DOI: 10.32725/978-80-7394-976-1.30

Subcontracting process as a chain of transactions in the information system SAP

Milan Cepák, Petr Hanzal

University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice / Faculty of Economics, Department of Applied Mathematics and Informatics, Studentská 13, České Budějovice, 370 05, Czech Republic, mcepak@ef.jcu.cz

University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice / Faculty of Economics, Department of Applied Mathematics and Informatics, Studentská 13, České Budějovice, 370 05, Czech Republic, phanzal@ef.jcu.cz

Today, subcontracting (or outsourcing) represents standard process used widely in manufacturing companies. It is based on production of several parts which are then provided to the external company creating new products from them. These products are then delivered back to the manufacturing company where they are used as subcomponents for the target product. Monitoring of the state related to the original parts as well as the delivered ones could be very demanding because there are permanently changes of their numbers in company warehouses. The effort can be decreased by the use of suitable information system enabling the description of the subcontracting process. This article shows how to implement individual steps of subcontracting in the system SAP. It presents how to create bill of materials (BOM) for delivered product, how to send and account parts to the external company and how to deliver them back as assembled subcomponents. Straightforwardness of the scheme is supported by an example from technical praxis.

Keywords: subcontracting, outsourcing, SAP, warehouse, accounting

pages: 203-209