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Aug 02, 2023 at 04:22 PM

SPARE PARTS management

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Hi Gurus,

In our environment, “Spare parts” are products that are associated with other (parent) products or with projects where there are multiple pieces of equipment.

They are not promoted or marketed but rather are sold by the after-sales service and are in the Equipment product group.

Creating these items as products in SAP is an arbitrary decision. This creation facilitates the process of ordering from the supplier, receiving goods, invoicing, and traceability.

On the other hand, these items are numerous and additional sales are often limited.

Additionally, many parts are exclusive to a particular customer or piece of equipment.

Let's take a few examples to illustrate scenarios:

A- A swivel wheel with 4” brake: a formal product that is frequently resold and integrated into product compositions. Standard price and volume price.

B- A replacement brush for a customer's brushing machine: custom-made product associated with the customer that cannot be ordered by others and whose price fluctuates.

C- A temperature alarm on a ferment freezer: product nested in the parent product and sold as an option.

D- A cutting blade from a Vendor of molding tower: custom made product based on a drawing for specific equipment for a specific customer.

E- A replacement conveyor belt from project x: commercial product sized and assembled on site based on a drawing specific to the equipment and the customer.

The spare parts are often purchased from more than one vendor, so they have more than one BP Catlog Number, more than one cost price, and goes with more than one “main equipment/machine”…

So, I am wondering what the best solution would be to manage our spare parts…and to follow up with which equipment/machine it goes…

THANKS!