Empty packaging material return

Hi,
We are working in a beer manufacturing industry....here manufactured beer is packed in to three types of packaging...
1. Can
2. Bottle
3. Keg...
So basically we have three finished codes..each finished material is having in the BOM components as bulk beer and other packaging materials like CAN, Bottle, keg.... now filled finished product sales is done...after sales then after some time they return the empty containers like bottle and Keg to plant..which are used again for re filling.... for this return they are paid money... now how to map this in to SAP....
what we proposed is when the empty packaging material comes make a manual purchase order with packaging material code and qty then do GR with 101 movement..then subsequently make the payment against the PO.....
is this the correct solution???..can somebody share ur previous experiences who worked on this scenario...is there any SAP best practices available for this scenario ???...
Thanks
Kumar

I think this situation can be handled by Returnable Packaging - Sales.
I haven't worked with returnable packaging, But I can assume your business process goes to returnable packaging.
Read the SAP help, if your business process is different, then you can elaborate.
Regards
Dev

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When we purchase consumables material it come in packaging material from vendor.
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I hope you are looking for packaging instruction for vendor.
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hi,
this is to inform you that,
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