Maintenance of Subcontractor Master Data 

Purpose

This process shows you how to enter your subcontractors’ master data as required by the Subcontracting with Chargeable Components solution.

You have to create a vendor master record and a customer master record for each subcontractor, since, from the system’s perspective, subcontractors are both customers of yours (you invoice them for chargeable components) and vendors (they invoice you for the subcontracting products and for the labor).

The vendor master record includes an additional screen where you enter data that is required by the Subcontracting with Chargeable Components solution.

In addition, you can enter a text with some information about the subcontractor in the customer or vendor master. This information is printed on the list of subcontracting components, which you can print from a subcontract order or delivery; and on delivery notes.

Prerequisites

In order for the additional screen to appear in the vendor master, you must have activated the Subcontracting with Chargeable Components solution in Customizing for Materials Management (MM), by choosing Inventory Management and Physical Inventory ® Subcontracting with Chargeable Components ® Activation of Subcontracting with Chargeable Components.

You have created text IDs as described in Customizing for MM, by choosing Inventory Management and Physical Inventory ® Make General Settings.

Process Flow

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       1.      You create a customer master record.

       2.      You create a vendor master record.