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When releasing
order against contracts, plans or restrictions are automatically
considered.
Info
recordsare master data
that you use to store information about a vendor and a material at
purchasing organization or plant level. You can createpurchasing info recordsfor different procurement types (standard,
subcontracting, pipeline, or consignment).
Thesource listis used in the administration of
sources of supply. It specifies the allowed (and disallowed)
sources of a material for a certain plant within a predefined
period – for example a fixed vendor.
Aquota arrangementdivides the total requirement of a
material over a period among certain sources of supply by assigning
a quota to each source. You can use source lists and quota
arrangements to control which source will be assigned to a demand
in the manual or automated source determination
processes.
Pricing is used to describe the calculation of prices
for external use (by customers or vendors) and costs for internal
use, such as cost accounting. In this surrounding conditions
represent a set of circumstances that apply when a price is
calculated. This master data is stored in the form of condition
records.
The
system always carries out the message determination process when an
RFQ, a purchase order, a contract, an outline agreement, a
scheduling agreement release, or a standard delivery schedule is
created. It means that the system searches a message record whose
key combination matches up with the values from the relevant
purchasing document.
Vendor master records contain important data about
your vendors. You can also store data in the vendor master record
that applies to certain specific organizational level (for example,
company code, purchasing organization, plant) within your
enterprise.
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