Component allocation of material components in routing

Question

Dear Sap Gurus,
I am having a finished product in which it contains rawmaterials for making but it in my routing i am having operations of 10, 20,30,40,50,60 ( 10-shearing, 20-bending, 30-welding, 40-grinding, 50-bending, 60-grinding )
but in my routing doing compoent allocation i am using materials from bom which contains components of 10,20,30 for routing operation of 10 and the output of 10 is the input of 20 routing operation so how can i give component allocation  in routing whether i should give for routing operation of 10 the bom components so that it can take for routing operation of 20,30,40,50.
whether my procedure is correct or any body can help me how to proceed the above problem.
regards,
muralidhar.t

Answer 1

Murlidhar,
First of all tell me one thing, are you going to identify the inprocess material with a separate material or not?
If you are going to do it, then your query can be answered.
If component ABC is allocated to operation no. 0010, it gets changed to PQR, then you need to first create the code for PQR. Then do GR as a byproduct with movement type 531 & again do the GI with movement type 261 against that order itself.
It's a quite tedious process & normally no one goes for this.
It's better you deal to the initial component & the final product only. If you opt out for in process material codification then in future where there are several stages of the process, you find it difficult & next to impossible.
Go for that if it is having major impact on the process (normally it never be).
Hope this helps you.
SmanS
Edited by: SAP PP Consultant on Mar 30, 2009 12:59 PM