Modeling Suppliers As Orgs

Question

Our company is implementing ASCP and we're debating whether to model our contract manufacturers as supplier orgs. We have a requirement to manage the collaborations of critical components, and the standard way to do that is via supplier orgs (multi-tier planning). Our fear is that collecting all the necessary data into a supplier org will be nearly impossible. Have others had success doing this? Would you do it again? Any lessons learned?
I'm guessing we'd use legacy intergration, and only load the data to the planning server since we don't need to track the financials. We'd start with maybe one or two CM sites.
Thanks!

Answer 1

Hello Patrick,
Are you interested in planning of critical components(simply the lead time and production process) manufactured by Supplier
if you say yes, you may need to think about the following
1.Is your supplier is in house supplier or remote part.
2.How frequently the supplier production progress information can be collected from your supplier?
3.progress entries in system
In all case if you are planning to define supplier org, the following are the key points need to be addressed.
1.Costing of procured item from the supplier.
2.How the Purchasing and payment to the supplier will happen in your system( since the item is virtually processed in your system).
3.How flexible is your client is in going with double entries like IR & ISO Cycle for planning and Actual purchasing process?
Warm Regards
Sivaraman.G