Use
You can maintain source list records for individual sources of a material as follows:
Manual maintenance
Use this method if you have to make numerous changes to, or new entries in, the source list.
Maintenance from within an outline agreement
With this procedure, you can adopt an outline agreement item in the source list when creating or changing an outline agreement.
Maintenance from within an info record
With this procedure, you can enter a vendor in the source list when creating or changing a purchasing info record.
Automatic maintenance
You can have a source list for a material created automatically. The system creates a source list record for each info record that has been defined for the material or for each outline agreement item in which the material is specified.
Prerequisites
Before you create a source list, you must consider the following points:
To determine whether a source list requirement exists for a plant, display the SAP Reference IMG:
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From the system menu, choose Tools ® Business Engineer ® Customizing ® Implementation projects ® Display SAP Reference IMG.-
You can define the Source list requirement at plant level in Customizing for Logistics under Materials management ® Purchasing ® Source list. Here you can see the plants for which a source list requirement exists.