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Standard VENDOR EVALUATION Process using SAP MM

Introduction:-

In this post I am going to write how vendor evaluation has been done using SAP Material Management module

In the SAP System, Vendor Evaluation is completely integrated into the MM Purchasing component within Materials Management. Vendor Evaluation accesses basic Materials Management data, Inventory Management data (such as goods receipts), and data from the Logistics Information System (LIS).

Vendor Evaluation: It is checking the performance of vendors based on different criteria for giving the ranking is called vendor evaluation. The vendor with highest rank can be chosen for sourcing or procurement activities.

The analysis of vendor evaluation can be made based on different criteria. Some of the important criteria are

1. Delivery

2. Quality

3. Price

4. Service

Basic setting or requirement before starting the vendor evaluation process

Vendor Evaluation Process

1. Define the weighting keys for main criteria of vendor evaluation: SPRO>MM>Purchasing >Vendor/Supplier Evaluation> Define Weighting Keys:

EQUAL WEIGHTS: All the Sub criteria under the main criteria will be the same weightage percentage

UNEQUAL WEIGHTS: All the sub criteria under the main criteria can have a different weightage percentage.

  1. Define the Criteria by which the system computes score for vendors: Specify whether the scores for the sub criteria computed manually, semi automatically or automatically. Can activate user exists customer own program to determine the scores (Performed by ABAP Team) SPRO>MM>Purchasing >Vendor / Supplier Evaluation> Define Criteria

Criteria can be price, Quality, Delivery etc

For each criteria, there is a sub criteria Ex: For Criteria Price, Price Level & Price List are the sub criteria. This will be based on standards

  1. Define the Scope of List

SPRO>MM>Purchasing >Vendor / Supplier Evaluation> Define Scope of List

Double click on Standard supplier evaluation

  1. Maintain Purchase Organization Data: SPRO>MM>Purchasing >Vendor / Supplier Evaluation> Maintain Purchase Organization Data

Update your purchase organization

Select Your Purchase Organization & Click on Main Criteria

Double Click on your main criteria & assign to your Sub Criteria

Select Weighting to assign the criteria

  1. Next, Check Point Scores for Automatic Criteria.

Create Vendor Evaluation: Use TCODE ME61 for vendor evaluation. Perform for about 2-4 vendors,

For Equal Weight Keys, Weighting Percentage will be equal Irrespective of any scores (same or different)

For Unequal Weight Keys, Weighting Percentage will be different Irrespective of any scores (same or different)

To generate a report, use TCODE ME6H

Evaluate sheet, use TCODE ME6F for all the vendors

Ranking list of the vendor TCODE ME65

Vendor Evaluation Transaction Code for reference

ME61 (Maintain)

ME62 (Display)

ME63 (Automatic New Evaluation)

ME64 (Compare New Evaluation)

ME65 (Evaluation Lists)

ME6A (Changes to Vendor Evaluation)

ME6B (Display Vendor Evaluation for Material)

ME6C (Vendors Without Evaluation)

ME6E (Evaluation Records Without Weighting)

ME6F (Print)

ME6G (Vendor Evaluation in the Background)

ME6H (Standard Analysis: Vendor Evaluation)

ME6Z (Transport Vendor Evaluation Tables)

Hope, It will also be helpful to you to find standard vendor evaluation process

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Harish Mallur

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      Author's profile photo Oscar Del Castillo
      Oscar Del Castillo

      This post is quite helpful and has given me some ideas, thanks for sharing!

      Author's profile photo Harish Mallur
      Harish Mallur
      Blog Post Author

      Thankyou for your valuable feedback

      Author's profile photo Bhumika dodia
      Bhumika dodia

      Hi,

      In My business Team has provided me only three criteria  only for Supplier Evaluation .

       

      Parameter    Weightage

      Quantity                  10

      Time -                      20

      Quality Notification  70

       

      they want report for only these parameters only. And also want to run all Vendor simultaneously like in Job , schedule .

      Can you explain , how to achieve this ?

       

      Bhumika

      Author's profile photo Harish Mallur
      Harish Mallur
      Blog Post Author

      You can maintain criteria whichever you wanted , as you mentioned

      Quantity, time , quality notification in different parameters chose unequal weighing

      valuate sheet, use TCODE ME6F for all the vendors

      Author's profile photo Bhumika dodia
      Bhumika dodia

      Can you show me it's config steps?

      Author's profile photo Anum Habib
      Anum Habib

      Thank you it is great and helpful blog for vendor evaluation.

       

      Author's profile photo Sandeep Kadam
      Sandeep Kadam

      Hi Harish,

       

      Very good article...Thank you for the detailed information.

       

      In my organization, we have a need to evaluate vendor with different set of criteria. e.g one set of vendors will be evaluated with Quantity, Delivery, Quality and Service and one set of vendors will be evaluated with Quantity, Delivery and Service.

       

      How can we achieve this. We are using SAP S4 HANA 2020 version

       

      Regards,

       

      Sandeep