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_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...

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