Purchase Requisition created by APO transferred to ECC does not have Agreement as source of supply

[former_member343632]

Hi All,

For the materials with special procurement key - 30,I am creating Purchase Reqs in APO by running location Heuristic.

The source of supply (i.e. Vendor is appearing in APO planning book).

I go and check in ECC using MD04,the Pur Reqs has the source of supply as Info Record and this is not desirable.

We are expecting "Agreement" to be the source of supply.

The transportation lane from vendor to plant has the reference of contracts but still the Pur Reqs are created with Info Record as source.

The screenshots are given in the attached document.

I have checked the SAP note - "369921 - Subcontracting and SNP" and wondering if there is any way to make "Agreement" as the source of supply and not the info record.

Regards,

Prabhat

[alan_heathcote]

Hi Prabhat,

are you releasing the SNP heuristic? if so it will be choosing the info record as the source of supply and hence once the SNP generated requisition arrives in ECC this will be the designated ource of supply. We have a similar business issue and our process is as follows :-

• do not transfer the purchasing info record for the vendor/product/location (s) ECC to APO. if it’s already in APO remove from integration model then regenerate.this should block any active transport lanes but double check just in case.
• generate SNP purchase requisition – at this point the vendor as source of supply should be blank.
• convert the SNP requisitions to PP/DS via /SAPAPO/RRP_SNP2PPDS2.
• depending on your configuration the PP/DS requisitions will either immediately transfer the PP/DS requisitions to ECC, else publish via /SAPAPO/RDMCPPROCESS.
• check in ECC – is the contract/agreement now referenced?.and this should auto be represented as same in APO.

core issue is the SNP heuristic being unable to choose a Contract as a valid SOS.

hope this helps, good luck

Alan

[former_member343632]

Hi Alan,

Thank you for your quick suggestions.I will follow the steps as you suggested. I have some questions and if possible please clarify them.

1. we have blocked the T Lanes created via purchase info record but the T lanes of type subcontracting created via contracts has the reference of Agreement.

Are you saying not to transfer even the Contracts and create the SNP preqs without T lanes ?

In current scenario I have noticed that source of supply i.e. vendor is not assigned to orders immediately after running location heuristics but it is assigned after it returns to APO from ECC.

2. Do I need to stop the transfer of SNP purchase requisition to ECC and if needed then how to stop ?

3. How to configure for immediate transfer of PP/DS purchase requisitions ?

4. Will the PReqs be assigned the Item category as "L" in ECC ?

I will update you on this.

Regards,

Prabhat