Question Re: Source of supply in Me51n in Enterprise Resource Planning Q&A

Source of supply in Me51n

Former Member — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 21:50:28 GMT

Hi dears.

I'm facing the following:

when I check the button "Assign source of supply" for a Services PR. I'm getting both the contract and the vendor of the contract as well.

How can avoid that, I only need the contract as a source of supply.

Why the vendor is used as a source of supply?

Cheers!

Re: Source of supply in Me51n

JL23 — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 22:24:47 GMT

the vendor is as well a source, because you could procure the service without contract.

Re: Source of supply in Me51n

Prasoon — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 04:59:52 GMT

Hi,

As Mr. Jurgen already explained, the Vendor is a source and hence the standard SAP will show vendor also as a source of supply when you click on assign source of supply in PR.

You can very well modify it by fusing the layout. Put filter on the item number column in the source of supply tab in ME51N as shown below.

Set the value as "Not Equal to Zero"

Now the system will show only agreements as source of supply. If there is no agreement, the vendor wont be shown in the list.

Save the layout and make it as default or user specific as required.

Regards,

AKPT

Re: Source of supply in Me51n

ravindra_devarapalli — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 06:38:13 GMT

Hi,

As per my understanding, Source of supply will propose always sources for the material and plant and vendor and purchasing organization. When you click on assign source of supply, system proposes the availability sources for your requirement.

System will proposes the source of supply based on priority basis as per standard. If you have multiple sources then like info record , quota arrangement , contracts, source list.

Vendor is one of the source of supply.

Re: Source of supply in Me51n

former_member183155 — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 09:58:39 GMT

Hi all ;

This is standart and logical behaviour.

In source of supply , sap advises first qouta arrangement - than source list - next outline agreements - last info records.

Also, you can use the regular vendor only if you have nothing other than info records stored in the system for a material , if you dont prefer to create a source list to control the source determination process.

Regards.

M.Ozgur Unal

Re: Source of supply in Me51n

Former Member — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 01:50:06 GMT

Hi Gurus.

Thanks a lot for your advices and responses!

Best Regards.