This activity is used to establish a cross-reference for a supplier and a purchase part. When you have entered your purchase part, you need to connect the purchase part to one or more suppliers before using it. For example, you do this to place a purchase order or to enter a schedule agreement part.
With regard to the supplier scheduling function, it is required to establish such a relationship. This is also valid for purchase order entries, but the relationship might be established during the purchase order entry. At least one supplier should exist for each purchase part. This function gives you the opportunity to record multiple sources of supply for a purchase part.
You can decide whether you allow the parts to be purchased or rented-in from specific suppliers by setting the Acquisition Type appropriately. However in order to use a specific acquisition type in the supplier for purchase part level, it has to have been enabled in the purchase part level.
The Use Price Incl Tax option is used to define the basis of tax calculation. You can define the tax calculation basis for the purchase parts supplied by different suppliers, so that the price or the price including tax can be defined based on the tax calculation basis. The default value is fetched from the site that is connected to the part, however, it is possible to change the value of this option if necessary.
If the Use Price Incl Tax option is enabled, then only the Price Incl Tax/Curr and the Additional Cost Gross/Curr fields are editable and the Price/Curr and the Additional Cost Net/Curr fields are not editable. The price and additional cost net/curr is calculated based on the value entered for the price including tax, the additional cost gross/curr and the tax code.
The Send Order Price option should be enabled if you want to include the price from the purchase order in the EDI/MHS message to the supplier (which, in a multi site environment, will also update the price on the supplying customer order).
The Transfer Configuration Characteristics option is a really important option if you are handling configured parts (CTO). You have to enable this option to include the configurations in the message from the receiving to the supplying site.
The Min Order Qty field is used to define a minimum quantity that can be ordered from the supplier. A warning message appears at the registration of the purchase order line or a purchase requisition line if the order line quantity is less than this. The default value is zero.
The delivery pattern and the standard pack size are particularly used in supplier scheduling. The delivery pattern nominates precise delivery days and times during a week for the combination of a supplier and a purchase part. The standard pack size ensures that the ordered quantities on the schedule are in multiples of this, despite any delivery pattern distribution.
To enter prices for external services, you must enable the External Services Allowed option.
The Multi-Site Planning Part option is used by the multi-site planning systems: Material Requirements Planning, Master Scheduling, Capability Check, Reorder Point Calculations, and Next Level Demand Calculations. The demand site must be an internal customer, the supplier for the purchased inventory part must be an internal supplier, and the same inventory part must have been defined on the supplying site before this option can be selected. When this option is enabled, the multi-site planning systems will generate distribution orders instead of purchase requisitions for the suppliers.