Projects are linked via materials to Sales and Distribution, Materials Management (Purchasing and Inventory Management), and to Production Planning and Control.
Assigning Material Components to Activities Manually
Objective
After completing this lesson, you will be able to assign material components and procurement types manually
Integration with Other Applications
Procurement Types
The simplest scenario involves assigning material components directly to a network or directly to a network activity in the material overview screen. Each material component assigned in the material overview screen contains detail screens which define information on procurement.
The item detail screen includes the Procurement Parameters tab that contains information on the item category, the characteristics of the material, and the account assignment of the component.
Selecting the Procurement Type (1)
Procurement Type 2
Item category
Stock item or non-stock item
Material
Sales order or collective stock or both
Internal or external procurement or both
With or without mixed MRP
Project definition
With or without project stock
Sales order
With or without sales order stock
BOM
Special procurement key
The way in which components are procured depends on both the item category and the attributes of the material. The material master stores information in the following situations:
The procurement indicator in the material master defines whether the material is externally purchased, or manufactured internally, or both.
Individual or collective requirements (or both) are possible for the material.
The material can be procured in advance.
The control data of the project definition determines whether stocks can be built up for your project.
The account assignment category of the sales order determines whether sales order or project stocks can be built up.
Using a special procurement key within the bill of material can specify that the components are procured independently of the material master settings.
Procurement Indicator
The procurement indicator helps you to assign components to the activity. It contains default values for determining the stock and the procurement type. You can use a procurement indicator to prevent additional dialog boxes from appearing during the material assignment.
In the network profile, you can propose a procurement indicator that is defaulted in the component assignment.