Vendor Master 
Use
Vendor master records in the AFS system allow you to not only enter general information regarding your vendors (such as the vendor’s name and address and terms of payment), but also AFS-specific data.
Activities
Enter the AFS-specific information regarding a vendor from whom you want to obtain AFS materials in the purchasing data of the corresponding vendor master.
- If you want to specify conditions in purchase requisitions and purchase orders at SKU level or at price group level, choose the Schema group, vendor
J1 in the group box Conditions. You can find more information in the documentation on Pricing.
If you use the source allocation, enter the following information in the purchasing data of the vendor master record (Environment ®
AFS additional data).
- Specify the factory status which valuates the relationship between you and your vendor and which is a
Criterion for the Vendor Ranking.
Determine whether different purchase requisitions which are assigned to the same vendor during a source allocation run should be grouped into one purchase requisition. Then select the combine pur reqs indicator.
- If grid values from master grids and purchasing grids are to be converted to a vendor in purchase orders (for example, into another language), choose Environment ®
AFS additional data. Then select a conversion indicator that you have defined in Customizing by using the input help in the field Vendor ID.
You can find further information in the documentation on
Source Allocation 
and Dimension Conversion.