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Material number for chemical with different packing sizes

ericsj
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A same chemical that we purchase from supplier can be in 25Kg bag, 1000kg bag and 50 kg bag. When we receive the chemicals, the physical goods of the chemical are in 25 KG Bag, 1000kg Bag and 50Kg bag store in the warehouse.

When we sell to customer, it can be in those 3 standard bag size or in KG depend the order quantity from customer.

For the above Chemical what is the best way to catalogue the material number, should it be 3 material numbers for the 3 different pack size, or 1 material number only?

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Former Member
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Hi,

As per my opinion there shoudl be three different materil codes in which you can build a logic of 25Kg, 1000Kg and 50Kg, which will help users to identify the material and packaging size at the first point itself. for eg.

Material Code could be - Chem0025, Chem1000,Chem0050 so that you will come to know material as well as packaging size.

If Production requires Chem0025 - 1000kg, means a store user can understand that material is required as 1000kg but in packages of 25Kg.

Hope it will help you.

Regards,

Vikas Mayekar

Former Member
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you can have two solution for this with both pros & cons with one material master:

1. You can have three different unit of measure for 25KG, 1000KG & 50KG bag and you can maintain the relationship in the material master. This will help you to get the total stock in KG in your company and you can sell to the customer. Only problem is you will not be able to determine how much of each type of packaging you have.

2. You can define the material relevant for batch management. Create three batches 25KG,1000KG & 50KG, also create three different unit of measures as explained above. Now whenever you are doing the GR just put the material in correct batch, by doing this you can easily track you material along with the type of packaging. Also you can sell the material, while delivery you can use the functional of batch determination based on some log. Only problem is manual intervention which can be covered if you use some exit while doing GR so that correct batch is selected based on the Order Unit.

Hope this will help you..

Enjoyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Akshit