Samples/Trial materials

[cooladas]

Hello all,

I have a requirement relevant to trial/sample materials. Apart that they dont want to create the vendors (in cases of new vendors) so as not to fill their system with vendors that may not be ever utilised in the future they dont even want to create a material...
As I see it those are not feasible, all relevant data has to be created as well as a Quality Info Records although the QM consultant said that this is not necessary.
Is there any other way to handle this? as I see it there are no workarounds? correct?

Thank you for any help

[Ha Tran]

Hi,

What is the process you have defined to manage these sample materials? Any stock quantity report requirement? or payment to vendor?

Cheers,
HT

[cooladas]

Hi HT,

the requirement is:
1. Free Trial Sample - delivery paid by company
P.O 'free item' - delivery cost paid through FI as P.O has no pricing.
I guess there is no other way.
There is a request to have specific materials from vendors be blocked for procurement based on Quality issues. This could be controlled by fields relevant to material status at material level. Is there any better way through quality control?

Thank you

[Ha Tran]

Hi,

For your trial sample material, you can maintain the PO with net price as 0.00001 and add the freight into your PO as planned costs.

For the block material, any setting in the plant-specific (or cross-plant) material status field in the material master will prevent this material from external procurement from all vendors. If this requirement is only for a nominated vendor, then you can use source list.

Cheers,
HT

[cooladas]

Thanks mate!