Same Material For Third Party and Regular Business

Business Case: When the material is available in company they can fulfill the customers order else the order will be routed to the vendor.For the same material , same customer and same order type the material should behave in both third party and normal sales process.

Config and Master Data Change

To address this business case please do the below settings

1. Make Item Cat Group in MMR as NORM.

2. Procurement in MRP2 in MMR as X-External and Internal.

3. Assign the NORM to TAN as default Item Category and TAS as Manual Item Category in Item category assignment VOV4.

Process Flow:

Create a sales order (order type OR) for the material , the item category will determine as TAN due to default item category. Which will determine the Schedule Line category for regular materials.

Change the item category as TAS which will allow you to change it manually as we have made the configuration changes , once the item category is changed system will determine the 3rd party schedule line category which will create a PR.