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the supply organization is not the same accross all GBU's. Sometimes, the factory have to create the purchase order and send it to the vendor, sometimes, the user needs to create At any case |
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The role of the factory employees is:
For raw materials, define which quantities needs to be ordered to insure the production, create the purchase orders and send it to the vendors.
However, this is procurement team who negotiate with the vendors and create the contracts. |
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For packaging materials, the factory employees create purchase requisitions that are converted to purchase orders under the responsibility of the Lisbon procurement team.
This training material describe how to use the MRP run to define the dates and quantities needed to insure the production planned. As soon as the stocks are always correct in SAP and the production scheduling well done using MF50, the materials replenishment activities are almost automatics. |
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Provisioning best practices : This tutorial describe how to manage the raw and pack materials replenishment in an easy way. As soon as the material master data fields are well updated in MM02 transaction, the calculation of the deliveries needed to insure production is very simple. This training does not contain how to update master data. This is included in the production scheduling master data here for PF1 and here for WP1. The meaning of the fields are the same for both production scheduling and material replenishement
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Materials master data fields for raw material stored in a tank. For a good result of the MRP run, it is important to fill the material master date fields in a logical way: you cannot have conflicts between the fields. example : a maximum lot size lower than the minimum lot size. This small video describe how to manage those fields for a storage in a tank.
FOB delivery with long lead time. This scenario represent a raw material Germany has to receive from Japan. The product is owned by Solvay as soon as the product arrives at the port at Japan.
There are several master data to update to facilitate the supply of raw and pack materials. Most of them are under the responsibility of Procurement but not always well managed. Here under, som trickx and tips to understand the impacts of those master data fields. |
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Settings that impact the material replenishment activities : Contract - info record - source list - quota arrangment