pipeline process

[Former Member]

hi

can anyone share about pipeline process?

reg

mrs

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

hi

Pipeline material is material that flows directly into the production process from a pipe (for example, oil) or another kind of conduit (for example,electricity). Unlike consignment material, pipeline material does not have to be required via Purchasing. Pipeline stock is not stock that is physically available in your warehouse. Material from the pipeline is always available, and can be taken from the pipeline in any quantity at any time.

Following are some of prerequisite for pipe line material

Material type should be PIPE

The material is not procured or planned.

The material is not stored and no inventory management is carried

out for it.

The material is not inventoried.

The material can be withdrawn from the pipeline in any quantity

at any time.

also check following thread from SDN only for more info

Vishal...

[Former Member]

Hi MRS,

Pipeline is the special procurement in the SAP MM,

The Pipe line items are managed in Materila type Pipe....and this is only value update & not quantity update

The pipeline material is presume that it is readyly availabe and payment will be done to the vendore on based on the consumption.

For example... electricity, water etc...,

The Pipe line procurement process in SAP as mentioned below

No PO, No GR, No IRMM01- Create Material ---> Material type : PIPE

XK01 u2013 Create Vendor

ME11 - Info category should be Consignment. Tax code should be given

MB1A u2013 Goods issue

Mvt type ; 201P u2013 Consumption for cost center from PIPE

Accounting(FI) Document:

KON u2013 A/c Payable

GBB u2013 Inventory

MRKO u2013 Consignment and Pipe line settlement

Select u2192 Messages ---> Executer

Select the line --> Print / Process

Hope this will help u

Regards

Anand

[Former Member]

Hi MRS

Please find inputs on the Pipeline process

Procurement of Pipeline Materials

Material-specific information including vendor pricing and lead-time from the quotation is captured within master data records.

Pipeline material is directly issued in the plant,then settlement need be carried out.

In some cases QM inspection might be required for the pipeline material, this additional business process is described in the QM in Procurement scenario

Pipeline Withdrawal

You can enter a pipeline withdrawal for an order or for a cost center. Pipeline withdrawals differ from other goods movements in that they are entered with the special stock indicator P.

The withdrawal is valuated at the price defined in the pipeline info record.

A withdrawal from the pipeline results in the following updates in the system:

The pipeline withdrawal results in a vendor liability that must be settled periodically in a similar way to the management of consignment stocks. In the standard system the same account is used for both pipeline and consignment liabilities, but a different pipeline liabilities account can be defined in Customizing.

A consumption history is kept.

The pipeline withdrawal has no effect on existing warehouse stock or on the availability of the material

Pipeline settlement

 You settle pipeline liabilities online as well as on a batch basis.

 When processing online, you can define on the initial screen whether the withdrawals are to be settled or whether the withdrawals to be settled are just to be listed.

 You can inform the vendor periodically about the consumption of pipeline material. The list is restricted to consumption that has not yet been settled.

 You enter the invoice for pipeline liabilities without reference to a purchase order. Debits are posted to the u201CLiabilities from consignment storesu201D G/L account, to which the credits were posted upon consumption of the pipeline material.

 If pipeline liabilities are posted to the same account as consignment liabilities, you have to settle the pipeline and consignment liabilities together.

 If pipeline and consignment liabilities are posted to different accounts, you settle these separately.

 You have the same options for settling pipeline liabilities that you have for settling consignment liabilities.

for addition technical detaisl please refer to the below link

link:[http://help.sap.com/saphelp_45b/helpdata/en/47/60fd8c49f011d1894c0000e829fbbd/frameset.htm]

Regards

Vikrant

[Former Member]

use link for more details

help.sap.com/saphelp_46c/helpdata/en/fd/45c3fe9d6411d189b60000e829fbbd/content.htm

regards

[Former Member]

pipe line process is used for basically utility sector like petroleum,gas etc.

in this case you create material master with selection of Pipeline material

and make inforecord by selecting by info category pipeliene

regards.

[Former Member]

Hi ramesh,

Thanks for your reply, I have overal idea about pipeline process however i need more technical information.

Thanks

mrs

[Former Member]

use link

help.sap.com/saphelp_46c/helpdata/en/fd/45c3fe9d6411d189b60000e829fbbd/content.htm