Linked Materials in MM

Question

Hi all
We have a business scenario where we currently purchase and sell a product as one item (let us say that it is a notebook in a box), but we have just been advised by HMRC that both the notebook and box need to have separate commodity codes as the box can be used to hold items other than the notebook.
We now have the requirement that we need to deal with two separate products, both inbound and outbound from our warehouse, so we cannot use a kitting or sub-contracting process.  We are thinking of using cross-selling in SD to link the two products.  This will work fine in MM as long as a Sales Order is our start point.  We'd have 2 items on an SO and MRP would generate requirements for both.  However, SD is not always our start point.  We could also generate planned independent requirements, or create manual purchase requisitions.
So my question is this: Is there any way to link materials in MM so that we always procure the items together?
Cheers
Matt

Answer 1

Hi, Like when you have SD in Picture then you do not have problem, Right?
Similarly for planned independent requirements also you have to give manual Input depending on planning, so I am not able to see problem here also,
Similarly when you are making manual purchase requisitions then there also you can have as many items as per your requirement,
So what kind of linkage you are looking for, where is the linkage if you are telling "We'd have 2 items on an SO and MRP would generate requirements for both"
I think same functionality of 2 items you can adopt for PIR as well as Manual purchase requisitions.
Note: This Kind of Scenarios are normally addressed with creation of BOM functionality.