Customer VMI

[Former Member]

Hi experts,

Can you tell me the total solution about customer VMI? And do you have any process document about customer VMI? Thank you so much.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I have found one such explaination in Forum, itself. Hope this might help you.

Vendor-Managed Inventory (VMI)

Purpose

This scenario describes how vendors can plan material requirements in the customer's company. Vendors can only offer this service if they have access to stock figures and sales data at the customer.

In R/3, you can implement vendor-managed inventory (VMI) from a vendor point of view and from a customer point of view. VMI would typically be used when the manufacturer of consumer products plans the replenishments of the products at a retailer.

You can use VMI functions independently of each other and also in different contexts.

Integration

The following R/3 components are used:

Component

Function

Vendor (in customer system)

Transferring stock and sales data

Sales order (in vendor system)

Receiving stock and sales data via EDI

Planning replenishments for customers

Purchasing (in customer system)

Generating purchase orders for an order acknowledgment received by EDI

Process Flow

It is assumed that both the vendor and the customer have R/3.

Transferring stock and sales data via EDI

The customer uses the message category PROACT to transfer the current stock as well as the historical sales data or the forecast sales data for a particular article to the vendor.

For further information, see VMI: Transferring Stock and Sales Data to the Vendor.

Receiving stock and sales data via EDI

The sales data for the article is entered in an information structure in the information system S130 in the vendor system. The stock data is entered in the replenishment master data of the article.

Planning replenishments for customers

Using the sales data, vendors can forecast future expected sales of the articles concerned at their customers’ sites. Alternatively, forecast values obtained from the customer can be used.

Vendors first of all plan replenishments for the articles based on the current stock levels and any forecast values. The replenishment planning program calculates the requirement and generates a sales order as a follow-on document.

Sales order data is transferred to the customer by EDI in the form of an order acknowledgment. The message category ORDRSP is used for this.

For further information, see Customer Replenishment.

Generating purchase orders for an order acknowledgment received by EDI

The order acknowledgment from the vendor is converted in the customer’s system to a purchase order. If a purchase order cannot be generated, because the data is incomplete, for example, the system triggers a workflow.

If subsequent messages on this transaction are to be transferred at a later date by the vendor to the customer (for example, indicating a change in the order or a shipping notification), the purchase order number must be transferred to the vendor's system. The vendor system can then enter this number as a form of identification in subsequent messages, enabling the customer system to find the relevant purchase order.

If the order number should be transferred automatically to the vendor system after the purchase order has been generated, you have to enter the message variant VMI in the partner profile for the EDI message category ORDCHG.

Entering the purchase order number in the sales order

The purchase order number in the customer system is entered as a reference in the associated sales order.

Best Regards,

Amit

[Former Member]

Hi

Service provided by a vendor for a customer, whereby the vendor plans material requirements in the customer's company. Vendor-managed inventory is only possible if the vendor has access to the customer's current stock and sales data.

[Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI)|http://www50.sap.com/businessmaps/459B5C21A96411D3870B0000E820132C.htm]

For further details make a search in sdn threads posted

[Former Member]

Hi,

Thank you for your reply. Sorry, I maybe not explain my question clearly. For example, our company sales products to our customer, but customer don't pay money to our company till they issue goods. The products is still owned by our company although stock location is in customer site.

This process is like Vendor management Inventory, we can call it as Customer management inventory. Just like our company put products to super maket.

Some material teach me to do following step:

1. Consignment fillup (send materials to customer consignment).

2. Consignment issue (issue materials from customer consignment to the customer).

3. Consignment return (return materials from customer ownership to customer consignment).

4. Consignment pickup (pickup consignment stock and move it to plant stock).

I need the complete solution and some process document to our client as solution. Thank you.