Approved suppliers list in SCM-ERP Implementation Guide

The longer I think about it, the more I come to the conclusion that the current description of the vendor selection is just not fitting. Please don’t get me wrong: The procedure as Supply Chain consultant describes it is completely fine. And I think it fully reflects the requirements of Sonata. But the way we have it in our documentation is just not good. Where do we put the linkage of item to vendor as a requirement? It does not really fit to the supplier master nor does it really fit to the item master.

Therefore my suggestion is that you introduce one more process to Quality. It comprises steps 4 & 5 in Supply Chain consultant’s description:

4. Based on the feedback provided by Quality and the decision made by Procurement team, Supplier is declared as ’Approved Supplier’ - Outside system activity (It is actually in Oracle, you have the field in the Screenshot)

5. Purchasing team assigns the Items to Approved suppliers in ‘Approved Supplier List’ screen in oracle. - In Oracle system

KPMG does not have to change anything because of that. The process exists, we just don’t have it anywhere in our to-be’s. I think it would fit as 304-07. After the quality analysis has been completed, the purchasing team (or maybe rather the quality team??) assigns the status of the supplier and assigns the item(s) to him. Here we would have all our requirements and here we would also have our risks.

What do you think of that? We can also discuss it in our telco.

We are going to follow the same procedure for vendor selection that we discussed in the city and that you wrote on your mail. The items for regulated market (based on the requirement of that country) will have separate item code than the domestic market.

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