Maintain Ext. Proc. Relationships
Application component: Purchasing
App type: SAP GUI
Description:   The External Procurement Relationship function enables you to check (and, if necessary, adjust) data relating to your external procurement relationships.   External procurement relationships are master data in PP/DS that make data from purchasing info records, contracts, and scheduling agreements available to that system for the planning of material procurement. In this way, you can not only reference a vendor from an external procurement order, you can also directly reference a specific item in an existing contract.  The external procurement relationship is directly linked to the relevant transportation lane and provides it with data from the purchasing info record, contract, and scheduling agreement. From the external procurement relationship, you can also branch directly to the transportation lane in order to maintain transportation lane data. 
Key features:   The External Procurement Relationship function enables you to display and change the external procurement relationships that exist in PP/DS and to restrict how they are used (by blocking the transportation lane, for example)-   On the initial screen for this function you define which external procurement relationships are displayed. For example: all external procurement relationships for a destination location (for example, plant 0001), all those for a source location (vendor Meyer Corp.), or all those with a certain external procurement category ("contract").  The external procurement relationships are displayed in an overview tree in the left-hand part of the screen, listed by external procurement category (purchasing info record, contract, OLTP scheduling agreement, APO scheduling agreement) and the logical system from which the data originates.  If you choose an external procurement relationship from the overview tree, the following data will be displayed in the right-hand part of the screen:    General information on the external procurement relationship (such as the source and target location, the product, and the validity of the external procurement relationship)    Status of the external procurement relationship(active or inactive)    Associated transportation lanes    Scheduling agreement data, for example, the release creation profile (only in the case of APO scheduling agreements)    Change External Procurement Relationship  Only certain data in an external procurement relationship can be changed:    Change planned delivery time    Activate, deactivate, and delete external procurement relationship   Change transportation lane ( Advanced Planning  Master Data  Transportation Lane  Maintain )    Create new transportation lane ( Master Data  Advanced Planning  Transportation Lane  Create )  Note  You can change the priority or block the transportation lane for a transportation lane in the external procurement relationship.If you block an external procurement relationship then it can no longer be selected in the source determination process.    When working with Advanced Planning and the external procurement relationship relates to an APO scheduling agreement, you can also maintain the following data:    Release creation profile The release creation profile for the scheduling agreement is not transferred from SAP S/4HANA. You must create a separate release creation profile in the APO system and assign it to the external procurement relationship. You define the release creation profile in Customizing for Advanced Planning under Collaborative Procurement  Procurement Scheduling Agreement  Maintain Release Creation Profile .     Confirmation profile You define the confirmation profile in Customizing for Advanced Planning under Collaborative Procurement  Procurement Scheduling Agreement  Maintain Release Confirmation Profiles .     Process  Here you can specify how confirmations are to be integrated in the scheduling agreement process.    Update liveCache  When an external procurement relationship is created, the field Update liveCache is automatically filled with the value 10 - At time of release creation .     Scheduling agreement with forecast  You use this indicator to specify whether forecast/planning delivery schedules are to be generated in addition to operative schedules. In the standard system, this indicator is not preset when an external procurement relationship is created.  If you want to work principally with forecast/planning delivery schedules, you can specify that the indicator is automatically preset when an external procurement relationship is created using the Business Add-In (BAdI)  /SAPAPO/PWB_TPSRC_IN . Using this BAdI you can also influence other data relating to the external procurement relationship or the transportation lane.  Note  You can also specify in the release creation profile whether forecast/planning delivery schedules are to be generated in addition to operative schedules. For this reason, the settings in the release creation profile and the Scheduling Agreement with Forecast field must be harmonized.     Internet release  This indicator enables you to specify whether or not the scheduling agreement release is an Internet Releaseand whether it has to be acknowledged by the vendor.     Address data  Address data is not transferred SAP S/4HANA. If you do not maintain any address data on the Partners tab page, the address data of the source location is used.   Use the relevant symbol to maintain your own address data for an external procurement relationship.    You can only influence other data by changing it in SAP S/4HANA (for example, a change to the scheduling agreement).   Deactivate External Procurement Relationship  If a purchasing info record, a contract, or a scheduling agreement is deleted in SAP S/4HANA, the relevant external procurement relationship is deactivated in PP/DS.  This procurement alternative can no longer be used in the source determination process. The log for the source determination process draws your attention to the fact that the relevant procurement alternative has been deactivated.  Furthermore, no new transportation lanes can be created for deactivated external procurement relationships.   Delete External Procurement Relationship  If you no longer need an external procurement relationship in PP/DS, you can delete it. In order for you to be able to do this, the external procurement relationship must have been deactivated. Furthermore, no external procurement orders or quota arrangements may exist in PP/DS for this external procurement relationship.  You can delete external procurement relationships as follows:    In the external procurement relationship  Display the relevant external procurement relationship (Advanced Planning  Master Data  Procurement  Procurement Relationships) and choose Delete.     Using the report Delete Procurement Relationships  Choose Master Data  Procurement  Delete Procurement Relationships and select the external procurement relationships that you want to delete. Choose Delete. All external procurement relationships marked accordingly with the green symbol are deleted.      Mass Maintenance  You can use mass maintenance to change data that can also be changed in master data maintenance.  
Business roles: Production Planner - Advanced Planning
Production Planner - Advanced Planning : 
Plans, monitors and adjusts material supplies produced internally and ensures material availability for sales order fulfillment and production supply in Advanced Planning (PP/DS).