Cross Company Subcontracting for Serialized material

[Former Member]

Dear Friends,

We have implemented Cross Company Subcontracting.

our problem is about materials which we have to send to subcontractor company with serial number.

our subcontractor can not receive that because serial No and material are linked to each other once (in Sender Plant).

our ABAP developer wrote a program to disconnect material and serial in Sender Plant. so we did GR in subcontractor place.

the finished product is produced and subcontractor wants to send it back to our company. now we can't receive material here because of lost connection.

i do want to know the real solution for that.

[JL23]

do you one step or 2 step? which movement type do use?

[Former Member]

it is subcontracting so 2 steps.

we send material with MvT. 541.

Subcontractor receive with 101, backflush with 571.

send us finished product.

we receive with 101 and consume components with 543.

[JL23]

Oh, now I am surprised, I thought about 30C or 64A , but standard movement and cross company subcontracting....

Could you explain your setup in more details

[Former Member]

Actually we have SAP R/3, so we dont have 60A or 30C.

We are using Automotive IS, we send body ( which has serial number ) and other raw materials to our subcontractor.

he does goods receipt but has a problem about body. because cannot receive it serialized. (we can not assign material to serial number more than once in a client).

what is the solution here.

[JL23]

I am not familiar with IS Automotive, but I wonder how the other company can receive the body with 101.

Against which reference document is this made?

Just leave the serialization for a moment aside. Does your scenario work without serial numbers?

It would really help if you could explain your scenario in a little more detail.

[Former Member]

off course it works. it is the standard SAP scenario for subcontracting.

the second company receive materials with 101 and special stock E ( sales order stock )

[JL23]

sorry to bother you, but I am doing subcontract processes since 1997, and I do not get your scenario.

In a standard scenario you order a finished material from your subcontractor and you send him the components.

The components are just booked into subcontractor stock of your sending plant.

The external subcontractor does the operations in his system and has no connection to our SAP. When we get the finished material we receive it and consume the components at the same time. All this is done in the ordering plant.

Now coming to intercompany process. Both parties are in one SAP system.

If the components are send to your subcontracting plant, then they are still in subcontractor stock (special stock indicator O) in your sending plant.

How can the subcontracting plant receive the components in SAP?

if you have a sales order and this is a make to order process, the sales order is in the same plant as your ordering plant for the subcontract order.

If you could be so nice and could your process explain in this detail, maybe then it is easier to understand.