated to only one plant, and the non-stock item has a material master record, the system takes the GR processing time from the material master record as a default.
This field contains the amount which is used in costing for pricing the product or assembly.
For non-stock items which are relevant to production and costing, the fields for price data are defined as required fields.
The price in the purchase requisition is used to determine the release strategy. If you do not enter a price for the non-stock item, the release strategy for a price of 0 is used.
The default price which appears does not depend on the price control indicator.
If the BOM is allocated to only one plant, and the non-stock item has a material master record, the system takes the price from the material master record as a default.
The system determines the local currency of the initial plant (for example, US$).
This field contains the number of the units of measure to which the price refers (for example, 120 gallons of gasoline cost $150.00).
If the non-stock item has a material master, the default is taken from the material master. Otherwise, the default value is
1 .Each cost posted is allocated to exactly one cost element. Primary cost elements (material costs for external procurement) are distinguished from secondary cost elements (internal services or parts produced in-house). Primary cost elements are maintained as part of the G/L account master record and secondary cost elements are maintained in costing.
This field contains the consumption account which is to be debited with the goods issue.
The system checks whether the G/L account entered exists in the company code (plant). The system uses the plant you enter to determine the valuation area, then the company code.
This entry is used in various application areas:
You must maintain a cost element for items that are relevant to costing.