Subcontracting Purchase Requistion (SNP) becomes Standard Purchase Requisition (MM)

[Former Member]

Dears,

-T-Lane exists wrt a purchase info-record of form subcontracting that was brought over from ECC.

-A purchase requisition created in SNP understood that t-lane and faithfully determined the source of supply.

-This purchase requisition at first refused to go to ECC citing missing Purchase organization (Enter Purchase Org)

-But I deleted these queues failing to understand what the H does it mean when all concerned master data animals like Purchase info record and T-Lane and Ext Proc relation have a unique Purchase org in both source and target systems

- I than ran CCR report and managed to whip these purchase requisitions to ECC (ideally it should create the same missing purchase org queues again)

- These purchase requisitions in ECC now have a) An entirely different inforecord b) A document type NB which is standard purchase requisition and NOT a subcontracting purchase requisition.

- There is no special procurement key in material master

- There are no BADIs and Z animals in anywhere

Question:

Why is ECC determining the source again when APO has already done it?

[Former Member]

Are there multiple source of supply available in APO or ECC?

APO has only one based on the single inforecord we got from ECC to begin with.

Please make sure T lane and Ext. Proc. Relationships created as subcontracting as source as Info record.

They are of form 3

Check if you have any source list used for this material in ECC.

There is no source list

Also check item category in Purchase requisition as L for subcontracting.

Item Category is BLANK in ECC against the Preq that came from APO. Blank means standard and it creates a standard Purchase Requisition (NB) with Standard Purch Info-Record. If I create a Purchase Requisition with item category L, it picks up the SubContracting Purch Inforecord.

So I guess the question is on how does the Purch Req in ECC 'determine' the item category? I am presuming that the item category controls source determination? Why should it? When the source is already determined before. Esp. when APO does not understand the language of item category. Is this how it is designed to work?

[rupesh_brahmankar]

Hello,

Please share the screen shot of T Lane.

If subcontracting tick there that will determines the item category in Preq APO to ECC.

Why dont you have Procurement Type F-30 in ECC?

Best Regards,

R.Brahmabkar

[rupesh_brahmankar · Accepted solution]

Hello,

Are there multiple source of supply available in APO or ECC?

Please make sure T lane and Ext. Proc. Relationships created as subcontracting as source as Info record.

Also check item category in Purchase requisition as L for subcontracting.

Check if you have any source list used for this material in ECC.

Best Regards,

R.Brahmankar

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Rupesh,

You are THE MASTER. I bow down. I wish I had the good fortune of becoming your protege in my mid-20's. I am now 45 and practically useless.

Thanks

Amit

[rupesh_brahmankar]

Hello,

Procurement Type F-30 in ECC will help here for source determination

Please refer SAP consulting not 369921 - Subcontracting and SNP

No subcontracting purchase requisitions can be created with the SNP heuristic. The only option you currently have to create subcontracting purchase requisitions in the APO is through a PPDS planning, CTM planning

The SNP heuristic and SNP optimizer cannot create any subcontracting purchase requisitions.

Best Regards,

R.Brahmankar