Vendor:

Vendor is a person or a company which supply the material to company wit

h cetain price , terms and conditions.
Types of Vendors:
Regular Vendors:
These vendors are regularly supplies the material to company.
Fixed vendors:
For certain materials (like low value and high volume items) company ide
ntifies certain vendors to take the material. Mostly they are local vendors.
One time vendors:
These vendors will supply material one time to company later they don't
approch us or once our company order the material from these vendors we don't or
der again futher from thses vendors.
Ex: supplying of Machinaries/operating supplies
we don't order Lathe machines regularly from a vendor.
Our company needs only one machine in its life time.
Note : For one time vendors, SAP will give a least priority during the vendor ev
aluation time.
IMG settings: Vendor master
1. Define vendor A/c group (OBD3)
SPRO-->Financial Accounting -->Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable -->Vendo
r Accounts -->Master Data -->Preparations for Creating Vendor Master Data -->Def
ine Account Groups with Screen Layout (Vendors)
[Vendor A/c Group: Vendors will be categorized based on certain criteria
ex: All foriegn Vendors as one group, Domestic vendors as one group or all one
time vendors as one group ]
Steps:
- click new entries and enter
Account group
XVAG
Name
- Click save

XXXX Vendor A/c group

2. Create Number Ranges for Vendor Accounts (XKN1)

SPRO-->Financial Accounting -->Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable -->Vendo
r Accounts -->Master Data -->Preparations for Creating Vendor Master Data -->Cre
ate Number Ranges for Vendor Accounts
[ Note: From Vendor master onwards all the documnets and master data will have a
no. length of 10 digits only]
steps:
- Click
- Click
- Enter
- Click

pencil marked interval button

insert interval/ + marked interval / shift +F1
a group code, from and to number ranges then press enter
Save and transport it manually

3. Assign Number Ranges to Vendor Account Groups (OBAS)

SPRO-->Financial Accounting -->Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable -->Vendo
r Accounts -->Master Data -->Preparations for Creating Vendor Master Data -->Ass
ign Number Ranges to Vendor Account Groups

steps:
- click Position and enter Account group = XVAG
- Link the Number range to our vendor a/c group
A/c Group
No. range
XVAG
XV
- click Save