Hello MM experts,
I have to setup a new quota arrangement for a particular material.
As per the current setup, the material master does not have any value assigned to "Quota Arr.Usage" field.
However, in MEQ1, there are a few quota arrangement records available (as per "Overview of Quota Arr Periods" screen).
The most recent of those records is for the period 1st Jan 2014 till 31st Dec 2014. The corresponding item detail screen shows 439 nos. "Quota Allocated Qty". However, this is for only one vendor (say vendor A), with procurement type "F" (external procurement) and this vendor has 100% quota. There are no other vendors setup for this period.
Requirement: I now need to set up a split quota between 2 vendors (say vendors A & B) with 80% & 20% split.
The record for vendor A needs to be modified to bring down the quota from 100% to 80%; also the special procurement key(L) needs to be assigned for this vendor, since it is going to be subcontract purchase. The other vendor (B) needs to be setup for the remaining 20% with external procurement F.
Problem faced: The field "Special procurement key" for the existing quota record is grayed and I cannot put in the value "L".
When I try to delete the existing quota record (with the idea of inserting a new one), I get the error message "Quota arrangement item cannot be deleted". The detailed help says "The quota arrangement item 001 cannot be deleted because it is active in the system (that is, the quota-allocated quantity is not zero). I get a similar error message when I try to delete the record from the header screen (showing validity period).
The question is how to setup the new quota arrangement in place.
As per SAP, quota allocated qty includes all purchase orders/schedule lines that have been placed so far for the material. So, even deleting all the open POs/schedule lines for the material from MD04 won't help, it seems.
Is there a solution to this?
Please let me know.
Thanks & Regards
Prabhu