Approved Supplier List
Before Creating ASL, we’ll create items in item master.
Navigate to Inventory Responsibility > Items > Master Items
Note: In order to reduce efforts copy items from finished
goods template & give additional details as shown below
Now we’ll create PO for the
above mentioned items with some suppliers not in our ASL
Navigate to PO Responsibility > Purchase Orders >
Purchase Orders & give details as shown below
Try to approve this PO .
You’ll get following error
Navigate to Supply Base > Approved Supplier List &
give details as shown below
Initially the status will be new. Change that status to
Approved. Go to Record Details Tab & change the Global field as Yes. With
this the supplier will be marked as approved supplier for all Operating Units
Save the record.
Now again try to approve the same PO .
This time you will be able to do that
Define Supplier
Statuses: we can define custom supplier statuses. Navigate to Supplier Base
> Supplier Statuses
Now whenever we open the ASL form to add new values we can
see the custom status at line levels
ASL at Commodity
level: Commodity is nothing but item categories. If we set ASL at commodity
level then all items within that commodity will be covered. We can see the
commodity value in Item Master > Tools > Categories
Give details as shown below
From the above form we can conclude that both the items we
created will be covered in above mentioned commodity. In order to check this,
create a new PO with same supplier
But when we try to approve it, we get following error
The reason why we are getting this error is because for this
item we have already assigned another supplier. So we can conclude that the ASL given at item level will override the
ASL given at commodity level.
In order to approve above mentioned PO
(3006) we have to add Supplier 2 (with Pune Site) to the ASL of the item
mentioned in line level.
Navigate to Supply Base > Approved Supplier List &
add other supplier also to this list
Now create another PO with
this new supplier & site details as shown below
This PO will be
approved
Now navigate to ASL form & change the status of 1
supplier to debarred whereas at item level keep the status as approved
Now create a PO with this
supplier details
When we try to approve this PO
we get following error
Similarly if we reverse the arrangement, that is debar
supplier at item level & approve at commodity level then also we’ll get
same error so we can conclude that if an supplier is debarred at any level, we
won’t be able to approve PO for that supplier.
The Details of ASL is stored in PO_APPROVED_SUPPLIER_LIST, PO_ASL_STATUSES
& PO_ASL_ATTRIBUTES
