Consume components that are consigned in service order

Question

Dear CS gurus,
Always wanted to know if this was possible:
Current scenario
1. We need to track materials (spare parts to repair machines) that are moved to specific customer locations. In order to do that, we are using consignment fill-up (via SD).
NOTE: We cannot use SLoc to track these stock because there are just too many locations to track and a more feasible way is to use the consignment method.
2. Since those items are actually spare parts to repair machines (the machines are our asset), we will make a service order (internal work order) to capture cost of repair. We need to indicate the materials that we will use in the Components tab. Since those materials are consigned to customer's site, we won't find those items in the warehouse.
As far as I know, we cannot consume stock that are consigned ... only those in the warehouse.
The current practice is to perform a Consignment pick-up (via SD) to bring the stock from consignment back to warehouse first. Then create the service order and maintain the materials to be used in the Components tab.
My question:
1. Is there anyway to actually consume the consignment stock instead of having duplicate steps as mentioned above?
2. If not, is there a better solution for the above scenario?

Answer 1

Hi
If you consume spares against a Service order, system will automatically book the cost to that order.
1. Move the spares to the Customer site (Consignment stock)
2. Create a Service order when the spares are consumed
3. issue the spares against the service order MB11, 261W mvt.
4. Confirm the time
Labour and Material cost will be booked against the Service order.
Hope this is your requirement.
I Do not agree with your statement "If I were to use MIGO to "consume" the material, I would not be able to collect the cost for the repairs of the machine."
Babu