Practical problem in oil industry

Question

Hi,
We are facing one practical problem in oil industry.
We are using base oil as a raw material. After adding additives to the base oil it will become semifinish material.
This semifinish material will become finish material when it is packed in packing material like drum, bottles of different sizes, i.e., same semifinished material will become different finish material depending on packing material.
Drums are used to sell to the customer as well as used to store in case there is no order. Bottles are used to sell only.
If in case of shortage of semifinish material in the process (which happens practically), they are transferring the oil from drum to bottles to fulfil the requirement. There is no specific period of transfer. This may happen in this month or after six month. In this case the drum will become empty and reused.
In SAP point of view this drum need to go back to storage location.
Pls tell me how to map this requirement.
Regards,
Rajesh

Answer 1

Rajesh,
In your case say for example unpacking the material from drum and repacking to bottles, this can be through a Process order/Production order which ever you are using and you can use a specific order say for example ZP01.
Here you can have a BOM with Finished material number(oil in drum) as a Input component along with bottle and other packing materials as required, you also need to add drum in negative quantity in the bom, so that you can recieve back the drum as bi-product. Use a routing/reciepe to capture your operation cost on pumping out oil from drum and filling the bottles. Have this combination as Production Version. Configure the order type paramters in COR4/OPL8 to have Production version selection manual. This means when you create an order, you can manually select the production version which is meant for unpacking and repacking.
Hope this helps...
Regards,
Prasobh