• The Special procurement key (SPK) is applied in material master data whenever a product is transferred from one plant to another.

In PF1, the SPK is only maintained for transferences between plants of the same company code

In WP1, the SPK is only maintained for transferences between plants of the different companies


In case these rules are not followed accordingly, we may have some critical impacts in Stock Margin Elimination and Integrated Contribution Margin processes. The SPK is a very important field for the determination of integrated cost, mainly in WP1 system.


Example:

A material 1234 is produced in Plant a and then transferred to plant b. 

In the master data of the material code 1234 in plant b a code "XX procurement from plant a" is entered in the field SpecProcurem Costing

If the SPK does not exist, a request to IS Team needs to be raised. After, the RPA FICO Template needs to be prepared and sent to SU MAC Data Management Team for the updated of this field.

Example in SAP:

PF1


Material code 195051 is produced in plant SMF and transferred to plant 6006 ( same legal entity 5835). A SPK X1 was created to link this flow.


Then, material 195051 will have the cost estimate (and the costs split) of plant SMF reflected in plant 6006.



WP1



  • The material is produced by a third party, use 30
  • The material is a byproduct that has no production version use 20
  •  In other cases leave it in blank.

The Special Procurement key is maintained in the Costing 1, but it can also be maintained by the supply chain in the view MRP2 .

If there is no Special procurement type in the Costing 1 of the material master data, the system will consider the Special procurement type in the MRP view. - For cost estimate purposes, for example.