RE:[sap-log-mm] 2 Outline Agreements For Same Material
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 | Posted by ha_tran (Senior SAP Supply Chain Business Analyst) on Mar 15 at 2:03 AM |  Mark as helpful |
Hi DLT,
If you are following the standard business flow where purchase requisition is used to register the external procurements of material, then SAP will allow you to choose which particular outline agreement you are going to select for each and every purchase requisition line item before conversion it into respective purchase order. You can either use ME51N/ME52N or ME57 for this source of supply determination.
Cheers,
HT
---------------Original Message---------------
From: DLT
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 12:59 AM
Subject: 2 Outline Agreements For Same Material
> We have a situation where one material is being purchased from 2 different vendors and we have Agreements in SAP with both vendors.
>
> What is happening is the system is not recognizing there are outline agreements for the material...and then release orders are not getting assigned. When we do a spend analysis of the agreement, the information is not accurate as release orders are not assigned. The system seems to be confused because there are 2 agreements and thus not able to "assign" and is not proposing/showing a choice between 2.
>
> What I am wondering is...is there a way to get the system to "propose' the 2 agreements when you are creating the release order...similar to when there is more than one "info record" and no agreement exists when creating a requisition...the system will show that there is more than one info record and you choose which vendor/material combination you prefer.
>
> Obviously there is similar functionality in "quota agreements" because the system will propose which vendor to order from based on % of spend etc. but you can choose which vendor on the quota arrangement to order from.
>
> From a "Business Process" viewpoint, one might ask why a company would have more than one agreement for the same material and the only explanation really is if the "material" is deemed strategic/critical to the organization and thus you want to ensure you maintain a relationship with more than one vendor incase your main vendor is short of supply/goes on strike/goes out of business etc...If you didn't maintain the relationship with another vendor and it is a critical material to your company...may cause a plant outages if you couldn't procure the material in a timely fashion! This is a key reason why you do quota arrangements...However, this is not the "scenario" for us and I am addressing this issue from a process perspective as well as SAP functionality to handle these situations.
__.____._ If you are following the standard business flow where purchase requisition is used to register the external procurements of material, then SAP will allow you to choose which particular outline agreement you are going to select for each and every purchase requisition line item before conversion it into respective purchase order. You can either use ME51N/ME52N or ME57 for this source of supply determination.
Cheers,
HT
---------------Original Message---------------
From: DLT
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 12:59 AM
Subject: 2 Outline Agreements For Same Material
> We have a situation where one material is being purchased from 2 different vendors and we have Agreements in SAP with both vendors.
>
> What is happening is the system is not recognizing there are outline agreements for the material...and then release orders are not getting assigned. When we do a spend analysis of the agreement, the information is not accurate as release orders are not assigned. The system seems to be confused because there are 2 agreements and thus not able to "assign" and is not proposing/showing a choice between 2.
>
> What I am wondering is...is there a way to get the system to "propose' the 2 agreements when you are creating the release order...similar to when there is more than one "info record" and no agreement exists when creating a requisition...the system will show that there is more than one info record and you choose which vendor/material combination you prefer.
>
> Obviously there is similar functionality in "quota agreements" because the system will propose which vendor to order from based on % of spend etc. but you can choose which vendor on the quota arrangement to order from.
>
> From a "Business Process" viewpoint, one might ask why a company would have more than one agreement for the same material and the only explanation really is if the "material" is deemed strategic/critical to the organization and thus you want to ensure you maintain a relationship with more than one vendor incase your main vendor is short of supply/goes on strike/goes out of business etc...If you didn't maintain the relationship with another vendor and it is a critical material to your company...may cause a plant outages if you couldn't procure the material in a timely fashion! This is a key reason why you do quota arrangements...However, this is not the "scenario" for us and I am addressing this issue from a process perspective as well as SAP functionality to handle these situations.
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