| Active Supply Sources Overview (cprpd7150m000) |  |
| Use this session to view and maintain the active sources of external supply. Note You can use this session only for supply strategies for which the Supply Type field is set to Purchase and the Allocation Rule is set to Historic Percentage. To start this session To start this session, execute the following steps: Start the Supply Strategy (cprpd7120m000) session. Select a suitable supply strategy. On the Specific menu, click Active Supply Sources Overview. To generate the overview Before you this session for the first time, generate the overview by using the Generate Active Supplying Source Overview (cprpd7250m000) session. You must generate an updated overview from time to time, for example, once a month. Grouping by effectivity period This session groups the suppliers by effectivity period. All suppliers with identical effective dates and expiry dates belong to a single group. The priorities and percentages apply always to the suppliers within the same group. Related topics To select external suppliers
Fields | Description
Plan Item | An item with the order system Planned. The production, distribution, or purchase of these items is planned in Enterprise Planning based on the forecast or the actual demand. You can plan these items by means of the following: Master-based planning, which is similar to master production scheduling techniques. Order-based planning, which is similar to material-requirements planning techniques. A combination of master-based planning and order-based planning. Plan items can be one of the following: An actual manufactured or purchased item. A product family. A basic model, that is, a defined product variant of a generic item. A group of similar plan items or families is called a product family. The items are aggregated to give a more general plan than the one devised for individual items. A code displayed by the item code's cluster segment shows that the plan item is a clustered item that is used for distribution planning.
Effective Date | The first day on which a record or a setting is valid. The effective date often includes the effective time. The suppliers with equal effective dates and expiry dates are grouped in this session.
Expiry Date | The last date on which a record or a setting is valid. The expiry date often includes the expiry time. The suppliers with equal effective dates and expiry dates are grouped in this session.
Buy-from Business Partner | The business partner from whom you order goods or services; this usually represents a supplier's sales department. The definition includes the default price and discount agreements, purchase-order defaults, terms of delivery, and the related ship-from and invoice-from business partner.
Ship-from Business Partner | The business partner that ships the ordered goods to your organization. This usually represents a supplier's distribution center or warehouse. The definition includes the default warehouse at which you want to receive the goods and if you want to inspect the goods, the carrier that takes care of the transport, and the related buy-from business partner.
Supplying Site | The site from which a plan item is delivered through the multisite distribution structure.
Supplying Item | The item code of the plan item at the supplying site.
Supplying Warehouse | The warehouse from which the item is supplied.
First Order | The sequence number that specifies the high-level ordering of all available suppliers. The first-order sequence number depends on the supplier's priority or minimum transportation time. For more information, refer to the Help of the Priority Rule field in the Supply Strategy (cprpd7120m000) session.
Second Order | The number that expresses the sequence of suppliers to supply a demand. A set of suppliers of which the First Order field have equal values, the Second Order field determines the ordering. ERP LN calculates the second-order number based on the quantitites and percentages that were already supplied in the past by the supplier.
Priority | An option that enables you to add a certain rating for suppliers. If the priority is defined, the item/supplier combinations are sorted according to descending priority.
Minimum Transportation Time (hrs) | The minimum transportation time that this supplier needs to transport an item from the supplier to the receiving site.
Percentage | The specified percentage for this supplier. The value of this field is based upon the supplier percentage you defined in the Items - Purchase Business Partner (tdipu0110m000) session. However, this number is normalized, which means that the percentages of the suppliers with the same effective dates and expiry dates must add up to 100%. ERP LN determines the setting of the Second Order field by comparing the Percentage field to the Period Actual Percentage field.
Period Quantity | The quantity this supplier delivered in one period. ERP LN calculates this quantity each time you run the Generate Active Supplying Source Overview (cprpd7250m000) session. If you modify this field, you must recalculate the overview. (On the Specific menu, click Recalculate.
Period Actual Percentage | The actual percentage that is supplied by the supplier. This percentage is based on the value of the Period Quantity field. The supplier for which the percentage in this field deviates most from the value in the Percentage field is the first candidate to supply a demand.
Last Update Date | The date on which the Generate Active Supplying Source Overview (cprpd7250m000) session was run for the last time.
Commands | Description
Print Active Supplying Source Overview | Starts the Print Active Supplying Source Overview (cprpd7450m000) session.
Generate Active Supplying Source Overview... | Starts the Generate Active Supplying Source Overview (cprpd7250m000) session.
Recalculate | Recalculates the values of the Period Actual Percentage field and the Second Order field.