SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

3361964 - Quota Arrangement is Not Working in Material Resource Planning

Symptom

Quota arrangement is done for the product to distribute the quantity in different suppliers.

User expects when the supply planning is done for this product it should create different purchase documents as per the arrangement however it is not behaving as expected.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

1. Go to Sourcing and Contracting Work center
2. Go to Quota Arrangements View
3. Choose "New"
4. Select the product you want to create quota arrangement
5. Assign supplier and fill the quota 
6. Choose save and Activate it.

Next

1. Go to Supply Planning work center
2. Go to Products view
3. Choose "All Products by Selection"
4. Search for relevant Product which you created quota arrangement
5. Choose open
6. Create a "new planning proposal"
7. Enter a required quantity
8. Choose save
9. It created one purchase proposal
10. Instead user expects 'N' number of purchase proposals to create as per your quota arrangement

Cause

System does not create proposals as per Quota Arrangements in Supply Planning. 

Resolution

This is an expected system behavior.

 

Keywords

Quota arrangement; Quota arrangement in supply planning; , KBA , SRD-SRM-SI , Supplier Invoicing , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions