Service Order - Operations.

Question

Hi Everyone,
I have a scenario here where I need your expert advice.
Make to Order Scenario in PP , where some of the production operations are subcontracted. But here materials will not leave the premises, instead  people from outside will come and do the work (service) on the materials within the shop floor area, like Cleaning Operations.  People who come will work only for some stipulated amount of time and the work will be subcontracted to them.
During normal subcontracting operations a PR will be created when you create a production order.
Similarly is it possible to create a Service PR for the above mentioned kind of operations when a production order get created??
Is it possible to simulate this scenario in standard SAP PP or any configuration changes has to be made??
Any information in this regard will be very helpful..
Pavan

Answer 1

Hi,
In ur case ,Vendor send people and do the work (service) on the materials /equipment within the shop floor area, like Cleaning Operations. So People will work only for some stipulated amount of time and the work will be subcontracted to them.
So you can go for Service Order  or Service PO which serve as agrrement with ur vendor .You can cretae Service PR also.Service PO/Service PR is created with item Category "D" and an account assignment category as per ur requirement like "C" or "F". U can not enter ur material here only u have to maintain short text of material. Example: You want to clean the any equipment and u given contract to your Vendor. Vendor sends quotation mentioning that Rs.100/hr/Man head. Now how you will measure the cleaning activities of equipment? You can pay to contractor based on the hourly basis/ man head spent in cleaning activities. So in this case create the Purchase Order mentioning "Cleaning" in the short text in Item overview(Acc assignment ' F' or “C” or “P” and Item category 'D) and item details " Man Head" Service No , Gross price - Rs.100.00 and unit - hour ( or pick from Service master) and Quantity-number of hours spent by all man head. Once you create Service PR then create Service PO w.r.t Service PR
The steps to create Service PO are:
1) Maintain Item Category as D & account assignment such as Order“F”or slaes order”C”
2) Keep material code field blank.
3) Enter description of service & other fields in the PO Item Overview level. Press Enter.
4) System will prompt you to maintain services at Item Level. Maintain your service master number / service description & other fields (quantity / rate /)
5) Save the PO.
Maintaion the Servive entty sheet(SES) in ML81N w.r.t Service PO.You can cretae "N" number of SES w.r.t to single PO.Then  go for Invioce verifiation MIRO w.r. t. SES and then payment in F-53.
Regards,
Biju K