Process Industry- GRN of by product to resource storage automatically & continuous process of the ingredient

[Former Member]

Dear All,

We are designing solution for one of the pharma industry.

The intermediate material is identified as by-product which is being produced in step 2. After that it is being stored in one storage tank & after some time it is being issued to the next step.

I have identified storage tank as resource & assigned the storage location to it.

My queries are, when the storage location is assigned to the resource then the GRN of any by-product assigned tot that phase should happen to the storage location automatically. Is my assumption right or wrong?

Another query is that, one of the component i.e. distilled water is being mixed in one of the step say step 5. After completion of that step we get back part of it. It is then sent for reprocessing & comes back to step 5. The reprocessing is a continuous process. How should I map this, as another phase in step 5 or as a separate operation? In both the option how can I identify it as a continuous process?

Timely answers will be appreciated.

Regards

Manoj P.

[former_member184574 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Maintain your by- product in your BOM with negative and positive qty's two times.

Now assign the component (by- product) with negative qty to phase after which it is comes as output.

assign the component (by-product) with positive qty to phase where it is consumed.

while confirming the phases (through COR6N) if you click on the goods movement tab you will be able to see the component details with 531 ( for by-product GR) movement and 261 ( by-product consumption ) details.you will be able to make goods movements.

Thanks

Kumar

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Kumar,

Thanks for the update. I have done exactly the same. My question was if the by product is assigned to a phase with resource as storage & if the storage location is linked to that resource in basic data tab page then I need not to enter that storage location in recipe or in process order against the by-product for GRN. System should pick the storage location from the resource assignment at the time of GRN of by-product with movement type 531. I am not so sure if this is how the standard SAP behaves. If it's not that way then why there is a need to mention storage location in resource master data?

I also like ask if there is possibility of mapping phases in continuous loop. Standard SAP doen't support it but is there any work around available?

Manoj P.

[former_member184574 · Accepted solution]

Hi Manoj,

Maintain the storage location in BOM item details in Status/Lng Text tab. If you maintain here this will get copied to the process order automatically. GRN of the stock happens automatically to this storage location.

Coming to mapping phases in continuous loop you need use the functionality called relationships between the phases.

select the phase and click on the button   then you will get screen to map relationship as below like phase 0030 is performed after phase 0020 means phase 0030 is successor to phase 0020

Thanks

Kumar

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Kumar,

Let me explain again. I have defined storage location as a resource with resource category "storage" in CRC1. In it's basic data tab page I have maintained the corresponding storage location also.

My question is, if that resource is used in master recipe & the by-product is assigned to it with -ve quantity then system should pick the storage location mentioned in the resource & propose at the time GRN of that by-product, which is not happening.

Currently I am doing what you have suggested as maintaining storage location is BOM item details.

The relationship what you are talking about is only SF, FS, FF & SS. Here both the phases are connected in loop i.e. material processed in phase 0020 is sent to 0030, after 0030 it comes back 0020 & so on. So it is endless loop which standard SAP doesn't support. Is there any way out?

Manoj P.