SNP Heuristics is not picking up contracts as source of supply

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

I have a strange situation here. I have integrated a vendor contract with APO, which has created an external procurement relationship and a valid transportation lane. When I create a receipt element manually through /n/sapapo/rrp3, the source of supply is determined rightly to this vendor and receipt is created.....but when I run location SNP heuristics interactively, system generates receipt element without any reference to this source of supply. Expectation is creation of receipt element with reference to vendor and contract...

System release is SCM 5.1 with ECC 6

Am I missing something?....please let me have your inputs...

Thanks and regards,

Raghav

[aparna_ranganathan · Accepted solution]

Raghav

I believe what you are seeing is a standard behaviour. SNP does not consider the source of supply associated with a contract.

Please refer note 1180833 . It explains this behaviour and also provides a workaround.

We have not implemented this note , but incase you implement this note or use some other workaround post it back in the same thread so that everybody can learn from that.

Thanks

Aparna

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Aparna,

Thank you for your response.

I have checked the note, but it is applicable till SCM 500 SP 13. Our's is SCM 5.1 and this is inclusive I suppose. As per the SAP SCM standard documentation, external procurement relationship between vendor and receiving plant can be created through following 3 docuements:

1. Purchase infor record

2. Scheduling agreement

3. Contracts

Additionally, as per documentation, even source list between plant and vendors can be integrated by enabling the same through R/3 transaction 'CIFPUCUST01'.

I have worked with first two and SNP considers these for source determination. When I tried to integrate the contract, though it is creating TL between 'vendor --> receiving plant' and an active external procurement relationship, SNP is not found considering this for source determination. When I tried to use the source list for creating TL and esternal procurement relationship, the same is not creating any.

What type of contracts can be used for SNP planning and what else required to be done for integrating source list? I have enabled source list in R/3 material master. Source list is maintained as 'MRP relevant' in R/3.

Thanks and regards,

Raghav

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Raghav

The SCM documentation here is not entirely correct, SNP will not consider Contracts as a valid source within standard, if you review SAP Note 904588 - Integration of Purchase Orders Based on Contracts, this explains the reasons for this. It does suggest raising a development request with SAP if this functionality is required.

[SAP Note 904588|https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/904588]

Regards

Ian

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi All,

The problem is resolved as follows:

1. Source list integration is activated in customization

2. Material master is changed to include source list

3. Vendor and Contract is integrated with APO

4. Means of ttransport is maintained for the automatically created T Lane through contract integration

5. SNP creates receipt element without reference to souece of supply

6. Upon publishing, the right source of supply for the receiving location is updated in R/3

7. The same is updated in APO through CIF confirmation

Thanks for all your inputs...

Regards,

Raghav

[aparna_ranganathan · Accepted solution]

Thank you for the update Raghav

Thanks

Aparna