Creation of PDS at Vendor Location

[NitinMahajan]

Hi Experts,

How do you create a PDS at vendor location automatically ?

We want to simulate the planning at the vendor location.

Now we transfer the required data to APO via CIF, but we also need data at vendor location (material and PDS).

May be use can use the BAdI's at the APO inbound during CIF exchange.

i.e. we transfer the Purchasing Info records also, and then at that time, since we know the vendor and material, we also can create a location product at vendor, with very basic data.

Similar stuff can be done for PDS, but the question is which PDS should be used as a reference. i.e. should we use a BOM used in one of our production plants and for sure nobody will have one at the distribution center.

Thanks in advance for your ideas.

Regards,

Nitin

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Nitin,

You can maintain the vendor as a location in R/3 by taking a reference BOM from one of the production plants and then maintain the Bill of material, routing and master receipe and then CIF it to APO to get the relevant production data structures. For in-house production, source of supply is must.

Regards

R. Senthil Mareeswaran.

[NitinMahajan]

making vendor as a location in R/3 is not possible as we may have many vendors.

but then I guess, we need to use one of the R/3 BOMs as reference and use it.