Pre-blend Material

Hi,
This issue is related with pre-blend material .We are currently using Sales BOM concept.
We have a finished product_" Au201D, which has the components X, Y and Z materials_.
The material "X" has 2 components "S and T ".
So In Create Material BOM (CS01), I used BOM usage 5 . For material "A u201C, I assigned X,Y, and Z .
When you mix X,Y and Z materials , you will get the finished product "A ".
Again for " X " material, i assigned S and T in CS01.
When you mix S and T materials, you will get finished product "X ".
My requirement is that the components costs should be rolled -up to the higher material.
If VPRS is
S = 10
T = 20 then X = 30
Again
X = 30
Y = 20
Z = 10 then A = 60.
This 60 should be posted to Cost of goods account after Post goods issue and again in Invoice (COPA).
This is a proposed solution. For material X we may use Phantom BOM material or non-stock item.
Now we are using this function in the following way:
Material A has the components Y, Z, S and T in CS01. In Delivery the components only posts the Goods issue. The system picks the cost price from the respective components material masters.
Material A is assigned Higher-level material Item category (ZHBM) that is relevant for Price, cost. In schedule line category, no movement type is maintained. So material A Will not issue the goods.
Materials Y, Z,S and T are assigned lower level material Item category ( ZLBM ) which is not relevant for Price , cost. In schedule line category, movement type 601is maintained.
In Delivery document in VL01N, the components only posts the Goods issue. The system picks the cost price from the respective components material masters.
In Invoice, the system calculates the VPRS cost for material "A ". This VPRS is the sum up of the components Y, Z, S, T.
It works fine.
I need a solution for Pre blend material concept,
If you need any clarifications, please let me know
Regards
M. Lakshmi Narasimhan

Dear Chandrasekhar Mantravadi ,
Thanks a lot for your reply.
My Client is a Mining Industry.
They are using material A, which is a Fini material. Material A has the components Y, Z, S, T in CS01.
Now it is working fine. The Components Cost is rolled up to the higher material "A "
But when you mix Materials S and T, you will get a new product "X ". This material is called Pre-blend material.
Why did we use Pre-blend material?
When Printing the BOL, we need to print the material X also in BOL. But you donu2019t see the material S & T physically. Because of
the pre-blend scenario, the delivery documents are no longer accurate or legal for transport. In order to work around this, the
sites are utilizing manual Bills of Lading (BOL).To avoid manual BOL we will go for this solution .
As i mentioned earlier material X has the components S & T. The cost of S & T should be rolled up to X.
Then material A has the components X, Y and Z. The cost of X, Y and Z should be rolled up to A.
I have also suggested the Phantom BOM concept. For material X, i created the Material master record as a Phantom material (In MRP 2 view --> Special procurement 50).
Then i maintained the BOM assignment for X in CS01. But the cost is not rolled up.
If you need more clarifications, please let me know.
Regards
M. Lakshmi Narasimhan

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Typically small files, but lots of them, so in the end they still occupy lots of disk space.
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Project files, including project auto-save files, that are constantly being read and saved as auto-save files and written when saving your edits.
Media files, the original video material ingested from tape or card based cameras. Typically long files, only used for reading, since PR is a non-destructive editor.
Export files, created when the time-line is exported to its final delivery format. These files are typically only written once and often vary in size from several hundred KB to tens of GB.
When you are doubting which category of files to put on which kind of disk, especially when using both SSD's and HDD's, keep in mind that the speed advantage of SSD's over HDD's is most noteworthy with the Media cache & Media cache database. These files are frequently accessed, are small and there are many, so reducing latency and seek times and increasing transfer rates pays off by putting these on a SSD, rather than on a HDD, even if it is a raid0. Export files can go to the slowest volume on your system, since you only export once. To help you decide, I have added priority rank-numbers for speed, with 1 for the fastest volume and 5 for the least speed-demanding category.
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Well, in the benchmark tests we have not seen any noticeable difference between SSD and HDD in terms of performance, but logic dictates that there should be a small difference in performance when the volume used for media cache is a SSD, because of the much faster access time and lower latency compared to a conventional disk. If it is noticeable, it is specifically on this volume with the media cache and media cache database, due to the large amount of small files that need to be accessed and written. This argument does not apply to the media volume with a limited number of files, that are very big in size.

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