Country of origin Settings in Material Master?

[Former Member]

Hi Guys:

we are procuring Materials from both domestic and international , how can the end user find out the country of origin for that Material?

1) If your are procuring (M1) from both US and India ?

or

2) M2 directly from China ?

3) M3 Directly from US?

Thanks

Sweth.

[JL23 · Accepted solution]

Procuring materials from a US vendor does not necessarily mean that the country of origin is USA. the country of dipatch is USA, but the material can be manufactured in China or Mexico or any other country. You can only know the country of origin if you ask your vendor to give you a long term declaration for country of origin or he has to write the country of origin on any delivery document.

if you want trace this, then you need to maintain this info in the batch record. either in the forseen field with MSC2N or in batch classification while doing the receipt.

The material master is not a good source for this information if you get your material with different origin.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi guys

Thanks for the reponse , my client is in distribution business they get products made in usa , China and some other places.

some of the customers want only products made in USA .so that they can issue products to customers ?

what settings need to be maintained?.

thanks

Sweth

[former_member218067 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

For a distribusion company I would suggest to go for Split valuation ,because then you will be able to track the origin

for the entire supply chain cycle alonwith valuation requirements from finance, this is just a suggesion you can explore further

Thanks

Diwakar

[JL23 · Accepted solution]

In this case I would enter the country of origin in classification of batch record, and use batch determination to find the right batch for the customer.

However this only helps to pick the right batch, but it does not help you for planning (e.g. to reorder US origin material),

in this case you may even need to consider to create seperate material masters

[Former Member]

As country of Origin can be varied from consignment to consignment, It is better to save it under Individual Batch either with User field or Classification

[pankaj_singh9]

Hi,

Country of origin can be different for the combination of material, vendor and plant so this information keeps on varying. In case if vendor confirms the country of origin then same can be maintained as an information in Purchase Info Record under "Origin Data" Tab of General Data Screen.

[former_member218067]

Hi,

If the material is valuated seperately for seperate origin and you want to trace it for full lifecycle of supply chain

Then SAP Recommends to use Split Valuation, by activating split valuation for that material you can trace different material origins

as valuation types, please explore further on split valuation

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_46c/helpdata/en/47/61017149f011d1894c0000e829fbbd/content.htm

Thanks

Diwakar