Carrying out Subcontracting Solution Process

During the MRP run, the system checks whether current material demand can be covered by current inventory and expected material receipts. In a regenerative MRP run, the system plans all materials, irrespective of whether they have been changed since the last MRP run. In a net change MRP run, the system only includes materials that have been changed since the previous planning run in the new planning run. If current demand is not covered, the system creates purchase requisitions.

This app can create and schedule a job executing your MRP runs. To automate the planning process, the MRP run must be carried out regularly, so you can use this app to create a job that performs this task. This reduces your workload by running the task smoothly in the background.

You can perform the following tasks if the role Production Planning - MRP Runs is assigned to your user:

• Create and schedule jobs for your MRP runs. You can define:
  • Description, start date, start time, and recurrence of the MRP run
  • Specific control parameters for the MRP run
  • Planning the scope of the MRP run
• Monitor the jobs and display information, such as the status, planned start, end, and duration. In the Job Details screen, you can display a log with information on the planning run.
• Cancel the job.

This app allows you to find, display, and change Bills Of Material (BOM). The BOM contains the components to be provided and facilitates the entry of a subcontract purchase requisition or purchase order.

With the Manage Purchase Orders (F0842) app, you can manage purchase orders to ensure that you receive the ordered items on time, at the correct location, and in the required quantity. With this app, you can manually order materials for stock or direct consumption and services. The displayed list of purchase orders on the initial screen is based on the header level of the Purchase Order (PO), so the information shown relates to the entire PO. On the overview, you can immediately see the number of overdue items for each PO. Depending on the PO status, you can still make changes, such as adding or deleting items or changing the purchase order quantity.

You create a subcontracting PO item using the item category L (Subcontracting).

The L (Subcontracting) item category determines that you have to provide components to manufacture a material you want to order.

The use of the L item category has the following effects on a purchase order item:

• You can create the purchase order item with or without a material master record. If you create a purchase order item with a material number, specifying an account assignment category is optional.
• You cannot change the goods receipt indicator. This means that you must post a goods receipt against the purchase order. However, you can deselect the invoice receipt indicator.
• A non-valuated goods receipt is not possible.
  Note

  Item categories cannot be changed or redefined.

You can display and maintain the components of a subcontracting item on the schedule line items level.

If you change the purchase order or schedule line quantity, the quantities of the components to be provided are changed proportionally, provided you have not set the Fixed Quantity indicator.

If you change the delivery date, the requirement dates for the components will be recalculated.

The Monitor Subcontracting Documents app enables you as a Purchaser to monitor subcontracting orders using filter criteria, such as subcontractor, component, material group, assembly, and plant.

With Subcontracting Network View, you can get a better process transparency of MRP-generated items when monitoring your subcontracting documents.

• Effectively monitor the subcontracting process for purchasing document items generated by MRP.
• View precisely where selected MRP-generated items are currently in process within the subcontracting network.
• Display details such as which components were supplied and from which supplier or plant.
• Quickly identify which organization handles the next assembly step and what components are involved.

The Subcontracting Cockpit enables you, as an Inventory Manager, to monitor the stock and requirements of components per subcontractor using specific filter criteria, such as subcontractor, plant, component, assembly, and material group.

You can calculate the stock balance at the component level and navigate to the Stock/Requirements List.

At the purchasing document item level, you can create a delivery of components or directly post goods issues.

With the Manage Outbound Deliveries app (F0867A), you can display and manage your outbound deliveries, including the deliveries of subcontracting components.

Choose each delivery to see its details, such as its weight and volume.

You can post a goods issue for delivery depending on the status of the current goods issue. If you need to make corrections to delivery, you can quickly reverse the goods issue by posting and editing the respective documents.

You can apply these actions to all selected deliveries at once.

For deliveries that need to be picked, you can perform this step on the outbound delivery level, where you can directly access the linked Pick Outbound Delivery app.

You use the Post Goods Movement app (MIGO) to post a goods receipt for an ordered material with reference to a subcontracting item.

The system automatically posts the components' consumption. If the actual quantity of components consumed differs from the proposal, you can adjust it. Subsequently, this is also possible.

You use the Create Supplier Invoice app (F0859) to enter and post a supplier invoice for a subcontracting purchase order or scheduling agreement.

The system proposes all items corresponding to the referenced purchasing documents in the item list and the quantities and amounts of all items for which goods receipts were posted but not fully invoiced.