Hello Sap Experts,
We have materials Rods which are purchased in kg from and stored in meters. Actually the rods are used in the manufacture of one of our
finished product called Thermowell and each thermowell would be of maximum length 400mm which means in 1 meter you can approximately
manufacture 3 or 2 with 380mm and 1 with 180 mm
We have defined the theoretical conversion which is as per material standards for example 1 meter of 36 dia SS316 rod would be equal to 8 kg
similary 1 meter of SS316 rod 40 dia would be 11 kg and so on.
When we create a PO for purchase of these rods we enter qty to be purchased in kg for eg 200 kg. In the quantities/weight tab system picks up
the quantity in meter. For example it would be 40.34 meter. However as I see this field is a non editable.
However when we receive the material though the weight supplied would be 200 kg it may not happen the diameter of the rod is 36.00mm it could
be 37mm and this variation causes the length to be more or less i.e may be we might receive 42 meter or 38 meters. Now what
happens is when we do goods receipt again we are not able to change the quantity received in meters hence system stores it as 38 of 42. In both the cases if the qty stored is less though physically material is not available system would say it is available and vice versa.
Is there any way we could change the quantity received in meters at the time of goods receipt without changing the quantity in kg?
-Thanks,
Vaibhav