Material can withdraw from internal plant or buy from external vendor

[Former Member]

Hello all,

I have a situation below and am wondering how to handle such kind of process in SAP.

We are a manufacturing-based company and we have two plants in Korea (both are under one company code) and we have a group of material which have the following kind of purchasing scenarios:

1. This material can be obtained (i.e. procured from) from another plant of the same company code. This setup is possible via standard SAP intra-company STO with setup of special procurement type that point to the supplying plant. Neither PIR nor source list are require to create.
   
2. In the meantime, this group of material can also be procured from external third party vendor. This setup is also possible via PIR setup and source list.

Problem:
When MRP run, how is it know which source to pick-up (internal plant or external vendor) given that the material master special procurement type is link to the plant key, and the PIR and source list is tied to third party vendor?

Is there a way that during MRP run, the PR output allow the business to decide whether to withdraw from internal plant or procure from external third party vendor, how to setup this?

Regards,
Daniel

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Regrading your second question, it can be achieved by maintaining quota arrangement for material in that you can mention how you would like the procurement quantity to get divided between internal source (plant) and external vendors.

Regards,