Consolidation of Suppliers' Products 

Purpose

You can use this process to perform a consolidation as part of third-party processing by source determination. The suppliers do not deliver the confirmed quantities directly to the customer, but to a consolidation location. You deliver the products from the consolidation location to the customer.

Prerequisites

·        You have made all the settings for consolidation and for third-party processing by source determination. For more information, see Making Settings for Consolidation and Making Settings for Source Determination.

·        You have deactivated Controlling for SD in table TRWCA in the SAP ERP Central Component (SAP ECC).

SAP ECC can only create a purchase order that is assigned to a sales order stock from Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM) if Controlling is deactivated in SD. 

Process Flow

       1.      The process can start with or without a rules-based ATP check.

¡        With rules-based ATP check

The system carries out a rules-based ATP check and determines at least one rule for which you have specified a consolidation location. Alternatively, SAP CRM transfers a consolidation location to the rules-based ATP check.

Third-party processing by source determination is also activated at one of the following points:

§         In the location determination activity of a substitution from the rule

§         In the check instructions

¡        Without rules-based ATP check

SAP CRM transfers a consolidation location to Global ATP.

Third-party order processing by source determination is also activated in the check instructions.

       2.      The system performs source determination based on information records or contracts (depending on the source determination method you specified in the check instructions).

Note that the system does not perform source determination based on scheduling agreements if the consolidation is activated.

       3.      The system transfers the information to SAP CRM.

       4.      You save the sales order in SAP CRM.

The system carries out the following steps once the sales order has been saved:

¡        The system creates stock transport requisitions for requirements that arise from the substitutions of the rule.

¡        The system triggers the creation of a planned purchase order in SAP SCM for requirements from supplier locations. The supplier is specified as the supplying location in the planned purchase order, and the consolidation location as the receiving location.

If the latest order creation date is before the current date, SAP CRM triggers the creation of a purchase order in SAP ECC.

¡        SAP SCM updates the requirements in the consolidation location.

The system stores the order items of the requirements from supplier locations with the special stock indicator Sales Order Stock (E). The special stock indicator links the requirement to the goods receipt in the consolidation location. It also ensures that the system does not identify the goods receipt as unrestricted-use stock and assigns it to another sales order due to an event-driven quantity assignment.

       5.      The system transfers the information from the sales order to SAP ECC.

       6.      SAP ECC creates an unchecked delivery.

The unchecked delivery is required to create a checked delivery. In this way, products can be delivered from the consolidation location to the customer.

       7.      In SAP SCM, you use the Convert Planned Purchase Orders report to trigger the conversion of the planned purchase order into a purchase order through SAP CRM in SAP ECC.

       8.      SAP ECC creates a purchase order with the special stock indicator Sales Order Stock (E).

The special stock indicator links the purchase order to the delivery in the consolidation location.

The purchase order exists between supplier (supplying location) and consolidation location (receiving location).

       9.      SAP ECC transfers the purchase order to SAP SCM.

SAP SCM requires the purchase order in the consolidation location since the requirements from the sales order are in the consolidation location, meaning that a goods issue must take place from this location.

   10.      The supplier receives the purchase order and can send a confirmation. The confirmation updates the purchase order in SAP ECC.

   11.      SAP ECC triggers the update of the purchase order in SAP SCM and the sales order in SAP CRM.

   12.      SAP ECC receives a shipping notification from the supplier when the products have been delivered. The shipping notification replaces the purchase order in SAP SCM.

   13.      SAP SCM posts a goods receipt in Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) when the products are delivered to the consolidation location. The goods receipt updates the stock in SAP ECC and SAP SCM.

Note that a goods receipt is required in this process. Only a statistical goods receipt is required for third-party processing without consolidation.