Purchasing manufacturer's itemsCompanies often order components from purchase business partners who do not produce the components themselves. These intermediate purchase business partners offer equivalent components, which are items that conform to their original item's specifications, from different manufacturers. These functionalities are available to specify, approve, and use manufacturer's items:
Important!
MPN items To use the MPN item functionality, select these check boxes:
For more information, refer to Setting up and using MPN items. Multiple manufacturer items These restrictions apply to the multiple manufacturer item functionality:
To use the multiple manufacturer item functionality, select the Multiple Manufacturer Item check box in the Items - Purchase (tdipu0101m000) session. For more information, refer to Setting up and using multiple manufacturer items. Note You can convert the multiple manufacturer master data to the MPN master data for an item. For more information, refer to Converting multiple manufacturer items to MPN items.
| |||