0vendor - flag for inactive vendors

Question

Hello Experts,
I have a requirement for a flag in 0VENDOR Infoobject to find the inactive vendors.
This falg should be set for those vendors who have no Purchase order/ Logistic Invoice created in the past 18 months.
Is it possible to get the desired result through 2LIS_02_ITM or 2LIS_02_INV? If yes then how this can be achieved through trasformation?
Thanks,
Jaibir

Answer 1

Hi,
  Ideally this does not constitute as master data, since you are checking vendors based on transactional data namely purchase orders.
What you can do is create a report with restricted key figure with restriction on cal month(document date) for the last 18 months. You will therefore get the vendors which are active for the last 18 months.
Another way that I can think of is to create a DSO, which holds the vendor no and date of invoice/po loaded from a datasource say 2lis_02_scl or 2lis_02_hdr(anything which gives you the document date and the vendor number).
When you activate the datasource request the active table will then hold the last date for an order for that vendor. Then load data from this active table to the infoobject. Create a field say no of months in the info object.. While loading to the infoobject , calculate the no. of months between the document date and the current date.
Please note that these are all ideas and I cannot guarantee that this will work.....would be nice if it did tho.
Hope this helps.
Regards.