Maintaining Vendor Master Records
Use
If you wish to store information on your vendors in the SAP System, the following functions are available:
Procedure
Create Vendor Master Record
Press ENTER and enter the necessary data on the subsequent screens that appear.
You can record the Terms of Payment that you agree with a vendor in the vendor master record. They automatically appear as default values in any purchase orders created for the vendor in question; however, you can change them as needed.
Terms of payment can also be entered in the vendor's invoice. These are then applied by the payment program.
Change Vendor Master Record
Block Vendors
Suppose you would like to prevent further deliveries from a vendor who has supplied goods of poor quality. You can freeze or "block" the vendor account in the vendor master record.
Once you have set the blocking indicator in the vendor master record, purchase orders can no longer be placed with this vendor. The "blocked" status for the vendor applies until such time as you cancel the blocking indicator.
To block a vendor, proceed as follows:
If QM is active within the procurement function, you can impose a block for quality reasons. (See the documentation Quality Management (QM)
Click to save your input.
You can block a vendor for an individual material via the source list.
For more information, refer to the section
Use One-Time-Vendor
You can create special vendor master records for vendors from whom you procure goods only once or rarely, so-called
One-Time Vendor Master Records.For example, suppose you order goods from a vendor with whom you usually do not place orders, because your main vendor was not able to supply the required items. In this case, you would use a "one-time vendor" master record.
In contrast to other master records, a "one-time vendor" master record is used for several vendors. The purpose of this is to avoid the unnecessary creation of an excessive number of individual vendor master records. For this reason, you may not store any vendor-specific data in a "one-time vendor" master record.
When creating a "one-time vendor" master record, you must assign a one-time account group. This account group determines that the vendor-specific fields are suppressed. You don’t need to enter this data until the time a purchasing document (e.g. a PO) is created.
When you create a purchasing document with a one-time vendor, you will be asked to enter the vendor address. Enter the vendor’s name and address.
Like all other master records, you can display, block, or delete one-time vendor master records.
Display List of Vendors
You can create a list of different vendors. This list contains important information on individual vendors: the purchasing organizations for which material was procured from a vendor, the terms of payment, and the blocking status of the vendor, for example.