ME51N - Source determination flag

Dear All,
pls explain me how to set the source determination flag as mandatory field in ME51N (User has to flag on).
Tks
Sujith

To make mandatory:
MM>Purchase>PR-->Define screen layout at document level
To make this field checked automatically:
allocate an EVO prameter to the userid in SU01 or SU3 that has the flag as defaulted on.
SPRO - MM > Purchasing > Environment data > Define default values for buyers - Select one and you will find that the tab of Source determination has the flag you need.
Regards,
Indranil

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Source Determination flag in ME51N

Hi All,
I want to set Source determination flag on as default setting in me51n (NB document type). That should be common for all the users. Setting the default value in personal setting will not be worked. Could you pls tell me how to configure.
Tks
Sujith

Hello Sujith
If you want the source determination field to be default for all users, one of way to achieve this is you manina source list with fixed vendor with ME01 T-code.
Also info record (ME11) must be present for that vendor material combination in the system
If both of the above source lsit and info records are mainatined , the source will be automatically determined when you chcek the tick box in purchase requistion.
All the users should be grouped under one purchasing group which should be used in info record for that vendor materail combination.
Either way with the help of screen control settings you can make source determination filed as REQUIRED Filed, so that purchase requisition will not be saved unlesss source is determined in purchase requistion.
Note : To determine the source in purchase requistion, source list and info records are mandatory.
I hope this helps.
Br,
Tushar

ME52N - Automatic source determination fails

Hello experts!
i have detected an issue at my system when i set the Automatic
Source Determination flag when i change a Purchase Requisition at
ME52N.
Here is the situation.
If we set this flag at the PR creation (ME51N), the source
determination is well done.
However, if the user forgets to set flag "Auto Source Determination" at
the PR creation, at ME52N when it is set, the Source is not
determinate automatically...
If you press button "Assign Source", it is brought to the PR correctly.
Is there any OSS Note that solves this mistake??
Thank you very much in advance.
Regards,
cecil

Hi Maria
The header level "source determination" check box is intended for getting the appropriate source for <b>each</b> PR line items while <b>creation</b>.
As you have created PR lines already without choosing this option, now by simple selection in ME52N will not assign source. You have to use source assignment at individual item level.
warm regards
sairam akundi

Default source determination in PR creation

Hi
How can we make defualt check on source determination in manual PR creation process. Meaning everytime user opens PR screen vide ME51N, source determination should be checked by default.(without manual intervention)
Thanks
Dinabandhu

HI,
You can maintain the default source determination indicator in PR using the following settings.
SPRO - MM - Purchasing - Environment Data - Define Default Values for Buyers
You can create a default value & In the source determination tab, you can maintain the source determination check for PR.
After creating the default value, you can maintain the same in the user master (SU01) in Parameters tab against the parameter id - EVO.
Thanks & Regards,

Auto Tick Source Determination in PR

Hi Everyone,
How can I make the Source Determination checkbox in ME51N to be ticked by default?
Please bare in mind that choosing that Check Box from the Personal Settings of each user is not a viable solution for our business.
Any Suggestions?
Thanks & Best Regards,
Yousif

Hi Sachin,
this will just make the field mandatory, it will not tick it automatically.
To set this flag automatically, allocate an EVO prameter to the userid that has the flag as defaulted on.
SPRO - MM > Purchasing > Environment data > Define default values for buyers - Select one and you will find that the laast tab has the flag you need.
Steve B

Source determination,Quota Arrangement Process

Hi,
Plz tell me how to maintain Source determination,Quota Arrangement.step by step

Dear,
QUOTA ARRANGEMENTS
If a quota arrangement exists for a material, it has the highest priority during source determination. Like source list, the quota arrangement facilitates the administration of sources of supply at plant level.
If you procure a material from different suppliers, you can assign a quota to each individual supplier. A quota arrangement applies to a certain period and specifies how the receipts should be distributed among each source of supply.
If a quota arrangement exists, this does not mean that the quantity of a single manually created purchase requisition is automatically apportioned among different sources. In such case, the entire quantity of the requisition is assigned to one source u2013 the source that is next in line receive the relevant order.
Before you can maintain a quota arrangement item with the procurement type external procurement, a source of supply (info record and / or outline agreement) must exists.
Create quota arrangement:
LOGISTICS u2013MATERIAL MANAGEMENT u2013 PURCHASING u2013 MASTER DATA u2013 QUOTA ARRANGEMNET u2013 MAINTAIN.
Specify number ranges for quota arrangement:
SAP IMG u2013 MATERIAL MANAGEMENT u2013 PURCHASING u2013 QUOTA ARRANGEMENT u2013 DEFINE NUMBER RANGES.
You must specify the business application for which quotation arrangement will be used, for example: in material planning or in purchase requisitions. You make this specification in QUOTA ARRANGEMENT USAGE filed, which is to be found in the plant-specific purchasing/materials planning data of the material master record.
Set quota arrangement usage indicator:
SAP IMG u2013 MATERIALS MANAGEMENT u2013 PURCHASING u2013 QUOTA ARRANGEMENT u2013 DEFINE QUOTA ARRANGEMENT USAGE.
System assign quota rating to each source by calculation as u2013 Quota rating = (quota allocated quantity + quota base quantity / quota).
ADDITIONAL ASPECTS OF SUPPLY SOURCE DETERMINATION
Quota arrangements also can be source of supply.
Quota arrangements for material requirements arising over a certain period divided up among different sources on basis of quota. Quota arrangements determine which source of supply is automatically assigned to a purchase requisition.
SOURCE DETERMINATION
The purpose of the source determination process is to automatically assign a source of supply to a purchase requisition, if source determination indicator set in the requisition header, the system searches for possible sources of supply for all the items of the requisition. Quota arrangements also can be source of supply.
In source list specify a preferred source as fixed for a certain period, the system suggest just only this source, even if other potential sources exists.
Quota arrangements for material requirements arising over a certain period divided up among different sources on basis of quota. Quota arrangements determine which source of supply is automatically assigned to a purchase requisition.
Source list record consists of the following:
1.Validity period u2013 Period of validity
2.Key source data u2013 Number of vendor and responsible purchasing organization or number and item of outline agreement.
3.Fixed source u2013 Within a validity period not more than one source should be flagged as fixed.
4.Procurement plant u2013 if the materials can be procured from a plant or another point within your firm, enter the plant number in PPl field and leave the field for the vendor number empty.
5.Blocked source u2013 To block a source. If you set Blocked indicator and enter only one validity period, the material is excluded from external procurement; that is, it cannot be ordered during this period.
6.Material requirements planning - You use MRP indicator to determine whether an automatic source determination process is carried out during the requirements planning run. The appropriate source is then automatically assigned to a purchase requisition, or scheduling agreement delivery schedule lines can be generated directly via planning run.
If an attempt is made to order a material subject to a source list requirement from a source that is not included in the source list, the standard system issues an error message with the text: Source not included in list despite source list requirement. You can change this to warning message.
If source list requirement defined for a plant, all materials in the plant level must be maintained with source list before procurement.
Analyze source list:
LOGISTICS u2013 MATERIAL MANAGEMNET u2013 PURCHASING u2013 MASTER DATA u2013 SOURCE LIST u2013 FOLLOW ON FUNCTIONS u2013 ANALYSE.
Define source list requirement at plant level:
SAP IMG u2013 MM u2013 PURCHSING u2013 SOURCE LIST u2013 DEFINE SOURCE LIST AT PLANT LEVEL.
Source lists can be created:
-Manually.
-Create from within an outline agreement u2013 on outline agreement overview screen, select an item for which you wish to enter source list record and choose ITEM u2013 MAINTAIN SOURCE LIST.
-Creation from with an info record u2013 you can enter vendor in the source list when creating or changing a purchasing info record. Choose EXTRAS u2013 SOURCE LIST. If the info record valid for entire purchase organization, you can create the source list for all plants of the organization in question. Choose the plant via GOTO u2013 PLANT.
-Automatic u2013 can generate by system automatically.
Create source list manually:
LOGISTICS u2013 MATERIAL MANAGEMENT u2013 PURCHASING u2013 MASTER DATA u2013 SOURCE LIST u2013 MAINTAIN/DISPLAY.
Generate source list automatically:
LOGISTICS u2013 MATERIAL MANAGEMENT u2013 PURCHASING u2013 MASTER DATA u2013 SOURCE LIST u2013 FOLOW ON FUNCTIONS u2013 GENERATE.
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Syed Hussain

How can i turn on source determination check box by default in p.req

heloo
how can i turn on source determination check box on in p.req mean whenever i use me51n in pop up sceen it should already be checked.
second how can i creat p.o form p.req automatilaly and then send it to edi.
what i do't wana use me59n iwant system once i create p.req and it has valid source just create p,o and send it to vendor.
thanks

Hi
You can switch the Source determination indicator on whenever you enter..
1) Go to Personal settings in ME51N Screen>select default Values tab>if you do not find Source determination field then click More fields move the field to line 1. Now you check this field and save it.
2) To create PO from PR make sure you have valid source of supply assigned to PR and Auto PO checked in VMR & MMR, Inforecord with Valid condition exist. Run the tcode ME59N and the system will convert the PO from PR.
3) To send the PO to Vendor via EDI you need to set up EDI with the help of Abaper by using message determination procedure and EDI/ALE setting.
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Karthik

Source determination via BAPI_PR_CHANGE

I am trying to use the BAPI BAPI_PR_CHANGE to perfrom an automatic source determiation, as the other BAPI availble () does not have this functinality.
source list and inforecord exists, and in ME22N this works.
However even if X cross the flag AUTO_SOURCE in PRHEADER and PRHEADERX, no source determination is performed on the purchase requisition.
does anybody know, how the input parameters need to be filled in order to perfrom this operation?

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Retail:doubt in supply source determination

Hi experts,
I know in supply source determination if supply source is vendor it will look for info record and if the supply source is supplying site then it will look for Site (DC).But my doubt is on which basis it will search for "vendor" and for "supplying site (DC) " in "supply source determination" topic.Where we actually do this.and find this topic.Hope it is clear and simple and expecting clear and simple answer for you.Thanks in advance.
Regards
Sandhya

Hi Sandhya,
The standard deifinition goes like this...
Supply source determination is part of purchase price determination and therefore
takes place at the beginning of the sales price calculation. It is used to determine the
vendors (sources of supply) for the selected articles and organizational levels. It uses
the system settings to do this. Both external and internal vendors (distribution centers)
can be sources of supply. If purchase price determination type A (standard) is used,
this price determination is performed by means of a purchase price calculation schema
in the case of an external vendor and by means of a pricing procedure in the case of
an internal vendor
NOTE :If multiple vendors are found for an artricle,system looks for the regular vendor flag,and then source list requirement,and then supplying region is checked for that particular article.
You can also refer to the following link for more information :
http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_04/helpdata/EN/4c/420d29470a11d1894a0000e8323352/frameset.htm
Hope it helps.
Best Regards,
Aram.

Source determination not happening during PR creation from Planned order

Hi Experts
We have set up source determination and we have created a sourcelist of material and a vendor is fixed, there is a inforecord alos maintined,
I am trying to convert a planned order from MD04 to a purchase requisition, the source is not being assigned for the PR, I am alos getting an information saying that 'the material is defined for inhouse production'
secondly if I click the 'Assign Source of Supply', then I am getting an error 'not possible to assign a source of supply'.
The material is a finished material 'FERT' with procurement key 'X' so in MRP an planned order gets generated for converting a PR or a production order.
Note - I was doing this effectively in a differnt client without any proble. I am unable to find what I am missing, please sugest.

Nagaraj Chaganti wrote:
Thank you everyone for the suggestions, The issue is resolved by testing with a new material with tproper master data. Basically the problem occured when some user created additional inforecord for the same P,Org hence there was no automatic source detemination happening.
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> Bye with regards.
a second info record may explain that AUTOMATIC source determination ddid not work but it does not explain the error messagees you described earlier.

URGENT PLEASE HELP - Source determination in Limits Carts not working

Dear all,
We have implemented SRM 4 on Server 5.0 and ECC 5 backend.
We have in our environment service masters that have been catalogued and linked to Contracts. When one raises a cart and selects one on these catalogue service items, a backend PO correctly creates and references the contract as specified in the catalog.
The problem we have discovered that if we raise a Limits order and specify the material group stipulated in the contract for a service, source determination fails to "pick up" this contract line. We are forced to enter a supplier all the time!
Also if we raise a text service line and select from "internal Goods/Services" a Service Master record and add it tothe cart, surce determination also does not pick up the R3 contract/line that matched this service. This means that when POs are created in the backend, they are not referencing any contract (no call-off)
Why is this happening? How come catalogue items linked to a service masters and contracts work and correctly and a Limits order do not?
Please help, we need to resolve this issue today.
Thanks,
Grace.

Hi Grace,
The contracts that are created in SRM can only be refered as Source of supplies while creating shopping carts if your are working in Extended Classic scenario.
In case you want to refer the back end contracts, Info. records for creating shopping carts you have to implement classic scenario.
The standard SRM does not provide the functionality you needed where as if you want to use back end contracts for a particular product category you can implement "Controlled Extended Classic Scenario BADI " which makes the classic scenario active for that product category, there by a back end contract can be referred for that product category when ever a shopping cart is made.
Hope this makes you clear. Clarifications are welcome.
Award points for suitable replies.
Rgds,
Teja

Source determination with referance to quota arrangement

Dear all
I had created quota for vendor A & Vendor B for a material M100, I had also defined quota arrangement usage in SPRO ( 3),
While creation of PR for this material M100, I had selected the tick for source determination, But still system is not determining the source.
Here one more observation is if I create the info record the source is determined from info record & the details are updated in quota.
Can some one help me which other things I need to check, so that the source is automatically determined by system from quota arrangement.
Thanks in advance
Regards
Pravin

HI,
If MIGO is done for the P.O all the datas are updated in the Purchase order history.
When you are doing MIRO , it will take what you have entered in the MIGO only.
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G.Ganesh Kumar

Need help in source determination.

Hi
There is a source list maintained for a material and plant comibination. This list contains the Agrements along with the vendors.
Now the quesion is how the system will use this for source determination?
IS there any T-Code to analyze the source list and find a appropriate vendor?
Any other records, documents which system will consider while source determination.
Your help will be highly appreciated.
Thanks in Advance
Nageswara.

Dear Nageswara,
First understand the importance of sorce list. it is used to restrict the number of suppliers. It means that if you don't maintain the supplier in the source list you can not procure the material form that supplier if you have activated the source list for that material .
your source of supplier can be anything i.e. it may be external vendor or another plant or outline aggrements.
while creating the PR or PO system will ask for source of supply. here you can choose any of the supplier which is maintained in the source list.
There is T-code as ME01 for maintaing the source list.
Thanks and Regards
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Automatic Source Determination

Hello,
I have implemented function module exit EXIT_SAPLMEREQ_005 of enhancement MEREQ001 to control user input, one of which is the desired vendor field. Under standard system conditions, if the user enters a desired vendor then automatic source determination is ignored. The exit implemented clears this entry. I'm successfull with this strategy so far.
Now that I have the field cleared, I was hoping that automatic source determination would take over. Unfortunately, it seems this is executed (or would have been) before my exit. I want to execute the procedure again after clearing the desired vendor. Do you know the function module, or something, that will do this for me?
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C

Thank you for your reply! Your suggestion led me to ME_SEARCH_SOURCE_OF_SUPPLY. A break-point in this function module proved to me that this is the one being executed. This function requires VALUE(COMIN) LIKE BQPIM STRUCTURE BQPIM.
The function module exit I am implementing, EXIT_SAPLMEREQ_005 of enhancement MEREQ001, only includes data from MEREQ_ITEM, which is only line item data. Not all of the information required to build a structure like BQPIM is available, such as header data like document type and document category.
Where can I get all of the data I need to make the call to ME_SEARCH_SOURCE_OF_SUPPLY? Any suggestions is greatly appreciated.
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Source determination in Purchase Requisition

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Iam using the BAPI BAPI_PR_CREATE to create a purchase requisition. I have passed 'X' to auto source of prheader parameter of the BAPI but once the PR is created then if I check the source determination check box it is not selected.
Thanks in advance.

Hey Harini,
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