Packing Material as separate inventory & billable item

[Former Member]

Hello SAP community friends,

We have a requirement in one of our business units that packaging materials need to be tracked, delivered, and billed to the customer. As soon as a Sales Order is created with the deliverable item (MTO usually), a PReq (sales order acct assignment) for the packaging material should also be created since this item is purchased. Do we need to add the packing material as a separate item in the sales order with a suitable item cat and requirement generation of its own?

The packaging item is then procured from the external vendor by the time the main material is produced and readied for shipment. It is required to capture the packaging material separately in the Delivery with the usual PGI process to reduce the inventory. However, an HU should also be generated with the Sales item and packing material to track the shipment / delivery process. Is there a way we can have both kinds of functionality at the same time?

Finally, the packaging material will be billed to the customer with the main item.

Was wondering if any of you have handled similar functionality in your projects and would like to know your thoughts on probable design options. Is there any scope for using Packing instructions + proposal in the above?

Regards

Ari

[Former Member]

Hi Arijit,

We have the same scenario.

You can use automatic packaging in deliveries, but in this process, the items for packing material  are created within the delivery, not in the sales order.

Check this link

And this one :Customising settings for automatic packaging in deliveries - ERP SCM - SCN Wiki

Regards

Guillermo

[Former Member]

Hello Guillermo

Thanks for your response. I was wondering if you needed to trigger any requirements (PReq) based for the packaging materials?

Thanks

Arijit

[jobis]

Hi Arijith,

How are you planning to bill the customer for the packing material ?

You want to show it as a separate item in invoice, or show it as a charge in the invoice output, by having it added into your main items pricing ?

If you want it to be a separate item, then you can have it from the sales order level, there by trigerring the PR in sales order. In that case, you will have challenge with creating handling unit.

If you do not want to have the packing material as a separate line item, but want to trigger the PR at sales order, then you may have to use a special program to create the Purchase order.

Regards

Jobi