Batch Maintenance in Subcontracting

Use

You need to establish in the subcontract orderin purchasing which batch of the material provided should be delivered to the vendor (a specific steel sheet with particular characteristics, for instance).

Prerequisites

The material must be managed in batches.
When you make the transfer posting to the stock of material provided to vendor, a transfer posting should be made with reference to the purchase order. It is currently not possible to make col lective transfer postings.

Features

The batch number can be included in the subcontract orderfor each subcontracting component.
The system proposes the batch number when the consumption posting is made at the time of goods receipt for the subcontract order.

In a dialog box, you can select how the stocks of the subcontractor are to be displayed:

If you select Group by Batches , the system displays the requirement and stock of the subcontractor for each individual batch. The quantities are only ever allocated within one batch. Requirement and stock without batch specification are displayed separately.
If you do not select Group by Batches , the system displays the requirement and stock of the subcontractor for the entire component. The batch number is displayed as additional information if the detail lines are shown. There are also detail lines for the stocks. The quantities are always assigned within the component, independently of the batch number.