Tools & spares need to change as non stock items..

[Former Member]

Dear All,

My client wants to make spares and tools as non stock items..previously they were stock items and they are around 2000

materials so instead of creating new materials with new material type i have decided to change material types of existing materials using MMAM..

Please tell me is this a right process to do?what will be the effect of this?

What is a correct procedure for this?

Thanks,

Naren

[Former Member]

Hi,

You check for the prerequisites

Prerequisites

1 .If you use the material ledger, the material must be settled in it.

2. If the old material type did not require you to specify a price control (for example, standard price or moving average price) for the material, the new material type must not be configured such that it allows only standard price as the price control.

3. If the material has been maintained from the Production Resources/Tools view, this view must also be allowed for the new material type.

4. .If the material is not a configurable material, the new material type must not be allowed only for configurable materials.

5. In Customizing for the Material Master (in Define Attributes of Material Types), the following indicators must have the same setting for the old material type and for the new material type:

• Material for process indicator

• Manufacturer part indicator

6. If inspection plans are required for quality management inspection of the material, they must be allowed for the new material type.

7. The Material type ID indicator (presently used only in Retail) must be the same for the old material type and for the new material type.

If the material is already in stock, or if reservations or purchasing documents exist for it, the following conditions must also be met:

1. . The stock values of the material of the new material type must be updated in the same G/L account as the stock values of the material of the old material type.

2. Quantities and values of the material of the new material type must be updated in exactly the same way in all plants as quantities and values of the material of the old material type.

3. If there is a transfer requirement for the material and if quants of the material exist, the new material type must also allow the material data to be maintained from the Warehouse Management view.

If the material, whose material type you want to change, was handled in batches and if, due to the maintenance statuses of the new material type, the material can no longer be handled in batches, although batches still exist, you cannot change the material type.

[Former Member]

Dear Krishna,

Thanks a lot for the shared infn!

I will go with previous material type only instead of changing it and will give "K" as A/C assignment category in Purchase

order so that it will get consumed as soon as MIGO is done.

But for that can i configure auto G/L and cost center using material type or material group so that my end user will not

have to enter it manually in Purchase order..

Also for using same material type what other settings need to do to make material as non stock in a plant.

Thanks,

Naren

[Former Member]

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