You can maintain the quota file in Purchasing or MRP. In this section, a description is given of how to maintain this file from Material Requirements Planning.

1. Starting from the MRP menu, choose Master data ® Quota maintenance.

The initial screen for maintaining quota appears.

2. Enter the material number and the plant for the material that you want to use to maintain the quota file and choose .

The header screen for maintaining quotas appears.

3. Enter the Valid to date for the quota arrangement item.

You can only define continuous validity periods for one material. In the first interval, the system sets the current date in the Valid from field. The Valid from dates of the other intervals are set continuously so that the day after the end date of the last quota item is set as the start date for the next item.

4. If you want to work with splitting quota arrangements, enter a minimum quantity here.
5. Double-click on the item that you want to process.

The item screen now appears.

6. Define the source of supply and other control parameters per item.

Allocating the source of supply to the quota item determines the procurement type that the procurement proposal receives. Therefore, you can specify via the quota arrangement that, for example, 60% of a material is produced in-house and the other 40% is procured externally.

7. Save your entries.