The document discusses key aspects of procurement in SAP such as maintaining purchasing info records to define relationships between materials and vendors. It notes that info records can be created automatically or manually and describes outline agreements as longer term contracts between a purchasing organization and vendor that define quantities and time periods. Plants can also be defined as sources of supply when transferring stock between plants with external procurement.

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2.  Introduction
 Possible Sources of Supply
 Purchasing Info Record
 Outline agreement Item
 Plant
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3.  In any company, procurement is usually
done from same vendor at the same
conditions
 So you need to create info records with
or without material reference about the
vendor
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4. Sources of
Supply
Info Record
Contract
Scheduling
Agreement
Plant
Outline Agreement Item
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5.  Part of master data of purchasing
department
 Contains data describing relationship
between a material and vendor
 Conditions here are maintained at
purchasing organization level
 Can be created automatically or
manually
 Automatic creation possible with info
update indicator
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6.  Longer term agreement between
purchasing organization and vendor
 Apply for a predefined period and
predefined total purchase quantity or
certain total purchase quantity
 Two types: contracts & scheduling
agreements
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7.  In case of stock transfer from another
plant with external procurement, plant
can be used as one of the sources of
supply
 You can create plants as vendors here
 Plant assignment MUST be entered when
maintaining vendor master record
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