Pipeline material in Network order

[Former Member]

We have requirement to consume material type = 'Pipeline' in network order by backflushing it, while confirming the network (CN25).

I have completed following steps but system still not functioning as desired.

1. Defined production BOM of product which contains pipeline materials (BOM item category = N).
2. Assign components of this BOM to std network (transaction code = CN02)
3. Upon creation of network (copy from std network), system copies all component but does not copy special stock indicator for pipeline (SOBKZ= P).
4. I can not populate this field, since is grayed out.
5. While confirming this network via transaction code CN25, I can populate SOBKZ field manually, then system works w/o any problem.
6. We are using this functionality in production order.

Experts,

Could you please guide I am missing something? my requirement is to consume  automatically Pipeline materials while confirming network.

If std functionality is not possible, is there any user exit/ BADI?

Please see attachment for more info.

[Former Member]

Hi,

See the below link which would help to understand and handling of pipe line materials.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_46c/helpdata/pt/fd/45c3fe9d6411d189b60000e829fbbd/content.htm

In my previous project we never used/placed these kind of materials from project. However, our PP team used to find out the daily/weekl consumption statement basing on production process consumption. I may be wrong but with limited experience on this materials nothing can be offered.

You can check with your MM team.

Regards,

Sudhakar

[Former Member]

Hi Sudhakar thanks for reply.

We have pipeline materials in production process and it's worked as desired. But some product does not have in house production, but something is done onsite during project execution. We want to capture consumption of material.

We are aware of pipe material functionality but some how it is not working for network as it works for production order.

Anurag