POD in consignment

[former_member233434]

Dear Experts,

Our company has a new business now. Generally, it's like a consignment sales process. What is special is the material we're selling, LPG, a kind of liquid fuel. LPG will evaporate during transportation. So generally we need to do POD. But in the consignment fill-up stage, we don't need to do billing, which means POD is not possible. We bill the customers on a month basis. As we deliver LPG to a customer tens of times in a month, it's not practical  to note down the lost in each delivery manually and do POD at the month-end when we bill the customer. We now have a solution, that is we only use the quantity that actually arrive to the customer in the sales process, then handle the lost in physical counting. But the sales cost will be inaccurate as the lost could be several tons in a month for a customer.

So could you please advise if there's any proper way in doing it? Thanks.

Best regards,

[Former Member]

Hey,

Why don't you introduce QCI into your system which will calculate the exact loss or the fuel

compression due to climate or due to pressure.  It's widely used in IS-OIL processes.

Let me know if you need any information on QCI (Quantity Conversion Interface).  I could help you on this.

Regards,

Sailesh Sistla

[former_member233434]

Dear Sailesh,

It's an intereting topic. Could you please share more about it? Thanks.

Best regards,

[csaba_szommer]

Could not a simple (cumulative) scrapping be used e.g. with MIGO/MB1A+551W? In this case it is possible to define the G/L account and also the cost and profit centers.

[former_member233434]

Dear Csaba,

Yes. We can handle the stock in this way. But, in this case, the sales cost will be inaccurate because the quantity lost will not be included in it. That's what w're concerning about.

Best regards,

[csaba_szommer]

What exactly do you expect from the POD?

In the standard POD process the differences can be reported but then they have to be handled manually.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_470/helpdata/en/f2/0d4660143411d3b481006094b9b9dd/content.htm?frameset=/...

(=What's the difference if you do something manually with POD or without POD?)

[former_member233434]

Csaba,

When we have the POD, then the quantity of PGI is 'quantity to bill + lost quantity' and the sales cost will be exactly the same as that. But if we just handle the lost stock with a movement type, the sales cost will only include the quantity to bill. There'll be big difference in sales cost then.

Best regards,

[csaba_szommer]

As you cannot manage this GI via the consignment fill-up and consignment issue deliveries, you have only the option to use a manual solution. If the physical inventory and scrapping are not acceptable then still you can consider moving the stock back to your storage location and consume it via a 'technical' sales process. (e.g. post GI with mvt 231 / mvt 251, you can create a technical SO/delivery in order to be able to post GI and then use POD for the full quantity; you can also manage the sales process with a "technical customer"), etc. (here the main question is what is acceptable to your FICO colleagues and auditors)

[former_member233434]

Thanks, Csaba. We'll try if it's acceptable.

[Lakshmipathi]

Normally LPG would be delivered in a cylinder and we pay for a cylinder only.  This being the case, how your client are delivering the LPG?

G. Lakshmipathi

[former_member233434]

Dear Lakshmipathi,

As customers like these are bulk users, we deliver LPG to them by tank, which deliver 10 - 20 tons at a time.

Best regards,