Make To Order

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

Can any body give me some Idea in how to configure Make To Order scenario in the MM.

Scenario: when business wants to procure specific materials that has to be produced by the vendor by the specified business requiremet.When placing the Purchase order the unique atributers/characterisits of that material are entered and given to the vendor to produce that material.

Regards,

Sridevi.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

It is MTO for vendor.MTO means that we are producing materials inhouse and delivering it to respective customers after we receive the sales order from them.

Charecteristics can be added/created at the time of PO for which variant configuration process can be used to map that in SAP.But that is more suitable for inhouse produced,not externally procured.

Regards,

Deepak.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Deepak thanks for your inputs.I will explain my requiremet.

my client needs some printed material to be procured from the vendor.For this he will raise the PO to the vendor saying I need 1000 copies should be printed,on the XYZ paper.XYZ size,XYZ cover pages and XYZ colours,and binded on XYZ design.All the XYZ are the characteristics of the material printning.So how to enter this Char to be enter manually in the PO.and after that those needs to be printed on the PO which is going to send to vendor.

Any Inputs are greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Sridevi.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

For your scenario we can make use of variant configuration without configurable BOM

Copy material type KMAT and save it as a Z material type.

Activate Purchasing,classification,basic data and accounting view fo rthe material type.Deactivate all other views in material type.

Assign a field selection key (use raw materials Field selection key).

create a charecteristic called quality in CT04 and input two values(X,Y)

Create a class in CL02 with class 300 variants and assig the charecteristics.

In MM01 create a material wit your desired mtrl type and enter the class in classification view and maintain purchasing view,accounting view.

Maintain configuration profile in CU41 for your material.

Create PO and you will find configurable charecteristiocs in Material data tab.

Regards,

Deepak.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Deepak thanks a lot,

I will try this and incase any input needed I will contct you.Thans again.

Regards,

Sridevi.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Sreedevi,

If i am not mistaken you need to add the material specifications and it should reflect in the purchase order sent to vendor.I suggest to add the specifications (paper type etc.) in the PO text of info.record so that whenever PO is raised on that vendor, the specifications will get copied automatically from the info.record to the PO. Output also will essentially show the specifications.

To create info.record use T code ME11. Info.record will be for a combination of Vendor,material,Purchase org.& plant.

Hope this solves your problem.

I think,neither variant config.not MTO has any relevance to your requirement.

Regards

Venkat

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Venkat,

Thanks for your inputs.

I need to have the Characteristis of a material should defaulted and user will give the inputs while raising the PO.

for eg: the below are to be always defaulted

1) Paper size =

2) Colour =

3) cover pages =

4) Binding =

the above characteristics are to be hard coded and the inputs will be entered manually by the end user based on requirement.

Regards,

Sridevi.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Sridevi,

Thanks for a quick reply. This will call for Z development. Tcode can be ZME21N instead of standard ME21N can be the T-code wherein you will have all these fields and user will enter all those values.

You must contact your Abap team and get this developed.

Regards

Venkat