How to configure jobwork process in Co

Question

Hi,
In our business process in one of operation we need to send the material to jobwork and client want to track that amount and want to include in cost rollup?
In out scenerio, first two operations will be held inside and third operation will be sent to vendor, after it returns to company 4th operation will be happend again in company.
Some times company will pay the amount based on fixed charges and some times based on activities performed.
And how to configure this scenario in costing.
Thanks
Sateesh

Answer 1

I hear you describing a process that SAP calls External Processing.
We used it in one plant years ago.  the operations list in the Routing included steps for work in internal workcenters and one step was done in a work center that represented an outside process.
The operation had control key PP02 Routing/Ref. op. set - external process
For that operation - the details have a section titled: External processing.
This included fields for :                                                                               
Purchasing info rec.      Purch. organization    0610        
Material group       
Purchasing group
Vendor               120945                                             
Plnd delivery time   10  Days                                           
Price unit           1                 Cost Element         513051      
Net price            0.48 ;                                                                               
I don't remember all the details of setting it up, it did cost correctly though
Issue - the PO were not always correctly recieved, make final settlement of the production order an issue and we were not able to CLSD the order because of open PO on the Production order.
Issue  - the material was not trackable (could be the way we did it, may be something to do about it) but when the External operation was reached, the Production stopped, the material went out and waited for the return.  The material at the vendor was part of WIP not a stock item in a separate location.
Because of these two issues, we discontinued the practice and changed to standard subcontract (Spec Prc KEy 30) with a separate material number for the material that went to the vendor and a different number for the material on the purchase order that was returned.
hope this is of help