Question:
Hi,
I am working for a Retail. In the normal process all our goods go through our warehouse, but we have to deal with direct deliveries from our suppliers to the store as well.
We have built the following process:
- The supplier delivers directly to the store.
- The next day the supplier send a file to head office with a consolidated invoice for all stores. In the file there is as well a part with the delivered quantities to the stores.
- The file is checked technically adn then uploaded to create a Purchase Order for an administrative DC.
- The admin department checks the PO and after confirmation the file is uploaded once more --> the gooods receipt is posted, the invoice verification is done and the stock transport orders to the individual stores are created as well.
the problems we have with this process is:
- the set up cost for the supplier are high
- there are too many files for the admin department --> too many FTE currently working on this
- the Appl Man Support is a major cost as well
- the stock in the stores is not accurate for these articles
- the application to upload and split the file to be able to upload goods receipt an dinvoice receipt is outdated.
Does anyone know what Standard SAP is using as best practice or do you know a smart work around?
Thanks,
Marco
Answer:
Hi
Cant the stores directly raise a late purchase order. Why does it have to go through central warehouses.
The only problem here would be that forecast is not consumed at CW or if you have a volume rebate with the vendor at ur DC.
thanks,
Vardhan