In House Manufacture of Tools

[Former Member]

Dear Gurus,

We have 3 Plants scattered over different regions. All the Requirements of Tools are Manufactured inhouse in Plant 1.

We would like to know the time taken to manufacture a tool along with materials consumed to manufacture the tool.

Finally the tool has to come to Inventory & the tool may be sent to other plants also.

Please let us know the  material type, process etc.,

Thanks in advance.

[svs_sap · Accepted solution]

Hi Hariprasad,

You want to manufacture a tool, but you not mentioned whether you want to also consume this tool in orders as PRT. So considering that you want to manufacture, inventorise and transfer tool in your plant.

You can achieve this by semifinished material type with procurement type E and maintain the bill of material for the components you consume for this materials, as good as you maintain semi finished materials for production.

You have to maintain all master data like, material master, BOM, Routing etc.

In case you do not want to have this material as semi finished, you can create this as an equipment and maintain equipment BOM and create work order. As done in plant mantenence activity.

Regards,

Sharat

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Dear Mr.Sharat,

Thanks for your reply,

The tool will be used for manufature of a FG product.  Please let me know whether it is better suited to create a material master with material tye as semifinished, create order, issue bom,

Inventorise.    or   Please let me know how the work order is creaed under Plant maintenance activity.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Hari,

If that tool is used for FG product in plant 1 as well as other plant, finally it is getting consumed as a PRT.

If you want to capture the cost of manufacturing the tool , then you should consider that as a SFG material and it must have BOM and routing and capture the cost in production order.

and then you can do either sales or STO- stock transport order to other plants.

Check with your business process.

Santhosh

[svs_sap · Accepted solution]

Hi Hariprasad,

If tool is used for FG poroduct and you want to show this in the production order of FG then you can use it as PRT - production resource tool for which you have a material type FHME (if i am not wrong). But before you want to declare it as PRT, you wanted to manufacture it and inventories. So to manufacture, you have to define it as semi finished is better, because you want to maintain components for it.

Then you can not define PRT for this. If you define this as semi finished then you can not include this as component in FG bom, because you do not want to comsume it. You just want to show it as tool used to produce FG. Then you can define this as a document material in FG bom just for information.

Check this, whether it is ok for your business scenario.

If you do not want to manufacture this tool, then you can define this as PRT and assign it in routing.

Best regards,

Sharat

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Again thanks for your reply

1) what i under stood is,  To manufacture TOOL i can use material type HALB (semi finished). Create BOM, ROUTING for this semifinished material.  Inventorise.

2) Can i create this semifinished material as PRT in fg master.  This material is not consumed for order but this is a Production resource/tool which is used in manufacture of FG.

3) The same semifinished material (tool) i can do stock transfer to other plants.

OR

1) Shall i use material type FHME for tool.  create bom & routing for this. 

2) Release production order.  Issue bom, confirm operations

3) Inventorise.

Please let me know which is better.

Thanks in advance.

[svs_sap · Accepted solution]

Hi Hari,

I can understand your requirement is combination of two scenario.

You want use tool as PRT and wants to manufacture also. This scenario can be achieved as explained below,

Option1:If you do not want to manufacture tool, but wants to show it as an inventory. You can create material with material type FHMI and get the stock for it. And use this PRT in routing of FG part. But you are missing here manufacturing of tool.

Option2: Create material as FHMI and mention it as PRT and use as told in option1. Then allow BOM and routing creation for this material type, in path OP50 and OS24 transaction. Then you can maitain BOM and routing for this. Check with costing, how they capture the cost for this material type, they have to include this in costing. Then this material is as good as semi finished and PRT. Then your purpose gets solved. Have a check with costing and check once the cost captured for this option2.

Best regards,

Sharat

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Mr.Sharath,

Option 2 is really helpful,  anyhow will check with my costing.

I think this will definitely solve my problem.

Thanks a lot.