Non Stock part needs purchasing view?

[Former Member]

When I am converting a planned order to a production order I am getting an error message CO071 Purchasing data of material is not maintained. This is a non stock item. Why would I be getting this. Do I need to maintain the purchasing view for this material? Please advise

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi

For this material, if the procurement type is External (in MRP2)

Then ther are chances for the system to ask for the purchasing view

Please check the procurement type in MRP2 view of MATERIAL MASTER

Regards

BRSR

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks for your reply,...however, this part does not have the MRP views either. Any other clues?

[rammohan_shenoy · Accepted solution]

Kimberly,

Whenever you use a Non Stock item in production order (ie it is maintained in BOM as non stock item category N) then system assumes you will procure this component when a production order is created. System then generates a direct procurement indicator in the component overview of the production order against that NON stock material.

Generally it forces you to maintain purchasing data in BOM (CS01/ CS02) with an additional purchasing tab created for Non stock items. I am sure this gives you an idea of what is missing in your master data.

Additional questions please come back.

thanks,

Ram

[rammohan_shenoy · Accepted solution]

Kimberly,

What I also want to mention is that if your NON stock material does not have any MRP/ purchsing view you can maintain purchasing data in BOM component overview. Once this data is complete you will be able to create production order for material that has non stock item.

Alternatively if your client or organisation is open to changing settings on NON stock material type you can activate MRP, accounting & purchasing view for this material type. Path for config settings is given below for ready referance

SPRO --> Logistics general --> Material Master --> Basic settings --> Material types --> Define attributes of material types

Then select your material type (copy of SAP standard material type NLAG) --> Doubleclick . then under user departmants select required views (purchasing view in your case)

I am sure this will resolve your issue.

Thanks,

Ram

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

I managed to go in OMS2 and change the material type for my non stock on the fields ext purchase orders and internal purchase orders to 0 for no purchase orders allowed. it was set to 0 for internal and 2 for external. This fixed new material numbers going forward (no procurement type in the field. However material numbers that are already existing still have the procurement type F defaulted in and the field is greyed out. I went in and changed the field group 55 from required to optional to see if it would alow me to create a MRP profile where I could use the blank No Procurement, but the system keeps telling me it is a required field? It will allow me to change the procurement type in the MRP profile to E F or X...but will not allow me to use the blank one for no procurement.

I have managed to allow the production order to get created without the error message that says purchasing data is not maintained; but now receiving an error that says no price could be determined for this material.

Any clues???

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

With the above changes and also unchecking the indicator for cost relevant in the BOM this works. Closing the ticket as we figured this out on our own