storage location and plant relationship

[Former Member]

please any body tell me that can i assign one location to more than one plant within the same company code . if yes than please give me business scenario and than why?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Yes you can, there are many scenarios.

1. You have a couple of plants in different locations and the customer returns has to be stored in a particular storage location, then we need to assign the storage location to different plants.

2. It is not mandatory that one storage location will only store the goods manufactured in one plant, it can store the goods manufatured in multiple plants.

As I said, there are many scenario's.

Prase

[Former Member]

I beg to differ on this.

If you are talking about "Location" then it is possible. i.e. One Location can be assigned to more than one plant of the same company code.

<b>Location</b> - A location allows a plant to be classified according to spatial or situation criteria.

The following master data objects can be assigned to these locations:

Asset master records of Asset Management

pieces of equipment

functional locations

work centers

production resources/tools

Locations are used for informative assignment only. You can only use locations to structure a matchcode or as parameter criteria in reporting.You cannot derive any functionality from locations in terms of hierarchies, etc.

If you use Asset Management in your system, you can assign each fixed asset to one of these locations.

Since plant maintenance usually structures assets more precisely than Asset Accounting, no check is made to establish whether the asset location and the location of the PM object that indicates this asset via the asset number, are the same.

You can also assign a location to each work center by maintaining the work centers. Here too, the work center location and the location of the PM object are to be regarded as separate.

<b>But, if you are talking about "Storage Location", then the answer is No</b>. Storage location is a sub-set of Plant. One storage location is assigned to only one plant. A Plant can have more than one Storage locations.

<b>Storage Location</b>

A storage location is the place where stock is physically kept within a plant.

A storage location has the following attributes:

There may be one or more storage locations within a plant.

A storage location has a description and at least one address.

It is possible to store material data specific to a storage location.

Stocks are managed only on a quantity basis and not on a value basis at storage location level.

Physical inventories are carried out at storage location level.

A storage location can be assigned to a warehouse number in the Warehouse Management System. You can assign more than one storage location to the same warehouse number within a plant.

Storage locations are always created for a plant.

Hope this helps

[Former Member]

hi sir,

In real business scenario it is possible that we can store goods of two different plant at the same location and we can also store returns of two different plants at a single storage location . So how we will address this problem . plz get back to me as soon as possible

[Former Member]

Hi

I can understand your querry. In real scenario, we do store materials of two different Plants in one physical storage location. But this is not the case in SAP. However, your requirement can be fulfilld and configured in SAP like below:

Path: sproimgenterprise structure -->define --> Material management --> Maintain storage location

here, You have to create Storage location, say S001 = Saleable for Plant PLT1 and also for plant PLT2, create a Stor Loc named S001 = Saleable. Maintain the address data etc same for Storage Loc S001 as in PLT1 and PLT2.

<b>Thus the Storage location S001 = Saleable is assigned to two different plants PLT1 and PLT2 ( within same co code)</b>

Hope this clears your issue.

[Manoj_Mahajan78]

Akash,

Storage location and plant relationship is many to many..

Regds

MM

[former_member183879]

It is possible.

You can assign same storage location to more than one plant of the same cc.

Reason :

There can be m ultiple plants which are manufacturing units

Similarly, there can be multiple storage locations which are storage locations for specific material(each material stored in specific storage locn)

Now irrespective of which plant manufactuers a material, it should reach the storage location assigned for that material.

Hope this clarifies the doubt.

Reward if this helps.