Products getting extended to Vendor location - Need to fix

[andy_yeri]

Hello Experts,

We've a peculiar problem in the data that is getting CIF'd to APO. Following describes our data set up & then the problem we are having -

1. Our design is to have a Plant in the SAP system (locn type 1001) for each sub-contractor.

2. For each sub-con we also have a Vendor location (type 1011) maintained in SAP. Process is, when a Sales Order comes in a sub-con P Req is cut to the (sub-con) Vendor, who in turn gets the material from the "plant" & so on.

3. Now, when we are sending over Products to APO from ECC, some (few only) of the materials are getting extended to the sub-con vendor location there by causing Source of supply determination issues at the time of Order ATP (we use CTP process with Immediate Planning procedure)

Question - What causes few Products to get extended to the (subcon) Vendor location (in addition to his Plant)?? & how to fix this issue?

Any idea would be a big help

Thanks

[m_manimaran]

Hi,

I have few questions on your scenario,

1. For normal sub contracting scenario, there is no need to maintain the Plant as a vendor. Why do you need this plant as the vendor?

2. In APO, since the vendor is also treated as a location and plant is assigned to it, there is a tendency to create the materials to the vendor location also. Since you are telling that, this happens only for few materials, we need to check on this. Do you have any Purchase info records, only for these few materials? Or is there any other special relation between this vendor and those materials like special procurement key or subcontracting BOM?

Please let me know the above details, I will try to find some more details on this.

Regards,

Manimaran M.

[andy_yeri]

Hello,

1. We own the sub-contracting facility, but dont MAN the Capacity of the resource, hence there is a need to create the facility as a Plant.

2. We have PIR's that exist between Sub-con Vendor & the Plant assigned to the facility & that we've been having in the system for 2+ yrs & never was this issue seen before. The Integration Models - nothing has changed there either. ONLY 2-3 matls/Products have this issue.

The work around of deleting entire Master & Transaction data is pretty painful

Thanks

[Former Member]

Hi

Please check the selection criteria for Product integration model.You can specify the plants as well as products.

You can exclude the list of products which you don't want to CIF.

Also please check the selection criteria for CIFFING purchasing info records. Purchasing info records contain information at product vendor level.

Thanks

Amit