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Jan 17, 2012 at 12:05 PM

Linked Materials in MM

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Hi all

We have a business scenario where we currently purchase and sell a product as one item (let us say that it is a notebook in a box), but we have just been advised by HMRC that both the notebook and box need to have separate commodity codes as the box can be used to hold items other than the notebook.

We now have the requirement that we need to deal with two separate products, both inbound and outbound from our warehouse, so we cannot use a kitting or sub-contracting process. We are thinking of using cross-selling in SD to link the two products. This will work fine in MM as long as a Sales Order is our start point. We'd have 2 items on an SO and MRP would generate requirements for both. However, SD is not always our start point. We could also generate planned independent requirements, or create manual purchase requisitions.

So my question is this: Is there any way to link materials in MM so that we always procure the items together?

Cheers

Matt