| quota arrangement (MM-PUR) |
A mechanism enabling the system to compute which source of supply to assign to a requirement for a material.
The quota arrangement facilitates the determination of the applicable sources of supply for a purchase requisition at a certain time.
Setting quotas permits the automatic apportionment of a total material requirement over a period to different sources.
A quota arrangement consists of quota arrangement records identifying the source (such as a vendor or an internal plant), the validity period, and the quota.