RBA check for Vendor Stock

[Former Member]

Hi ,

We want to implement and maintain vendor stock figures in SAP.

We have goods storage at our warehouse and also at suppliers which are ready to share their stock information. Goods at the vendors site are owned by vendors and a standard purchase order will be used when ordering goods . We will receive lists from Vendor with stock figures each day, these will be send to SAP for processing and updating the stock figures .

Functionality:  we are looking for possibility to check vendor stock for availability check if there is no sufficient stock at our warehouse and if confirmed against vendor stock then availability check to consider stock transport time (to have 10 days stock ).                             

We also want to trigger Purchase requisition for same( no manual work).

Can this be achieved by using RBA Location substitution using consolidation location ( creating vendor stock at virtual vendor location in SAP) or there is some other better option ?

Regards

Nitesh

[manoj_gaikwad · Accepted solution]

HI Nitesh,

Yes, using standard RBA setting you can achive your requirement.

While maintaining Location Substitution rule, in /SAPAPO/RBA04 select the rule and Activity tab

Here maintain Create Activity as say STR - Stock Transfer Requirement

Then Assign this Activity to the rule

You need to provide below details to complete the setup

Location, Sub Location and Validity Dates.

Also ensure that you have Means of Transport maintained between this two location ( TCODE: /SAPAPO/SCC_TL1) and assign the same while creating the activity STR.

There are other PPDS setting as well that you need to setup like Fixed Pegging relation ship and Planning Procedure where you maintain Reaction to Events as "Create/Change dependent/stock transfer requirement)

I know above steps are not in details but if you explore in this area you might be able to setup the functionality as per the requirement.

Thanks,

Manoj Gaikwad

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks a lot Manoj for your kind help.

It may take some more time for me to be able to setup system to give final confirmation.  I am currently struggling with two things :

1) Purchase requisition Location L2->L1 is not getting generated ( transferred to ECC) though I can see it in Order ATP overview

2) Product availability check didn't give back full confirmation at checking horizon for location L1 after  checking location L1 and L2 .

Br,

Nitesh