Original Equipment Manufacturer Managed Inventory

Abstract

In order to activate generally the process of OEM MI planning in SPP, the following setting in the master data has to be made. Since a B2B business is represented in the SPP-System, the corresponding partners and locations must exist as master data. On one hand the supplier location, which is the delivering respectively the customer facing OEM-location, and which is in SPP of location type 1001 (plant) or 1002 (distribution center). On the other hand the customer (end customer, wholesaler or retailer) needs to be modelled as a separate location of location type 1010 (customer). This customer location extends the corresponding BOD and is integrated as location of the lowest child level in the hierarchy as shown in Fig. 15.3.