Providing Materials From Another Vendor (SAP Library - Managing Special Stocks (MM-IM))

Providing Materials From Another Vendor

If components to be provided to a vendor are supplied not by your company but by a third-party, you can order the components from the third-party and specify the subcontractor in the purchase order as the delivery address. At goods receipt the components are posted directly to the stock of the material provided to vendor.

Entering a Purchase Order for Components

To order components for a subcontract order from a vendor and have them delivered direct to the subcontractor, enter a standard purchase order with a different delivery address:

From the Purchasing menu, choose Purchase order ® Create ® Vendor known.
Maintain the data on the initial screen. Make sure you enter the vendor of the components and the plant concerned.

Enter the items.

Then choose Item ® More functions ® Delivery address.

A dialog box appears in which you enter the delivery address.

In the field Vendor enter the number of the subcontractor and select the SC vendor box.

Selecting the box causes the components at goods receipt to be posted directly to the stock of the material provided to vendor when the goods receipt is posted.

Save the purchase order.

Posting the Goods Receipt of the Components

If the subcontractor lets you know that the components have arrived, you can enter the goods receipt for the purchase order. The components are posted directly to the stock of the material provided to vendor.

Stock Update

A goods receipt posting has the following results in the system:

the stock of material provided to vendor at plant level is increased. The stock of material provided to vendor is not managed at storage location level, since the stock is no longer stored at your company.
Valuated stock at plant level increases.

Documents

An accounting document is created for the material document.