Urgent-material quantity knows at GR

Question

Hi gurus,
My client's product say material XYZ comes through bags.And they want to keep inventory for these bags also and price of these bags should be include in XYZ material.
Scenario is that while placing PO for 1000kg of XYZ they doesnt know in how much bags this XYZ will come.
They know at the time of GR.
So,is there any facility in MIGO where you can add these bags to XYZ material stock account while giving PO reference?
And how will I get inventory for these bags?
Pl help

Answer 1

Hi,
    your scenario is the sale of empty bags. It is similar to the sale of empty oil drums, cartoons,boxes etc, etc.
why you want to load the cost of empty bags into your material stock account?
your vendor will not be charging you separately for the material that is coming in these bags and the cost of the bags. bags are packing material for your material .
if he charges you extra, then in PO pricing procedure you can have the condition for packing and forwarding.
from your question it doesnot appears to be this case, as at the time of PO you donot know your material will be shipped in how many bags.
You have two situations :-
1. You have a bags stock which is available in physically but not in system and you want to dispose it.
you should use 202, to get the bags in stock. You will have to create a material number for the bags with appropriate MAP (confirm with your accounts). I have also seen organizations using 561, 552 etc. Nothing wrong in using 531 if it hits the correct G/L account,concept wise 531 is not the right movement.
mvt 561, 552, 531 are movement type with 'nowhere' concept. by using these we are writing on stock from "nowhere" and so you will have to balance out the posting somehow?
The movement type to be finalized will depend on the G/L account it hits in your system and the thoughts of your accounts department.
The most important thing to do is to find out from your financial department where the stock value is supposed to come from. If they want to use a cost centre then a 202 is fine (even if a 201 was never used).
Also, check with accounts how they want to sell it ( as scrap sale ) ?
2. other way. I think at the time of GR for material itself you can create the stock of bags with 501. However, I have seen organizations follow the process 1 every time they want to sell scrap.
This is a very tricky process in organizations and accounts, excise along with materials need to be consulted before going for the final solution.
for selling this these bags, SD consultants will map the sale of scrap process for these bags. only things will be TDS of 1.133 %.
use material type NLAG or UNBW for bags depending upon your requirement.
Regards
Rajesh