Best Practice - MIGO & MIRO

[former_member955560]

Hello,

I am new to using SAP and would like some suggestions on a best practice to use in the following situation:

• A Purchase Order is setup to purchase 1,000 gallons of "Product X" during the month of August.
• Product X will arrive at our facility in five shipments of 200 gallons each during the month of August.
• Our company will prepay an invoice based on a provisional price for the 1,000 gallons as all product will be received in August.
• A final invoice will be sent in September to true up based on final pricing.
• We take title of Product X once delivered.

My question pertains to what is the best practice to use in MIGO, knowing I will have a final MIRO to do later on.

As we will receive five separate bills of lading, and will want to track that detail by each of the five shipments, there appear to be two options:

• Option 1: Record five separate MIGO goods receipts.
• Option 2: Record one MIGO goods receipt, and reference all BOL's.

For Option 1... I like the idea of this way because it's cleaner to track the GR's in the system. Also, deliveries will occur on multiple dates, and sometimes unloads cross months (meaning a shipment meant for Aug will actually deliver in Sep).

Now if I choose Option 1, what are the implications....

• Will I be able to do just one MIRO against all five GR's once the final invoice comes in? If so, what are the steps? Or will I have to do five separate MIRO's against the five separate GR's in this example?
• Invoice # and BOL # would be the two important ones, are there any other handy fields to track?
• Which text fields do you use in MIGO?

Thank you for sharing.