Sourcing using quota arrangement

Hi,
How to carry out sourcing using quota arrangement?
We want to use quota arrangement to carryout sourcing?
Pl guide.
Thx

Vaibhav
Your question is too general. You have to be little more specific about your reqirement.
Iam going to assume you are talking about sourcing to a single destination branch from multiple vendors using quotas. It is simple you have to create inbound quotas to branch from the vendors using tcode /n/sapapo/scc_tq1. Make sure the quotas are active and valid as of the current date. Then run heuristics and you will see the quotas taking effect .
thanks
aparna
Edited by: Aparna.Ranganathan on Feb 3, 2011 6:43 PM

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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

How to know if a MRP run element is using Quota Arrangement and lot size?

Hi all,
Two questions:
A) How to determine if a source is actually pulled from Quota Arrangement?
I am wondering if there is anyway from ABAP table or from Transaction (i.e. Purchasing Order) in which the source is pulled from a Quota Arrangement?
We use scheduling agreement, PIR and source list, and as well as Quota Arrangement for our purchasing.
I just want to know how, from system (table and transaction), to find out the source is from quota, not from PIR or others.
B) Quota Arrangement still can work properly if lot-size procedure's splitting quota indicator not Checked?
If my the lot-size procedure which I am using for a material does not activate the splitting quota indicator, it means split quota will not work during MRP run.
But does this also mean that quota arrangement will not be working for this particular material even if I have create a a quota arrangement object (via MEQ1) for this material?
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Daniel

Tomek,
If I want to use the split quota, it seems there is some pre-requisite.
If you go to MEQ1 and press F1's on the "Minimum qty split" column, and you will notice the following message.
Allocation by quota using splitting quotas is only carried out via a requirement planning run, subject to the following preconditions:
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The indicator for the splitting quota must be set for the the lot-sizing procedure used for materials planning purposes in Customizing.
Hence, the quota arrangmeent still workable even if the lot-size does not have the spliting quota box checked?
Indicator: Splitting quota in short-term horizon
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Use
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Source list & quota arrangement

At which level the source list is maintained:
Client Level
Plant Level
Purchasing Org. level
When source determination takes place, does the quota arrangement takes precedence over a fixed vendor?

Hi Vishal,
At which level the source list is maintained?
Plant level.
When source determination takes place, does the quota arrangement takes precedence over a fixed vendor?
Yes, it does.
The system determines the source of supply of a requested material on the basis of the following factors (in the order shown):
1. Quota arrangement
The system first determines whether a quota arrangement within whose validity period the delivery date in the requisition falls exists for the material.
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If no source can be determined this way, the system checks the source list.
2. Source list
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If several outline agreements and perhaps info records exist, all possible sources are offered for selection in a box.
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The system checks whether a regular vendor has been specified for the material (that is, a vendor valid for the entire corporate group, or client). If this is the case, and it has been specified in Customizing that the regular vendor takes precedence, the info record for this vendor will be preferred as the source.
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source will be determine based on the following points:
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For more information, <a href="http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/75/ee11b255c811d189900000e8322d00/content.htm">Click here</a>
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KANBAN with Quota arrangement

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Ist possible to use Quota arrangement in KANBAN external Procurement (Scheduling Agreement)?
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As per my knowledge Quota Arrangement is not possible to use in KANBAN with Schedulling Agreement.
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1.     External procurement from Vendor to Main Stores:
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u2022     Backflush is not required and Material is issued against a Pick List for Production Order.
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2.     If required, extend the material to main storage location. TC: MMSC
3.     Make the necessary changes in the material master as explained above.
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5.     Create Kanban control cycle. TC:PKMC
6.     Print the barcode. TC:PK17
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8.     View the demand source view. TC: PK13n
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5.     Create Kanban control cycle. TC:PKMC
6.     Print the barcode. TC:PK17
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8.     View the demand source view. TC: PK13n
9.     When the material is received at Gate, perform goods receipt into blocked stock (movement type 103). TC: MIGO
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Regards,
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Quota Arrangement in MRP Planning

Dear All,
I am facing problem in foll Scenario:
I am trying to use Quota arrangement in MRP Planning.
I have maintained foll values:
Quota Usage in Material Master.
Quota for the material against 3 vendors in Percentages.
I have not maintained any Lot size procedures cause we are not using any batch management or Lot sizing in our company.
MRP Type is reorder type planning.
PIR is maintained for all the 3 vendors against the material being used.
No source List is maintained.
But during MRP Run only 1 PR is getting generated against a single Vendor - which is appearing 1st in the Quota arrangement.
Kindly please suggest me why is this happening... and whether there is some note of configuration missing.
Regards,
Jyotsna Loomba

Hi,
It is easier to use an example.
Lets say we have two vendors that we want equally used and they have been set up in a quota arrangement for a long time. The quota base qty will show how many have been ordered from each. So lets say that at the moment we have the two vendors both set up with a quota of 1 (to keep them equal) and the quota base qty is the same for each (lets say 10,000).
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By manually entering 10,000 to the quota base qty of the new vendor we are tricking the system into thinking that the new vendor has had the same number of orders as the existing vendors and so from now onwards they WILL all get an equal share.
I hope this helps with the clarification of the use of quota base qty?
As for the data you have just provided, the system would give the next few orders to Vendor V2.
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Hello....
Note 206684 has the following information:
o When you use quota arrangement, the special procurement key of
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Also maintained source list , quota arrangement.
Where ever more than one vendor , system generating PR but for those quota arrangement maintained 100% for single vendor , there system not generating PR.
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Hi,
Yes I have maintained below in MEQ1 just for testing but I cannot get the desired result:
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Vendor A:   100                                 500                           1
Vendor B:    100                                 700                          2
Vendor C:                                           500                          3
Set-up Weekly lotsize with splitting quota and quota usage 4.
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our requirement is first to consider Vendor A then Vendor B then Vendor C according to maximum lot size and priority.
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Quota arrangement divides the total requirements generated over a period of time among the sources of supplied by assigning a quota.
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In SAP SRM 210 training material, page 334 (under main topic Unit 8: Sourcing), it is clearly stated that every requirement fitting a quota arrangement is sourced automatically by the system. But that did not happen in our system implementation (assuming standard SAP is used and no configuration needed). The picture captured in the training material SRM210, page 334 showed that, in Process Quota Arrangement, at Quota Arrangement item level, there are 3 columns in which values are updated. The value will be updated in the 3 columns after Purchase Order created with refer to quota based vendor selection. The 3 columns are Release Quantity, Current Percentage and Target Percentage. After PO created, system gives current release quantity and current percentage in the quota arrangement. However, in the real implementation, I did not see the column available for automatically update except the target percentage column. We want to see if the Quota Arrangement updates the column Release Quantity and Current Percentage but both columns are not updated. We use standard SAP-SRM7.0, but the result is not as the same in the SAP SRM210 training material, provided by SAP.
Anyone know the solution?

In SAP SRM 210 training material, page 334 (under main topic Unit 8: Sourcing), it is clearly stated that every requirement fitting a quota arrangement is sourced automatically by the system. But that did not happen in our system implementation (assuming standard SAP is used and no configuration needed). The picture captured in the training material SRM210, page 334 showed that, in Process Quota Arrangement, at Quota Arrangement item level, there are 3 columns in which values are updated. The value will be updated in the 3 columns after Purchase Order created with refer to quota based vendor selection. The 3 columns are Release Quantity, Current Percentage and Target Percentage. After PO created, system gives current release quantity and current percentage in the quota arrangement. However, in the real implementation, I did not see the column available for automatically update except the target percentage column. We want to see if the Quota Arrangement updates the column Release Quantity and Current Percentage but both columns are not updated. We use standard SAP-SRM7.0, but the result is not as the same in the SAP SRM210 training material, provided by SAP.
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