Determination of the Supplier

Use

This function enables the system or user to determine the suppliers (force elements) responsible for supplying a particular force element (domestic base, operation, or exercise) with non-consumable goods as well as with individual and bulk consumable goods.

For more information about the processes, see Materials Management .

Prerequisites

You have defined supply relationships for the force elements to be provided with supplies.

You have defined force providers or initial suppliers of materials for operational or exercise force elements. See also Operational/Exercise Relationships .

If necessary, you have defined the determination of suppliers with regard to stock transport orders. For more information, see the IMG activity BAdI: Activate Stock Transfer Processing for Issuing Storage Location under Start of the navigation path Defense Forces and Public Security Next navigation step Materials Management Business Add-Ins End of the navigation path .

In Customizing for Materials Management , you have activated the stock transfer between storage locations by choosing Start of the navigation path Purchasing Next navigation step Purchase Order Set Up Stock Transport Order Set Up Stock Transfer Between Storage Locations Activate Stock Transfer Between Storage Locations End of the navigation path .

To utilize the supply relationship, you have to adjust in Customizing the special procurement key that you want to use:

To do so, choose Materials Management Consumption-Based Planning Master Data Define Special Procurement Types .

In this IMG activity, you can create the relevant special procurement keys for each plant. To maintain the special procurement key that you are using, go to the detail view.
Enter External procurement as the procurement type.
In the Special Procurement field, enter the value U for stock transfer.
Choose Enter and confirm the warning message that appears.

The new fields Addnl Info for BAdI and Plant are displayed.
In the Plant field, enter the stock transfer plant.
In the Addnl Info for BAdI field, enter a parameter for the Business Add-In (BAdI) MD_EXT_SUP. This is customer-specific additional information, such as an indicator, storage location, or MRP area.
Save the special procurement key.
Assign this special procurement key in the MRP area data for the relevant materials.

You can define rules for customer-defined supplier determination using Business Add-In /ISDFPS/BD_FORSUP_GET_RELATS. For more information, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) under Start of the navigation path Defense Forces& Public Security Next navigation step Organizational Flexibility Command and Support Relationships BAdI: Define Supplier Determination End of the navigation path .

The system can only determine a supplier using implementation /ISDFPS/BADI_IM_ORSUP_GET_ RELS if a supply relationship is valid on the key date for the force element concerned. Otherwise, it is not possible to determine a supplier.
Example implementation /ISDFPS/BADI_IM_ORSUP_GET_ RELS1 allows the system to determine a supplier for a force element independently of its validity period using the next occurring supply relationship if a valid supply relationship cannot be determined for the key date. This allows supply relationships that will only become valid in the future to be used early.

Features

Domestic base

In the domestic base, force elements are always supplied with non-consumable goods and with individual and bulk consumable goods on the basis of the supply relationships defined between force elements. Unless otherwise specified, a distinction is always made between external material groups.

Note Note

If a suitable supplier cannot be found for a material group in order to supply a force element with non-consumable goods, the system searches across the organizational structure for the next suitable supplier. In the case of individual and bulk consumable goods, the system does not carry out this inheritance explosion.

End of the note.

Operation/exercise

Force elements are supplied with non-consumable goods and individual/bulk consumable goods during an operation (or exercise) on the basis of supply relationships, as is the case with the domestic base.

The force provider defined in a contingent assignment is responsible for initially supplying an operational or exercise force element with non-consumable goods and individual/bulk consumable goods (in the case of individual/bulk consumable goods, this force provider also overrides any initial suppliers of materials defined for these goods).

Special case

When you assign provisions packages to force elements, you can specify that the provisions are managed by the supplier . The supply processes are then carried out via this supplier.

In Customizing, you can specify that the provisions packages that are managed by the supplier are also taken into consideration for the initial supply of individual/bulk consumable goods. You do so in the IMG activity Parameter for Controlling the Initial Supply of Provisions Packages by choosing Start of the navigation path Defense Forces and Public Security Next navigation step Materials Management End of the navigation path . These provisions packages are usually taken into consideration only when the supplier carries out the initial supply run.