Hi all,
My name is Ryan, and I am one of the material controllers for my company. The materials that I am addressing my comments about are WM using fixed (static) bins. For what its worth we use pick parts in our BOMs for these materials.
We are currently performing, in my opinion too many transactions when issuing materials through MIGO that are not part of Process Orders. Our process has a high degree of variability and therefore material will need to be issued to process orders that were not part of the original BOM or the materials will need to be issued to cost centers. Presently whenever we do this a TR is generated which auto-converts to a TO trying to pull material from our JIT warehouse location. Then someone from the warehouse or myself will kill the TO trying to pull the material from the warehouse. Because of this we tell operators to hit the "Do not generate TR" box in the WM field in MIGO.
Our manufacturing operators then have to generate their own TR's using LB01, convert them to TO's using LT04 and then pick/confirm using LT12. Because our company has been using SAP for less than a year, we are not familiar with all of the nuanced transactions which might allow us to skip steps. Can anyone recommend a way to streamline this process? The best I can think of is to use LT01 and then LT12.
Thank you for your assistance!
Ryan Burke