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Function documentation Additionals: Additionals Procedure Assignment to Vendors and Customers Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Use

You can assign vendors and customers procedures for additionals. The system analyzes the assignments as follows:

·        Procedure for additionals/vendor

When a purchasing document is created, the system checks if the vendor can carry out the procedure for every additional involved.

·        Procedure for additionals/customer

When a sales document is created for a sales order received by EDI, the system converts the procedure for additionals transferred by the customer to the procedure for additional defined in your system.

Prerequisites

·        Procedure for additionals/vendor

The system only checks if a vendor can carry out the procedure for the additional if you maintained the control table for the Purchasing application in the Customizing settings for the procedure concerned. You have to activate the assignment check by selecting a flag.

·        Procedure for additionals/customer

The system only converts an external procedure for an additional to one of your own procedures if you maintained the control table for the Sales Order application in the Customizing settings for your own additional. You have to activate the assignment check by selecting a flag.

Features

Procedure for Additionals/Vendor

You make this assignment in your capacity as a customer if you want to transfer purchasing documents containing additionals data to a vendor.

Once you have assigned a procedure for an additional to a vendor, whenever a purchasing document is created for the vendor, the system checks which additionals the vendor can process. The assignments can be maintained via the additionals menu (Mass maintenance ® Method/vendor) or via the transaction WTAD_SUP_FM_CHANGE.

The system checks every document item and analyzes all the additionals assigned in the article master record.  Only those additionals are included in the purchasing document  whose procedure for additionals is assigned to the vendor.

Procedure for Additionals/Customer

You make this assignment in your capacity as a vendor if a customer wants to transfer purchase orders containing additionals data to your system by EDI and if you want to generate sales documents for these purchase orders.

If a sales document is generated for a customer purchase order received by EDI, the additionals data has to be created in the sales document in exactly the same way as in the purchasing document. A customer can, for example, transfer information on vendor ticketing or pre-packing in a purchase order. The vendor has to include this data in the sales order.

If the purchasing document originates from an external system, the procedure for additionals specified by the customer has to be converted to an internal procedure for additionals in the vendor system. Assignments between internal and external procedures for additionals can be maintained in the vendor system for each customer. The assignments can be maintained via the additionals menu (Mass maintenance ® Method/customer) or via the transaction WTAD_FMCU_CHANGE.

This enables you to avoid having to maintain a large number of customer-specific procedures for additionals. Although every customer may use a different name for their procedures, the actual procedures used in practice are mostly the same or very similarly.

 

 

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