Assign Source of Supply for Services

Hi,
I understand that Materials has source list and the system can actually suggest possible vendors for the material via t-code ME25.
However, I am now dealing with services with service master defined and service conditions maintained. I can create PR via ME51 and assign source of supply but I can't do this for PO via ME25 as that is catered for materials only (even if I entered item category D, it shows as a material PO).
My question is, is there any default SAP transactions that allow me to create a service PO with the Assign source supply function? If no, what kind of enhancements can I look into to achieve this?
Thanks!

Hi,
In a normal PO there is no auto assignment of sources so I am not sure why you think that there might be for a services PO?
Remember that to create a PO, you have to specify the vendor first, so how can it assign a source automatically if you have to manually enter the source before you can do anything?
If you are creating a PO with reference to a requisition or contract, again there is no auto source allocation because the source is being taken from the requisition.
So you need to try to allocate the source to the requistion and not the PO
Steve B

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Source of supply for Service request.
In the customizing for external source of supply, I am making the customizing at client level
SPRO (IMG) -> Materials Management -> External Services Management ->
Source Determination and Default Values -> for Client
In Source determination I have checked the customizing to consider
A. Material group at item level
B. And I am also selecting one of the 3 below at service level.
1.     All service
2.     At least one service
3.     No search at service level
Issue is, the source list I get in ME51N for a given purchase request item is considering only the material group customizing.
I do not see any change in the source list out of making change in the customizing at service level(Customizing B above).
So, is there any other customizing or other case which determines the list.
In short , I am getting same result in the source list irrespective of the customizing I do at service level (Customizing B above).

Hello David,
System assign only one supplier for one PR and even with the quota arrangement also if you have multiple proposals then the system assign the same supplier for all the proposals this is standard behavior you can add this to ideas forum.
kindly submit it to SAP via the SAP Idea Forum.
- Open the Help on the too right of the system.
- Click "Make SAP Business ByDesign better", it
will lead you to the idea forum.
- Submit your new feature in the forum. SAP will review your
new feature requests form customers or partners and plan it in the future
releases after valuation.
Regards,
Suresh.

Sources of supply for services?

Hi friends
what are the Sources of supply for services
Regards
Raj Kumar

Hi,
Sources of Supply for services are as given below:
---Vendor List
Contract
Quota arrangment
Last PO
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AMIT

Assign Source of supply is not working for contract with material group

Dear Experts,
I have searched all the threads and gone through before posting my query. So i would ask moderators to go through the thread properly before rejecting this.
We have value contracts with respect to a particular material group without material and with item category W in the contract item, Please note that for the materials with this material group, the source determination is not set and source list is also not maintained.
When we create PR for the material with this contract, and when we click on assign source of supply contracts used to get popped up, but recently from few days, when we click on assign source of supply we are getting an error " no source found for this item ".
Can anybody help on this.
Regards

@ Biju,
As mentioned earlier, we are not creating PR with reference to contract.
first we are creating contract with item category W (material group), without material and plant details.
we create PR with or without material with account assignment K and with the material group in the transaction ME51N, and after inputting all the fields, we click on assign source of supply, it was proposing the existing contracts with respect to material group earlier, but it is not happening for particular material group(it is working for all other material groups)
Hope it is clear.
@ Dev Patra,
we are using DIEN-Service material types and we assign that particular material group to only service material type.
we have not ticked, source list in the material master, we donot have any source list for the materials under that material group.( please check the note 457110- question number 14.)
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Assign Source of Supply at Header Level of SC for single Supplier

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We are in SRM7.0 and EHP4.
The requirement is : User is creating a SC for 50 line items to a single supplier. In SRM7.0 User not able to find the Button Assign Source of supply at Header Level. I know it is at item level and it is very painful from user point of you going to individual line item details and assiging the same Source of Supply 50 Times.
The design is Once Source of supply assigned. It leads to Auto PO after SC status changes to approved.
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Giri

Hi Masa,
As I Mentioned in my Initial thread. We are using Auto PO. Once the Shopping cart under go 2 step Approval Process. Once the status is completly approved, Auto PO is created.
Pre negotiated vendors for product commedities are available for the SC requestor to select and the list of supplier to Product commedities is available to requestor.
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2ns Step Approval - Buyer check the Price in SC as per Vendor Negotiated rate and Approves and Approved staus SC result in Auto PO to Vendor.
Business do not want change the above process and it is configured as per business and delivered. Only difficulty they are faceing is when creating SC for Same vendor with multiple line items. They need to go Individual Item details and assign the source of supply. It is pain full for them. If the SC is created for multiple line items to same vendor. They want to assign the vendor at header level of SC, Instead of going to Individual item and assign the vendor in SRM 7.0
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Giri
Thanks
Giri

Sources of supply for product

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Why can i remove assigned vendor in the shopping cart (Sources of supply for product/Service Agent) when i choose a product from the "Internal Good/services" way, but i can´t remove it when i choose it from the SRM-MDM Catalog way???? the thing is that we have a contract for this product but in different ways we can remove and another way we can not...
We dont know if this is a bug... or what.
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10x
Pp.

Hi Jose,
the catalog consists the agreed price list of the products with one specific vendor, therefore neither the vendor can be removed nor the price can be changed.
This is the standard behavior.
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Peter

Assign Source of Supply User Exit with Quota Arrangements in ME57 and ME56

Hi there,
We are using Quota Arrangements to define Vendor rebate levels and we have enabled User Exit EXIT_SAPLMEQR_001 to provide a more informative popup to replace standard Source of Supply popup as need to display current allocation quantities and % allocation fulfiled.
This User Exit is invoked during Assign Source of Supply during PReq processing (More precisely during Assign Source of Supply in ME51n and Automatic Source of Supply in ME57 and ME56) which all works fine.
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Ben

Hello Jerry,
source will be determine based on the following points:
Outline Agreement
Info record
Quota Arrangement
Source List
For more information, <a href="http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/75/ee11b255c811d189900000e8322d00/content.htm">Click here</a>
Hope this helps.
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I have a PR that automatically created from SO.
I have already created outline agreement for each material in PO and created source list (with fix indicator) too.
But when I click "Assign source of supply" button in PR, system ask me to choose between outline agreement and info record.
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Duangsamorn.

Hi Duang,
When you create the PR manually , guess that you are not selcting the source list check box ( tick
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Steps followed:
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and then transfered to sourcing cockpit. We got the green message
transfered to sourcing.
3) We tried to access the same PR in Assign Source of supply in central
function. But we could not access the the PR. The message is "No
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Any clue or solution to this Issue. ??
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SK

Hi Manjunath,
In BBP_PD SC is created
In SXMB_MONI in SRM, ECC and PI/XI system everything looks ok
I am a SRM Tech Consultant Did not understand from NOTE 1263876.
When I go for "Assign Sources of Supply" under Central function
I do not get any result...I get message
"No requisition found; verify your entries "
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SK

PR - unable to assign source of supply

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Hi,
What i can understand is that you have created a purchase requisition and now you want to assign a source for the item through auto source determination in PR change transaction(ME52n) by clicking on the assign source of supply tab in the item details in source of supply tab page.
If its so Pl. check in the check box " source Determination" at the top next to the PR No. and then try.
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Prithviraj

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Points will be given
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Define fixed indicator in the source of supply , and set the source list usage of MRP to "1 "
Below is help from sap:
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Determining the Source of Supply via the Source List
The system first checks whether a quota arrangement has been maintained for the material, which has a validity period that covers the requirements date of the purchase requisition.
It then checks whether only one entry exists in the source list that is relevant to MRP. The indicator for source list usage must therefore be set for a particular vendor so that purchase requisitions and delivery schedules, which are created during the planning run, are automatically assigned to this vendor. In the case of a delivery schedule, you must also have maintained a scheduling agreement for this entry.
If you have maintained all the entries correctly, the system creates a purchase requisition with the source of supply that is recorded in the source list.

Proposed vs. assigned source of supply

Hello Experts,
I have the following scenario:
We are using SRM 5.0, extended classic scenario and have a requirement in which a material without an SAP number is selected from a catalog (something similar to a 3rd party catalog).
However, each material in this catalog have all the information needed such as price, vendor, description, etc.
However, when this is sent to the shopping cart, the vendor is assigned as a proposed source of supply, instead of an assigned source of supply. Because of this, this requirement is sent to the Sourcing Cockpit, which we don't want to to, since all information needed is already there, and is should automatically create a Purchase Order.
Is it possible to do this?
If so, which BADI's should we use?
Regards,
Gilberto Gallardo

Hi
Using BBPDOC_CHANGE_BADI, we have done this several times._
Also, we can go for BBPCATALOG_TRANSFER BADI..._
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Missing Name in BBP_PD_SC_GETDETAIL
Re: I cannot access "Supplier Catalogue no" in BBP_DOC_CHANGE_BADI
Re: partner functions for vendor master in SRM
Re: Partner functions OA and IP missing for Vendor in Extended classic PO
How to select Vendor information as per the line item of the shopping cart
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Assign Source of Supply - Inforecord

Hello guys!
Do you know if can be possible to assign a source of supply at a Purchase Requisition but where the inforecord isn´t brought too?
Is there any IMG activity where i can customize this?
Now, if an inforecord exists for a certain vendor-material and i press "Assign Source of Supply" button, this inforecord is always showed.
Thank you very much for your help.
Regards,
cecil

Hello,
Please maintain source list .
You define source list requirements at plant level. If a source list requirement exists, you must maintain the source list for each material before you can order it.
The source list serves:
To define a source of supply as "fixed". Such sources count as preferred sources over a certain period of time. For example, the fixed vendor XXXX for material 100XX is ASA Company for the first quarter and BSB Co. for the second quarter of the year.
Select the plants for which you wish to specify a source list requirement
You use the source list to determine the valid source of supply at a certain point in time.
The source list contains all the sources of supply defined for a material and the periods during which procurement from these sources is possible
Following T/Code activities in Material Management module.
Maintain source list - ME01
Display source list - ME03
Display changes to source list - ME04
Analyze source list - ME06
Reorganize source list - ME07
Generate source list - ME05
Display source list for material- ME0M
you make the system settings that are necessary for purchasing operations carried out using source lists.
Source list requirement for materials, It may be necessary to include possible vendors of a material in the source list before the material can be ordered.
The Source list requirement field in the purchasing data of the material master record indicates whether a source list requirement exists for a material.
You can define the Source list requirement at plant level in IMG. Logistics -->Materials management --> Purchasing --> Source list.
Here you can see the plants for which a source list requirement exists.
Reward if useful
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I want to know if it is possible to control or check the PReq after assign source of supply with ME57. My explanation, I have a release strategy on the u201CSource of supplyu201D if it is null. When I create a PReq with the MRP by default the release strategy appear because there is no Source of supply. If I go with ME52N and put a Source of supply my release strategy disappear but if I use ME57 to assign the release stay there until I use the transaction ME52N to control(check) it. Do you know if it possible to force the control(check) with ME57?
Regards.

Hi Duang,
When you create the PR manually , guess that you are not selcting the source list check box ( tick
in the ME51N screen ),hope this should be the reason for the difference in behavior.
Please select the tick box when you create PR in ME51N, then the manual PR also will not auto select
the Vendor. Please test & confirm the behavior after check box selected.

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Thank you,
Kind Regards,
Jackie Jones

Hi,
I have just tried this in our system and found some that did not have the flag set (I checked for MRP generated requisitions where the Assigned was equal to spaces and the fixed vendor flag was NOT equal to spaces)
There were not many but I was suprised to find even one.
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I will have a look to see if I can see why it is not set sometimes and I will let you know if I find anything.
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