Source list S4/HANA - several vendors marked "fixed"

[projectandsourcingoffice]

Hi,

in the SAP Learning Hub's section on "source lists" the exercise shows 2 vendors for 1 material being marked as "fixed". If the "fixed" indicator defines the preferred vendor, I do not understand what happens if you mark 2 vendors as fixed and MRP relevant. Can anybody explain the background? Thanks!

[Dennis_Suck85]

Dear projectandsourcingoffice,

in S4/HANA public cloud two or more fixed vendors are not possible

What I know from ECC in the past this was different. But normally the system searches the entries in the responsible table and find the first valid one, this is not according to any logic - it is the first possible one with the table keys.

Nevertheless if you want to procure from two or more vendors "fixed" and get your purchase requisition assigned to the fix vendors then i recommend using the quotation function - below attached.

Two vendors are assigned in source list

On quotation header for the material

On item level two different vendors we share the quantity two vendors if needed

Best regards Dennis