Stock overview based on material and vendor combination

Question

Hi Gurus,
I have a scenario, for three materials A , B, C was bought out from 5 vendor,  how to display the stock with material and vendor combination. In client place, the three material (A , B,C) which were bought from same vendor are issued to cost center. Client wants to know the stock based on vendor.
Thanks in Advance.

Answer 1

Hi,
In my opinion you have the following options - basically:
1) Use different material numbers for the physically same material you procure from different vendors (this is the dummiest solution, not recommended)
2) MPN (manufacturing part number) - you use different material numbers corresponding to each vendor . But these materials will be lnked:
http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_04/helpdata/EN/75/ee15c655c811d189900000e8322d00/frameset.htm
3) Batch management
option1 - You apply a certain logic to batch numbers and based on batch number you can distinguish from which vendor the stock was procured.
option2 - You can also use "not speaking" batch number, but here it's more sophisticated to find out from which vendor it was procured
option3 - You can classify the batch and in one of the characteristics you can store the vendor's number
option4 - In the batch master (table MCHA) you can find a "vendor" field (MCHA-LIFNR) - using development you can populate this field at the time of GR
4) Split valuation - you can maintain separate valuation type for each vendor. I think it is recommended only if you want to manage the moving avarage price separately
http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_04/helpdata/EN/75/ee0d4d55c811d189900000e8322d00/frameset.htm
Regards,
Csaba