Manufacturer Part Number
You can use this function to inform your suppliers, through a purchase order, which manufacturers you wish to use in the procurement of materials. You can also include the manufacturer part number and description in the purchase order to provide the supplier with specific information about the parts that you want to procure. This ensures that you get the quality of materials you want from your preferred source. In SAP Supplier Relationship Management the manufacturer part number information is enabled on the item level for RFxs, contracts, External Requirement documents, sourcing, and purchasing orders.
Prerequisites
You have activated the business function SRM, Cross-Industry Functions (SRM_CROSS_INDUSTRY_1
). Note that you can only use this business function in conjunction with
the business function SRM, Procurement for Public Sector (SRM_PUBLIC_SECTOR_1
). In other words, you must activate both business functions.
Features
This function contains the following features:
Creating Sales Orders and Purchase Requisitions
The system transfers purchase requisition data from SAP ERP to SAP SRM using external requirements based on Manufacturer Part Number (MPN) information. The external requirement contains information about the manufacturer and manufacturer part number which is transferred to SAP SRM.
Maintaining Contracts
When maintaining contracts the information about manufacturer and manufacturer part number must be part of contract item data. The SAP SRM system fills in the information about the manufacturer and MPN on the contract item level and search help is available for both manufacturer and MPN fields to make searching easier. Once a manufacturer part number has been entered or selected, the corresponding SAP SRM short text and product number is displayed.
Maintaining Purchase Orders
When manually maintaining a purchase order the MPN data has to be correct. The SAP SRM system fills in the data for manufacturer and manufacturer part number on purchase order item level and enables search help for both manufacturer and manufacturer part number fields. Once a manufacturer part number has been entered or selected, the corresponding short text and product number is displayed.
Sourcing
The SAP SRM system provides the definition and development of sourcing rules that process manufacturer and manufacturer part number information.
Purchase Order Replication
If goods receipt and invoice receipt take place in SAP ERP, the corresponding purchase order is created automatically by replication from the SAP SRM system. The replication takes place when purchase order is released and approved in the SAP SRM system.
Rfx
The user can manually start the RFx process if no contract exists for the MPN. The RFx document has to be enabled to copy the information about MPN and manufacturer on line item level. The SAP SRM system fills the data fields for manufacturer and manufacturer part number on RFx item level. The SAP SRM system enables search help for both manufacturer and manufacturer part number fields. Once a manufacturer part number has been entered or selected, the corresponding SAP SRM short text and product number are displayed.