This section shows you how to:
Display the quota arrangement for a material
Display changes to a quota arrangement
List and maintain the quota arrangements of several materials
Simulate automatic source determination
Analyze quota arrangement items
(for example, check the quota arrangements that contain no quota arrangement records in a specified period)
Revise a quota arrangement
Choose
Enter the material and plant number. Then pressENTER to display the overview screen.
You can display individual records quota arrangement records by selecting a quota arrangement and choosing
Each change to a quota arrangement is logged. This provides an audit trail of changes.
The log shows:
What was changed (old and new values)
When the quota arrangement item in question was changed
Who changed it
You can display changes made to a quota arrangement as follows:
Choose
Specify the selection criteria for the changes. You can enter:
– Material and plant (mandatory)
– User name of the person responsible whose changes you wish to display (optional)
– Date as of which the changes are to be displayed (optional)
Display the changes you are interested in.
You can list the quota arrangements of all materials. In addition, you can maintain an individual quota arrangement from the list.
Choose
Enter the interval of material numbers or plants for which you wish to display the quota arrangement items.
Display the list of the quota arrangement items you are interested in.
To display the material master record, select the relevant quota arrangement item and choose
Select the quota arrangement item to be changed or maintained, and choose
You can simulate the process of source determination for a material subject to a quota arrangement. That is to say, you can determine which source would be suggested in a purchase requisition for the material on a certain date. In this way, you can check whether the quota arrangement items on which the process of automatic determination of the source of supply is based have been correctly maintained.
For more information on the determination of sources of supply, refer to the section Optimized Purchasing .
Types of Simulation
You can simulate the following:
Which sources of supply would be determined if the quota arrangement were the only source identification option (that is, source determination is carried out without taking outline agreements, info records, or source lists into account)
Which sources of supply would be determined by the system (that is, taking outline agreements, info records, quota arrangements, and source lists into account)
Procedure
To simulate the source determination process, proceed as follows
From the overview screen for quota arrangement periods, choose:
ENTER, you must specify the order date for which the simulation is to be carried out.
PressENTER to display the source of supply that the system would determine according to the quota arrangement or other sourcing options.
Use the quota arrangement analysis option to list the materials of a plant for which no quota arrangements exist within a certain period. In this way, you can find out which materials have quota arrangements that are incompletely maintained.
Choose
.Enter the interval of material numbers or the plants for which you wish to analyze the quota arrangement items.
Specify the scope of the analysis. You can narrow it down according to the following criteria:
– Start and end dates of a validity period containing a quota arrangement for the specified material
– Interval of quota arrangement numbers
– Time frame for the quota arrangements to be analyzed
Choose
Maintain quota arrangement: Select the quota arrangement item to be changed or maintained, and choose
Display material master record: Select the quota arrangement item whose material master record you wish to display. Choose