Purchase Requisition from Maintenance Order issue

[Former Member]

Dear Expert

In a maintenance order How purchase requisition can be triggered for a material if a required material is not available in stock.

Also, Please give your valuable thought on differencce between item catagory L & N. In what cases we have to use L & N in a maintenance order.

Thanks in Advance

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

In addition to above...

Stock items will create reservation & using MRP, system will generate the PR or PO. For the spare parts, MRP data should be maintained for automatic creation of PR or PO.

Based on the availability check assigned in Spare Parts master, system will check the availability of material in PM Order by which execution or release of PM order can be restricted. Based on the status of components, Item category can be changed from Stock Item (L) to Non Stock Item (N) so that components can be procured outside.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks for your valuable responses.

My question is that if I put item catagory 'N' for a perticular material in maintenance order, than system will generate automatic PR or not. here, I am not using MRP method.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

For Item Category "N", system will automatically generate the PR if PR type has been configured for Order category 30.

[Former Member]

system is generating PR of "service & repair type". how can I get this PR of material type/spare part PR.Plaease suggest the possibilities.

[Former Member]

Only for spare parts, you can mention the Item category either L (Stock Item - Reservation) or N (Non stock item - PR).

You can't mention Item Category for Service.

[Former Member]

Here I have also maintain L & N for spare part not for service.

[Former Member]

By maintaining N Item category for spare parts, are you getting PR or not???

[Former Member]

Yes I am getting PR No. But This PR is of 'service & repair type'. this should come of ,spare part'/ material type PR.

[Former Member]

There will be only one PR type can be assigned to PM Orders. You can't have multiple PR types.

[Former Member]

ok thanks

[former_member182535]

Hi,

If you put material for non-stock item(N), system will create PR.And u can use this PR in creating in PO (ME21n). by this u can create the PO for the Non stock materail. After this u can check for realising status of PO if it is set u can realse by (ME29n) after this u give GRN for the material which alrady moved to stores and realivetly cost is setteled in settelment rule in order itself.But on stockable item(L) system will create always Reservation no against material quantity.

[Former Member]

ok

Thanks to all for valuable response.

[sebastian_lenartowicz]

Greetings Pravin,

If your material is not in stock, you will see an unsatisfied requirement for that material in stock. (e.g. t-codes MD04, MD07, CO09). This material then has to be requisitioned (either manually or via MRP) and purchased into stock, then it becomes available and you may issue to order.

An "L" (lager) item is stock material and this will normally be the default item category for Materials that you stock.

An "N" (non-stock item) on the contrary is purchased directly to Order, so it will generate a Purchase Requisition, you then purchase and receive the material directly into Order balance.

Occasionally, you might want to directly purchase a stock material to the Order, you can replace the Item Category when creating the Order.