Vendor Managed Inventory

                                                              Vendor Managed Inventory

In VMI, the supplier will take care of filling the stocks in our inventory. Here we are going to give access to i-supplier portal responsibility to the authorized supplier by creating a login id. When the supplier connects to the i-supplier portal, He will be able to view all the agreements, invoices, payments etc. When the supplier wants to fill the stock, they can view the stock level in i-supplier portal & if they observe that the stock levels are going to fall below minimum quantity they can create the releases online & deliver the goods to Inventory (This is a part of ASCP)

Start with defining an item in Item Master. Give details as shown below

Define ASL for this Item. Navigate to Purchasing Responsibility > Supply Base > Approved Supplier List

Generally, for VMI, we keep value of Global as No because we do not want our supplier to have access across OUs. It can be changed to Yes as per the Business Requirements.

Next is to create a Blanket Purchase Agreement. Give details as shown below

Assign Blanket Purchase Agreement details to ASL Attributes

Next is to create users for Suppliers in i-suppliers. Navigate to Supply Base > Supplier User Management > Supplier User Creation > Register Supplier User & give details as shown below

Assign all responsibilities to this supplier

For the VMI purpose we just need ‘Plan, Source, Pay Supplier View’ Responsibility

Go to Sys admin responsibility & set the password for this supplier

Now add ‘Advanced Planning Administrator’ responsibility to our login & go to this responsibility & navigate to Admin > Instances

Instance Code is based on the details we give during installing Oracle Applications. Add Currency & Assignment Set

Here Assignment Set is ‘TST:Supplier Scheduling’

Click on Organizations Tab & add your Organization details as shown below

As there is an inbuilt Bug in the Apps so we can not complete the process. But if we go as per the process then we have to perform following steps

Navigate to  Advanced Planning Administrator responsibility > Collections > Oracle Systems > Standard Collection. It will submit a request set. Give parameters as shown below

Here we have changed the User Company Association field to ‘Enable User Company Association’

Keep Parameters for other concurrent program as defaulted by the system & submit the request set. This request set will trigger around 50 other requests but as one of the request will go into error, the parent request will also end up in error.

But once this program completes successfully then the suppliers can login to the application & go to Plan, Source, Pay Supplier View Responsibility > VMI à Search for Item VMI Status

The status will be populated by running the concurrent program ‘VMI Replenishment Engine’