Material types in intercompany/external scenario

Hi everybody,
we have 5 vertically integrated plants on-hand, i.e. there is one assembly plant which is supplied by two others, which themselves are supplied by the remaining two. Each supplying plant delivers not only to the plant "above" it, but also to external customers. This means that its finished goods are semi-finished/raw materials for the plant "above" and finished goods for the external customer.
Now our problem is, that engineering adds a flavor to the whole story. They don't allow for multiple material numbers, if it is the same part. By this they want to prevent the situation that every plant needs to maintain their material master (otherwise I could maintain my material locally and buy/sell the goods to the plant above). Instead we're supposed to use intercompany stock transfer orders with the same material number.
Did anybody face that situation before? What are the best practices in this situation? Do I create a z-type that allows for all views to be maintained? I'm kind of lost here...
any help is greatly appreciated!
BR,
Bobby

Hi Bobby,
I am working for a Retail which has more or less a similiar requirement.
You should create a Z type material with Semifinished materials views and Finished materials. This will allow you to have production and sales views for all materials. Basic Data will be common for all plants but then you will have specific sales - procurement - MRP - Quality and Accounting views based on Plant and Sales organization.
You will have to be very carefull with data migration (As every plant will have it material master and it will be difficult to find out which are similar materials!!!!!)
In order to plan the different materials you should configure the last finished material as supplied by the "Supplying plant" and the same for dependant materials!.
You can do this with "Special Procurement in MRP 2 View".
You will have to configure a Special procurement key for each supplying plant!.
SAP Customizing Implementation Guide --> Materials Management --> Consumption-Based Planning -->Master Data -->Define Special Procurement Types
Special procuremente
Procurement = F
Special procurement = U
Plant = "Supplying Plant"
So for an intermediate plant you will see in the MD04 the demand comming from you sales orders as well as the demand of the upper plants as stock transport order.
You should assign to each plant a Client so as to match FI documents and invoicing.
Kind regards,
Federico

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