PO acknowledgement for SUS vendor in MM-SUS scenario?

Question

Dear Experts,
We have SRM 7.01 system with ECC 6.0 enhpk 5 in our client landscape. We have configured classic scenario  with MM-SUS in our landscape. Our client wants to have the PO acknowledgement functionality for all SUS vendors.
I have checked and found that SUS portal have standard functionality to confirm the Purchase Orders from MM system. However, we need to configure the few things from MM side to enable the PO acknowledgement by default.
1. Create a confirmation key for PO acknowledgement in MM spro settings.
2. Assign the confirmation key to the SUS vendors in MM side .
Now, there are two questions in the MM side?
1. How can the client easily identify the SUS vendor from MM side (say XK02 or MK02) to maintain the required confirmation control key in the master data?
2. Along with the confirmation control key, the purchase order item for such vendors should also have default checking of the checkbox 'Acknowledgement Required'  to enable the SUS vendor to confirm such PO item. How can we default the checkbox in PO item for SUS vendors?
Thanska nd regards,
Ranjan
Ranjan Sutradhar

Answer 1

Hi Nikhil/Soumya,
How to proceed with vendor classification to enable the client to easily identify which ECC vendors are SUS vendors to maintain the additional master data settings?
With use of classification, the system will automatically populate the vendor master data with a class say Z_SUS?
Could you please help me how to proceed with the same? is it similar to proceed with material classification?
Actually, the client has over 10,000 suppliers and the client is bringing only 1200 suppliers initially to SUS. I am looking for easier way for the client to identify the SUS vendors from ECC side.
Thanks and regards,
Ranjan
Ranjan Sutradhar