SAP Automatic source determination

Dear Gurus
I have a source list with one vendor (with fixed indicator and "1" relevant for MRP).
Further, I have a info record for the same material vendor combination.
Validity period is until 31.12.9999.
But system is not picking up the vendor for purchase requisition, after MRP run.
Is there any specific reason for that?
Thanks & Best Regards
Rupesh

Hi,
Go to OMFI - Here create a key or use 01 by making necessary changes as following;
Under Source Determination Tab Page, activate "Create Requisition" and Save.
Then go to the User Master (SU01) of the MRP Person and under "Parameters" Tab Page, maintain this key "01" against Parameter ID "EVO" and try MRP Run again and check.

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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?
Thanks
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.
Thanks,
C

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

Automatic source determination on PR created from PM-order

Hey,
I got stuck here....
I have a PM-order, with a component, creating a PurReq automatically when saving PM-order.
I have a source list with reference to a contract and fix-indicator.
If I enter the PurReq and press source of supply, the source and contract will be determined.
If I use ME57, the source will be determined.
If I use ME51N, and flag automatic source in the top, it is also working.
BUT what I want is not working!!
I want the source to be determined automatically on creation, that is when I save my PM-order, I want SAP to create my PurReq with the source assigned automatically - upon creation!
How is that possible??
/ peter

Hi Peter,
In standard SAP functionality vendor will not be fetched from source list, if the PR is created from Maintenance Order.
However, you can use user exit - COZF0002: Maintenance order: Change purchase requisition for external component Area.
With this customer enhancement you can change the purchase requisition created from PM order.
We have not implemented the said user exit, so please check the documentation & test the same.
Hope this helps.
Thanks & Regards,
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Automatic source determination in PR

Hi
I have a source list with correct validity.
Here i have maintained a contract and flagged the "fix" indicator. The contract has the correct vaidity.
This is the only entry in the source list.
However, when iam creating a PR manually using Me51N, then teh system is not populating the contract as the source.
please advise
regards
Syed.

Hello,
I think that in addition to a source list we have to maintain the quota arrangement
If you have a single supplier, so quota arrangement will be 100% , transaction "MEQ1"
Please correct me if I am wrong
Best Regards

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.
Regards,
Syed Hussain

Automatic Source determiantion

Dear Guru,
During Automatic source determination, the logic to find the source of supply sequence is
Quota arrangement
Source list
Outline agreement and info record
Source Determination - Purchasing (MM-PUR) - SAP Library
My doubt is whether the above sequence is hard-coded in SAP or is there any configuration.
Regards
GP

Hi Praveen
A.The Source determination hierachy is:
1. Quota arrangement
2. Source List
3. Outline Agreement
4. Info record.
Once a valid Source of Supply is found the system will stop searching.
This can be seen Function ME_SEARCH_SOURCE_OF_SUPPLY
FORM BEZUGSQUELLE_SUCHEN. (Source of Supply Search)
This is all hardcoded in the system.
You could us customer exit which is available in source determination EXIT_SAPLMEQR_001. This would allow you to change the results which apper ain the LORD table which are the entries in the popup list.
I hope this information is of help.
Kind regards,
Lorraine

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.

Source determination

Can anyone would be able to help me on the following question.
Your system is configured to support your buying department in automatic source determination. Which of the following statements are true?
(a)     A material master record must exist for a source to be determined.
(b)     A vendor cannot be used if it is blocked in the source list.
(c)     A quota arrangement, source list or outline agreement must exist.
(d)     If the regular vendor is set in customising, this vendor can only be used.
(e)     None of the above.
Thanks in advance

a, b, c and d is right

Automatic batch determination at repetitive backflushing

Hi, there,
Is it possible to trigger automatic batch determination for components at repetitive backflushing? Since we have background job to process the shop floow data from SFCS, we need to have SAP automatic batch determination for batch-held components. However, it seems that auto batch deter. isn't supported for repetitive backflushing. Does anyone have the experience at this area?
Thanks in advance.
B. Regards,
Nancy

Dear nancy,
1. ign batch search procedure for ur REM profile in OSPT, if u r are using std. profile dont need it already got assigned with ME001.
2. Create sort rule for the material in SU70
3. in MBC1 assign select statergy ME01 and select materials/order type/plant combination. give Mov type 261 and assign materials,selection critieria ans sort rule. then it will work
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Helo all,
We have a few issues with Sourcing Determination.
SRM 4.0/EBP 5.0 SP 08
We set the sourcing for all
Product categories - Automatic Bid invitaion for items without source of supply in the Table BBPV_SRC_DETERMINE
It was working fine but all of a sudden it moves all the requirements into the Sourcing cockpit instead of creating a Bid inviation.
Things done after this set up..
Product Categories were replicated again into the SRM system.
All settings for product categories were deleted and entered again. (Ex PPOMA_BBP, Define Bckend sys for prd cat) etc.
Has anyone run into issues like this before.

Hi Claudia,
I have created the contact person for bidder through the web only. There shouldnt be any problem in creating BP or contact person as the bid invitation was sent to bidder sucessfully, even i could create contract in backend after the bids receieved from the same bidder.only some times this error is flashed. ( all atributes, master data used is one and the same).
Now could u please tell me how exactly the bid invitaion is sent to bidder. any FM, prog??? which i should check out??
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Automatic Vendor determination

Hi,
I have maintained source list for the combination for Vendor and Material and also maintained source list with MRP indicator 1 and Fixed vendor indicator. When i create the Purchase requisition from MRP it is picking up the vendor from source list, but when i create the purchase requisition from Sales order automatically (Third party Processing), it is not picking up the vendor automatically from source list.
Is that standard SAP issue?

this is a statement from OSS Note 601983 - Source determination for 3rd party/individual purchase order:
When you create a sales order with an individual purchase order or third-party items, the system determines a source of supply automatically when generating the purchase requisition if the source of supply is unique.
The MRP indicator is not taken into account in this case.

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?

Waiting for the next SAP release in order to have the correct BAPI

LMEQR001- Source Determination Exit, Sample Code

Dear Experts,
We have a situation where the source determination should be assigned automatically in the Requisition. Currently SAP Standard functionality works only if user enters all the information correctly. If user changes the material number( A to B), it does not determine the source of supply automatically.
I believe, exit LMEQR001 can be used to fulfill the above requirements. Appreciate, if any one can provide the sample code to achieve the same.
Points will be rewarded
Looking forward to hear positive response from your end.
Regards
Karun

Hmmmm.... weeelll, Ah'd say you got yerself some code there. Struse bob, a genuyne bit o' code! Yep...
Okaaay.... naw, you got some o' dose, what'ya callems? Uhh... class! Yeh, you got a class, dere... 'mazin!
And... if I really luke hard at it... ummm... nah.
Hold it! Ah wuz raht! You got some of 'em method diddly things! Struse goodness! how about that!
Well, congraaaadulations, pal! You sure got a good start, there!
Keep it up, pardner!

Automatic batch determination during goods issue

Hi,
We want automatic batch determination during issuance of components to a process order with out clicking on batch determination tab in COIK as well as I don't want to give '' in MB 1A transaction. Without clicking anything batch is determining is process order for components. But it is not happening during goods issue either in transaction COIK or in MB1A. If I use COIK again i have to click on batch determination tab and putting '' in MB1A. Then only batch determining. How to avoid this. Batch should determine automatically in inventory posting also like COIK, MB1A etc.
Thanks & Regards,
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Dear Laxman,
Check these links,
https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/ERPLO/Batch+Determination
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