SAP MM Consignment
SAP MM Consignment
SAP Consignment is process wherein you buy the goods from vendor, but don't valuate that stock. Only when goods are withdrawn from your stores, are you liable to your vendor for your payments. Best example would be big TV shop which buys the goods from its vendors for advertising and display purposes and only when they sold, vendor charges him.
Consignment process in SAP MM is handled through item category in purchasing documentand it has certain prerequisites/steps for consignment process to work.
1) There must be price maintained in inforecord for consignment (info type 2 in EINE table) for certain material, vendor, purchasing organization and plant.
Prices need to be maintained in inforecord which will be used when settling liabilities with vendor.(ME11)
2) Create the Purchase Order with item category K in ME21N to order the goods from vendor for consignment.
3) On requested delivery date in Purchase Order, do MB01 -101 that is Goods Receipt for above goods on consignment. Again one important point is, you are still not liable to pay your vendor. These goods will not be valuated, accounting document will not be posted unless stock is withdrawn from consignment for your own use.
4) You withdraw the goods for your own purpose. Like in our example of TV shop, customer buys the TV. So that means shop keeper withdraws the goods from his consignment stock and now vendor will be his liability.
Goods can be withdrawn in MB1A- 261 and MB1B-411 movement types with special stock indicator K used for consignment
This will be valuated and will post accounting document. Now consignment stock is actually valuated
5) Invoice in MIRO is not done in case of consignment process. The liabilities are settled in MRKO for certain period say month, quarter etc.
Vendor will be paid at price that is maintained in inforecord. As and when required, prices set with vendors must be adjusted in inforecord as well. (ME12). Scales per validity period can be maintained if they vary over period in ME12.
6) If goods are not withdrawn, you can do 102 or 122 movement types in MB01 with special stock indicator K for consignment to return goods to vendor. Here vendor is not your liability.
7) Inforecord needs to be maintained for normal as well as standard purchasing organization. Plant dealing in consignment process (to be put in Purchase Order) must be assigned to standard purchasing origination in configuration.
8) Stock in consignment is seen separately in stock overview MMBE for certain material and plant.

Very well written article , you should cover other areas of MM as well like MRP etc