Report RMDMRPLIST: Displaying Planning Data over the Internet (SAP Library

Report RMDMRPLIST: Displaying Planning Data over the Internet

Use

You can use the report RMDMRPLIST to enable your external vendors to display particular planning data over the Internet. The vendor logs on to your system over the Internet and can access an overview of the planning data for a selection of materials. The vendor does not need to have a SAP System . The vendor can thus get an overview of the orders that you, as the manufacturer, have scheduled for the vendor in the near future, and can adjust planning accordingly.

Prerequisites

You have set up a user for each vendor in your system and allocated the user to the vendor in the user maintenance function over References.

Features

The planning data that can be displayed deals generally with the data that is saved as the planning run result in the MRP list. The system displays this data simultaneously in one long list for all the materials selected. You can expand or collapse the sub-lists within the whole list.

Which of the available data can be displayed depends on whether there is only one vendor (single-sourcing) or several vendors (multi-sourcing) for a material.

Single-sourcing: the system displays all requirements and receipt elements, which are assigned to the respective vendor, for the materials selected.

Multi-sourcing: the system does not display requirements and available quantities, but only the receipt elements, which are assigned to the respective vendor, for the materials selected. The system displays the receipt elements for other vendors but only on an anonymous basis.

The system also displays:

both the internal and external material number
ranges of coverage
rescheduling proposals
exception messages in text form

The vendor can sort the list with the data displayed as required, change the layout and total the receipts and requirements values.

Activities

Create Variant for the Report

Do not enter a vendor. If the external vendor logs on to your system and starts the report, the system automatically uses the vendor that is entered in the user master record.

Choose the display filter SAP_ALL for single-source materials and the display filter SAP_LIF1, SAP_LIF2 or SAP_LIF3 for multi-source materials. These filters are included in the standard system. You can, however, define your own filters (IMG activity Define display filter in Customizing for MRP).

If you do not want the vendor to see information about rival vendors, choose Only single-source materials.

If you do not want information that the MRP controller has not yet checked and released to be displayed, choose Only processed MRP lists.

Enter a plant (required entry field).

Hide at least the Vendor, Single-source display filter and Multi-source display filter fields and better still, all the fields in the group boxes View and Organizational unit. If you want the vendor to be able to enter further selections within the variant, these fields remain hidden from the vendor. SAP recommends, however, that the system administrator enters all the variants and that you do not grant the vendor access.

Insert the Report in a Role

Create a role for all or a group of external vendors who are to be handled in the same way (transaction pfcg, documentation for the maintenance of roles is included in the transaction itself) or choose an existing role that is suitable.

As standard, the report is delivered with the Role for vendors SAP_MM_PUR_SUPPLIER_LOGISTICS.

Insert the report together with a variant into the role. SAP recommends that you select the Skip selection screen field. The vendor then jumps straight to the list of results when starting the report and cannot enter any personal selections.

Enter the vendors as the users for the role.