Subcontracting Process for Material Testing in SAP

[Shroff]

Dear All,

Greetings for the day,

We have a Requirement, wherein Business want to send untested Material (Material code A) to vendor for the testing purpose. Once materials are tested, vendor send them back to the plant and business want to receive them under the Tested material code (Material code B),

Following is the step-by-step scenario.

1) let's say plant have sent a PO of 10 Untested material to Vendor for testing. Out of which 8 materials testing was successful and 2 materials failed in testing.

2) Upon Goods receipt, 8 quantities should go to Material code B (Tested material) and 2 quantities should go to Material code A (Untested material).

3) Plant wants to pay vendor for testing all the 10 materials, as vendor have performed testing on all the 10 materials out of which (8 passed and 2 failed)

Is this scenario possible with Subcontracting process?

[KumaresanBalakrishnan]

To me, this is not subcontracting process.

Definition of Subcontracting process " Subcontracting allows you to order a product from a supplier who requires certain components to manufacture this product. The components are provided by the ordering party. They are consumed or transformed during the production." from SAP help https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SUPPLIER_RELATIONSHIP_MANAGEMENT/5cd86364e18a49c6a01a79557b61416a/1c26...

In your case, there is no manufacturing/production is happening. Also vendor is not consuming the components. 

Can you please help me to understand the rationale for using different material codes for un tested and tested materials? 

I feel, the correct process can be like below

1. Creating a service PO to Vendor to provide the service. 

2. Have a vendor specific storage location. move the untested materials to the vendor storage location once the untested materials sent to vendor. In that way you will know how many materials are there in vendor location.

3. Once the vendor completed the testing, before doing the goods receipt for the service PO. Make sure you are moving all the successful materials from vendor storage location to actual storage location in unrestricted stock. failed materials to blocked stock. 

4. Pay the vendor based on the service PO.

[TobiaszWegrzynski]

Have you thought about setting up a second order item for a service that you can use to pay the balance for the 2 items?