Source of Supply reset

[Former Member]

Hi All,

When we change a) Product category OR b) Product type - Goods or service in the Shopping cart, we get a message "Source of Supply is Reset" and vendor is cleared.

Is there anyway We can stop the Vendor from being dropped?

Any BADI ?

BR,

Aarvi.

[Former Member]

Has anyone solved this issue? We have the same requirement (Source of Supply should remain assigned during product category or purchasing group updates).

Note: We do not have this problem for catalog purchases. Product category and purchasing group are open for edit and the supplier assignment remains intact. Free text, on the other hand, results in removal of assigned supplier.

Thanks,

Tom

[ricardo_cavedini]

Hello,

As per the standard system behavior, the system would always check whether the assigned source of supply is valid, whenever there is a change in the product id, vendor product number, category, company code, plant, unit of measurement, product type or purchasing organization.

These are the fields which are dependent on the source of supply and the system checks the validity of the source of supply on change of any of these fields.

Kind regards,

Ricardo

[Former Member]

Hi Ricardo and Muthu,

Thanks for the quick resonse.

I know that this is a standard behaviour, but is there a way that I can retain the same vendor ?

BR,

Aarvi.

[Former Member]

Hi aarvi

you can do anything by development.

are you always going to buy only one vendor. you can hard code in the BADI

but your question is meaning less this time.

what is your business requirement

do you want to order any shopping cart with same only one vendor?

br

muthu

[Former Member]

yes...I want the same vendor to be retained.

[Former Member]

How will you assign the same vendor for different stuffs ?

for ex. buyer negoatiated one material with vendor ancd created a contract and you want that contract to assign some other material.

it is not possible.

already Ricardo explained well.

if you want to send all your sc to only one vendor you can do it by DOC CHANGE BADI..

br

muthu

[Former Member]

Okie. I think I was not clear enough. Let me try to give various scenarios where my customer is facing problems.

1) Usually requisitioners do not set the correct Prod Category but set the correct vendor. The buyer, changes the category and forgets to check the Vendor is set or not.

2) When requisitioner changes the key values after the Buyer rejects it, still the vendor is dropped. Requisitioner forgets to check this and submits it back again.

Likewise there are other scenarios as well which causes many iterations and the client is unhappy aboput it.

We suggested to have mandatory vendor check on all PR line items. But the problem here is, requisitioners at times do not know the Vendor. Buyer only checks if the entered vendor is correct or not.

The client is adomant about this requirement and want us to implement it.

It would be of great help if one of you could tell me the BAdi which can be implemented to avoid restting. I looked at the SAP code where its checking for any change in key values and accordingly resetting it. This gives me a feeling that there would not be any BAdi until and unless I am thinking wrong.

Reaching out to you guys for directions...

Thank you!

[Former Member]

Hi Aarvi,

I am assuming you are mentioning about the product category line items and not the products.

The source of supply list on a SC line item is a mix of

01) supplier list for the product category and purchasing organization combination

02) Contracts for that product category.

If the item bought is is a product with a SAP material master id, the third one is the interlinkages.

With the key field as Product or product category, SRM system builds a source of supply list and proposes the suppliers.

This generation of list is based on the product id or product category whichever the case may be.

Once you change the triggers of list building of source of supply regardless of your workflow design, system would build each and every time.

There is an option in SRM to have preferred supplier and fixed supplier. I am assuming the the end user enters the preferred supplier in your scenario and the operational purchaser would fix the same.

I fear, the system might lose the preferred supplier while it builds the list of sources of supply and hence, you might think of moving that to the custom field and store it (business rules should be carefully discussed as you might beat standard SAP) so that the purchaser can see that and fix when the work item comes back for approvals.

Again, like what others said, operational purchasers if forget to provide the supplier id on the SC, a PO might be created in saved mode in which the OP purchaser can again provide the supplier id and order it.

Hope this helps.

DV

[former_member198532]

Dear Aarvi,

Were you able to resolve this issue?

We are facing similar issue and opened message with SAP but as mentioned by other members, this is standard SAP behavior. Our client also wants to at least retain the same Vendor and that information is not lost. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide or share.

sincerely,

VGF

[Former Member]

Hi Aarvi

it is good. why do you want to retain same vendor for another PG too.

since fixed vendors are set up for material and material group right.

br

muthu