external operation storage location

[Former Member]

Hi,
   I am generating a purchase requisiton for an external operation from a production order. This purchase req is a std purchase req and account assignment is F (production order). The line item does not have a storage location due to which the ME59N fails. Does anyone know how I can get the strorage location for this external operation purchase req to populate and how I can get the ME59N to work for purchase reqs of these kinds ?

Thanks

[kiran_kumar179]

GS,

With BADI PP_OM_BD_BANF_HEADER_MATERIAL you can copy the production order header material to subcontracting purchase requisition where you can copy the storage location in PO check with your technical consultant.

Br

KK

[Caetano]

Hello

I'd like to suggest you to read carefully the following note:

503497 - Subcontracting and MRP areas

The following information provided on this note confirms that the storage location is not necessary for subcontracting, therefore, this field is empty:

The most important point to understand the system behavior is the fact that the withdrawal of the (subcontracting) component is generally carried out during the goods receipt for an SC procurement proposalfrom the subcontractor stock that is managed at plant level from an inventory management point of view and that has no reference to a storage location at all.

This causes that subcontractor requirements can never enter a storage location MRP area, since you can later not post the withdrawal from this MRP area.
Thus SC-requirements always enter the SC segment of the plant MRP area or the SC-MRP area.
The SC MRP area in turn is supplied by stock transfer reservations from the plant MRP area or via third-party order processing through procurement proposals with goods receipt directly to the subcontractor. A supply through the materials planning from a storage location MRP area is not possible.

For the above reason, SC-requirements do also not carry any storage location, since the storage location does not have any control function at all for SC-requirements:
You cannot and you should not determine a storage location MRP area (see above), and the subcontractor MRP area is determined via the vendor of the procurement proposal, thus it is independent of the storage location.

See also Note 376050 on this topic that makes a modification available which prevents the deletion of the storage location in the subcontractor requirements, so that you can use, for example, customer-specific reports to analyze the storage location.

You may consider the modification from note 376050, which prevents the deletion of the storage location from the subcontracting requirements, however, this is generally only relevant for displaying the storage location and this is not used for processing the item.

BR

Caetano

[Former Member]

ok thx for ur answers. Non of them are applicable to me though.Please ready my question carefully. I am talking about the case where my operation is sent out for outside work. I am not sending any components to the vendor. This creates a purchase req with account assignment F (production order). I cannot get ME59N ot work in this case as it asks me for a storage location. I want to know how to get ME59N to work for this case and for that I need to know how to have the storage location populate in the line item.

[kiran_kumar179]

GS,

Can you double click on error message for details and post the snap shot?

Br

KK

[Former Member]

there is nothing showing up when I double click....there are no more details.

[former_member184737]

Hi GS,

     Generally, for subcontract PR which is generated through production order, system wont ask for storage location since its an output which is in between operation. We never keep this as stock in this scenario. Please check the routing, for this case, system should propose subcontract PR. Please check and revert back.

Thanks

[former_member184737]

Hi G S,

     If its production subcontracting means most probably you don't have separate material number for the operation output. System raise the subcontract PR with external operation description instead of material. You can send additional component to this subcontract PO for processing. When you do the GR against this subcontract PO system will set the external operation status as EODL -External Operation delivered. What's the exact problem do you facing while production subcontracting? Could you please share the screen shot or detailed error description?

Thanks