Material coding for material from differnt vendors

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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?

[Former Member]

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

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