How to maintain non-valuated material samples

[Former Member]

Hi,

In pharmaceuticals industry upon finished goods production, certain quantity of produced material is retained as samples on non-valuated and quantity tracked basis.

Can someone point out how to map this requirement in SAP MM-Inventory Management?

Regards,

Ali

[Former Member]

Hi Ali

Just a thought on it

Looks like you want to track the sample material on quantity basis(Batch details) until it is scrapped . You can do this through split valuation but then there is a additional work of master data and config maintenance.If such sampling is happening for all materials then it make sense to go for split(To reduce number of material count) else if the materail count is not more you can still create materail of  UNBW material type and do material to material transfer and issue to cost center.

And if there is no tracking required then solution given by Abhshek looks more logical

Aslo please check how the accounting posting is happening for sampling.

Regards

Pramod Mane

[Former Member]

Anil,

I will stick to my solution which is exactly appropriate in your Business Scenario Assuming there will be very less quanity for this its no harm  issueing them to cost centre of your testing Lab. And using it thease material for future lab testing.

Please let me know your opinion on thease.

[JL23]

In the chemical industry the samples are usually in much smaller packaging than the saleable material. For this reason they have its own material master, either per packaging or just as generic material that covers all sample sizes of one material. Seperate materials can have different material types, hence the sample can be non-valuated while the standard material is valuated

[Former Member]

Dear Jurgen,

Thanks for your input.

I have managed it through spilt valuation (valuation types: For Sale, Samples).

At the time of production confirmation, 8 out of 10 produced quantity is received in For Sale valuation type. Cost of 10 is built on 8 via yield loss.

Later 2 sample quantity is received using mvt 561 (initial stock entry) in Samples valuation type in Retain Samples storage location. Value of samples is kept 0.

Kind regards,

Ali

[Former Member]

Hi Anil,

Not convincing approch to have split valuation for the finished Material. Does it??? Finished material should always valuated as Standard price not moving average price.

"certain quantity of produced material is retained as samples on non-valuated and quantity tracked basis."  

The Correct approch should be use should issue thease finished material to cost centre for testing lab and after Saple usage you can scape thee as well.

[Former Member]

Dear Abhishek,

Thanks for chiming in.

1. We are maintaining finished goods on standard price for both For Sale and Sample valuation type.
2. Let me explain the nature of samples here, these are not testing samples. These samples needs to be retained in laboratory till expiration under specific conditions (temperature etc.). So that if there is any market event where they need to be tested/checked then we have the same batch/material available. If such situation arrives then they will be tested and scrapped after that.

Regards,

Ali

[Former Member]

Thanks for your response. In your suggested solution moving average price of remaining materials that are not samples will be changed. This is something we don't want.

1) Sale-able materials stock should be stored separately and their MAP should also remained un-effected from samples inventory movements.

2) Samples stock should be stored separately and should be non-valuated (only quantity tracked).

[ravindra_devarapalli]

Hi,

Why should not use for Free items for samples. If you are used Free items then these materials value is zero and quantity will be updated and you can track .