Symptom
You have created a contract with a supplier for third party order processing however when you create a sales order, the required Contract is missing from available sources of supply list.
Environment
SAP Business ByDesign
Reproducing the Issue
- Go to Sales Orders workcenter.
- Go to Common Tasks View and choose New Sales Order subview.
- Enter all required details and go to items tab.
- Choose Add Row and enter Product ID.
- Under the Details section, go to sub-section Ship-from and select Fulfilment Type as External.
- Now select Line item and choose Assign Source of Supply.
- Here you find that the required Sourcing Contract for the Supplier is missing.
Cause
Item of the contract is of type Product Category without any Product ID therefore the system doesn't display contract.
In auto source determine, the system looks for contract for the contract with particular product and not based on the product category. Hence, not just in the TPOP scenario, even when you create a purchase order directly, the system does not auto-propose the contract based on the product category.
Resolution
- Go to Sales Orders workcenter.
- Go to Common Tasks View and choose New Sales Order subview.
- Enter all required details and go to the items tab.
- Choose Add Row and enter a Product ID.
- Under the Details section, go to field Ship-from and select Fulfilment Type as External.
- Here enter required Supplier manually from value selection and check availability.
- You get a warning message: The source of supply cannot be determined; Check the sourcing-relevant master data.
- In this case, remove the Complete Indicator checkbox under the General tab.
- Now ATP turns Green and performs save.
Note:- Users can choose such applicable contracts (based on product category) manually in the document.
Keywords
Product category, Contract, Assign Source of Supply, Third party order processing, Fulfilment type, External, The source of supply cannot be determined; Check the sourcing-relevant master data , KBA , product category , contract , source of supply , fulfilment type , external , third party order processing , AP-SOU-SCL , Sourcing List , Problem