purchase of spares

[Former Member]

Dear All

I have a requirement to purchase spare parts for my plant,

The problem is the part number of the spare part is different for different vendor

how do i maintain material number for same part with different part number supplied by vendor.

example:

The part number for eg shaft is X for vendor 1, but for the same Shaft the part number is Y for vendor 2, now how do i maintain different part number for the same matereial,

Suggestion will be worth appreating.

Regards

SARFRAZ

[Former Member]

Hi

In real time that will not happen

SAP material Number is same for the Material created in MM01 with respect to all vendors

and in the Old Material Number you give the vendor specific general number

Each vendor can not call the same spare part with different names

there should be some unique name maintained.

Regards

Anji

[Former Member]

Dear Anji

I purchse a spart part called shaft from a company X, the manufacturing no is 001, which i have to maintain in my SAP to order the materail Shaft,but if the same shaft is purchased from a different vendor who has a different manufacturer than it has a different manufacturer number eg 002, so how do i maintain two different materail numbber for same materail.

if it is manufactured by 3 different vendors than do i have to maintain 3 materail master...

there should be some means by which i can maintain vendors materail number.