
If you want to use this special procurement type, you must maintain a special procurement key by choosing 'planning plant -> production plant' for each relationship. In this type of special procurement, material components are produced in a plant other than the planning plant. Therefore, phantom assemblies pass the dependent requirements directly to the lower BOM level. However, a phantom assembly is not actually produced. These materials are grouped and managed together for a certain reason (for example, from the engineering point of view). The following special procurement types are defined in the SAP standard system:įor the procurement type, "in-house production"Ī phantom assembly is a logical grouping of materials. You assign this special procurement key to the appropriate material in the material master record. You can do this by creating a special procurement key using the stock transfer special procurement type and by selecting the indicator for withdrawal from alternative plant. In this case, the material can be procured by stock transfer because with planned independent requirements (customer requirements, in this case), procurement you cannot use withdrawal from an alternative plant. The same material, on the other hand, is also sold from stock to customers, who need the material as a replacement part, for example. It is procured from an alternative plant if no dependent requirements exist for the material. Example 2 (special procurement keys with other indicators)Ī material appears in several BOMs as a component because it is assembled in finished products in in-house production.

If a material is to be procured via a consignment order, you assign the special procurement type "consignment" to the material in the material master record.

The procurement type "external procurement" is defined for raw materials. Example 1 (special procurement keys without other indicators) You can now, also define how the system treats the material as a component during the BOM explosion using control indicators. The special procurement type always refers to a procurement type.

In this step, you define the special procurement keys which as well as the procurement type control the procurement and storage of a material.
