Provision of Components (SAP Library

Provision of Components

Use

When you provide components, you transfer post materials from the unrestricted-use stock to the SC stock. You make this stock available to your vendor so that the materials can be manufactured in subcontracting. The SC stock is located at your vendor, but remains the property of your company until the goods receipt of the finished product. You can carry out the purchase order of the components with and without reference to an SC order.

Providing Components without Purchase Order Reference

To provide components without reference to an SC order, choose Logistics ® Materials Management ® Inventory Management ® Goods Movement ® Transfer Posting, and then choose Movement type ® Transfer posting ® Stck w. subcontract. ® From unrestricted (541).

Enter the vendor, the plant, and the material you want to provide the vendor with and confirm your entries with Enter.

Use the F4 Help to enter SKU data or choose Stock selection to see the unrestricted-use stock of individual SKUs and to transfer post SKU quantities to the SC stock based on this.

Providing Components for Existing Purchase Orders

Since the SC stock is not generated based on a purchase order, you can transfer post components with reference to exactly the same purchase order as often as you like. The purchase order reference merely makes it easier for you to enter the components.

The standard subcontracting monitoring list has been enhanced for AFS materials.

You transfer standard or AFS materials, which you use as components to be provided, out of the SAP standard subcontracting monitoring list from unrestricted-use stock to SC stock. To do so, choose Logistics ® Materials Management ® Purchasing ® Purchase Order ® Reporting ® SC Stocks per Vendor.
To see a display of SKU data for each individual AFS material, choose .

To trigger the provision of the components, select the corresponding materials or SKUs and choose Post goods issue. When you transfer post AFS components to SC stock, the system does not only select the categories for which stock exists, but proposes all the categories that you have defined in the coverage strategy for the corresponding AFS material. If there are several batches in storage, the system proposes the corresponding batches for you to select.
You can navigate from the SKU overview to a detailed list of the component requirements per purchase order via . You only need this list

if the component posting of the subcontract order is updated based on to a purchase order
if the overview, indicating for which component the material has been posted to SC stock, is necessary for the organizational process

AFS Restrictions

The AFS system does not support stock transfer reservations.

Please see the documentation Subcontracting in Inventory Management for further restrictions in Inventory Management.