Material coding for material from differnt vendors

[Former Member]

A material is procured from differnt vendors. Material sourced from some vendors are registered for one header material and all vendors are registered for second header material. Should I maintain different codes or same code for the material? How it is to be handled from GMP and MRP point of view?

[vinay_ashwathnarayan · Accepted solution]

Hello Vishal

Creating different Material master for different source of supply is not advisable and is not considered as the Best practice. You can create one material master which has different sources of supply  ( Vendors) in Me01 transaction, and maintain quota arrangement if yo need to.

Further you can handle quality management by having different inspection plans and Quality info records for each vendor.

Hope this helps

Regards

Vinay

[former_member42743]

The question is do you have a need to track something by the manufacture/vendor?

I.e. if you don't really care, you should just use one material and set it up to be bought by different vendors.

In SAP, a manufacturer has a specific meaning as does vendor.  You buy from a vendor.  But that vendor might be a distributor or middle man and they might source the material from several different manufacturers.

IF you have a need to track by manufacturer than you would need to follow SAP standard "approved manufacturers" process.

Here's SAP's overview of the process:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_470/helpdata/en/75/ee15c655c811d189900000e8322d00/content.htm

Here's a link to setting it up:

http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/106f94ee-8dc2-2a10-a485-882871fa5...

Here's another:

http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/d085fa61-70f5-2d10-2f95-e9f3800a1...

FF

[former_member208398]

Dear,

Regarding MRP points of view:

You can have the same material code. Check the following:

1. Maintain purchase info record for all the sources (ME11, ME12).

2. Maintain the sources in source list ME01.

3. Maintain quota in MEQ1. This quota arrangement will be used by MRP during receipt creation. You can have several MRP relevant sources for the same period.

4. Check the quota arrangement usage in material master MRP2 view, I generally use quota arrangement usage =3.

With this settings MRP will generate receipts as per the quota arrangement, but you may inspect the cases when minimum lot size is maintained in material master, it is a little bit tricky.

Regarding Quality point of view:

1. You can create quality info records per vendor for controlling purpose in QI01. Kindly go through the SAP help:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp60_sp/helpdata/en/2d/35113c448c11d189420000e829fbbd/content.htm

2. If the inspection plan varies from vendor to vendor, I would suggest you maintain those plans under the same group with different group counters, and assign them vendor wise using the Material Assignment button in QP02.

Glad if I could help you.

Best Regards,

Rajen