ME2ON cannot be used with Account Assignment "M" in Subcontracting PO

[michelle_low]

Hi all,

Would like to check how could we resolve the followings?

When the subcontracting orders are account-assigned to a sales order, the components are not transferred (using a transfer posting) to the "stock of material provided to vendor" but are directly withdrawn from the sales order stock the time of the goods receipt. The material manufactured is also posted to the sales order stock. In such circumstances, a Subcontracting PO with Account Assignment Category "M" will not appear in ME2ON because no need to transfer stock to Subcontractor.

How could user generate the mandatory forms? E.g. Delivery output form that is needed for the shipment to happen? We need to trigger all these forms from delivery order. The user will not be able to do so since now Delivery Order is skipped due to there is no more usage of ME2ON. Or is there any possibility to generate the outbound Delivery Order for subcontract PO besides ME2ON? Thanks!

[DominikTylczyn]

Hello @michelle_low 

As per note 3332290 - ME2ON cannot be used with Account Assignment "M" in Subcontracting PO you can't use ME2ON for sales order special stock.

SAP Help Subcontracting for Sales Order Stock and Project Stock recommends:

Since the components are not transferred to the "stock of material provided to vendor", we recommend that you use a transfer posting to transfer the provided components to a new storage location (for example, 9999). This enables you to obtain an overview of those stocks that are physically located at the subcontractor. This information is particularly important when you carry out a physical inventory of the sales order stocks and project stocks.

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If you go this way, you will get the visibility of sales order special stock components provided to a vendor. Also you could use stock transport orders and outbound deliveries to manage transfers to this new storage location. However as far as I know, you'd need to manage the transfers manually as they don't link to subcontracting POs in standard. 

Best regards

Dominik Tylczynski

[michelle_low]

Hi Dominik,

Thanks for the suggestion! Will check it out.