Who may supply, at what price

Orders copy whatever the masters hold. May closes with 412 of 486 materials under named sources, 74 sourced by habit, and 41 prices old enough that their next receipt books variance no vendor caused.

RuleGovern who may supply and at what price as data: source lists complete, info records fresh, and staleness measured, because orders copy whatever the masters hold.

Neverblame the market for variances the masters caused. An order copying a year-old price books a variance the day the receipt lands, no vendor required.

Sourcing governance is two master files. Their gaps become orders, and their staleness becomes variance.

◆ The two masters, measuredcoverage and freshness.

Source governance, 31 May	Materials
Source list maintained	412
No source list, buyer decides	74
Active purchased materials	486

Info records	Records
Price current within a year	396
Price older than a year	41
Info records on file	437

The 74 uncovered materials are where sourcing is a person, not a policy: legitimate sometimes, invisible always. The 41 stale prices are tomorrow’s variance rows, already written, waiting for a receipt. Sample values are illustrative, never client data.

◆ Variance manufactured by master datathe price nobody updated.

When an order copies a stale info-record price, the receipt books a variance that looks like market movement and is actually housekeeping. Practitioners report variance reviews chasing vendors for numbers their own masters caused. Splitting variance by price age answers it in one cut.

◆ The single-buyer riskcoverage gaps have names.

Materials without source lists get sourced by whoever buys them, which concentrates knowledge in people instead of data. The coverage list, cut by buyer, shows exactly whose vacation would stop which purchases.

Use case

Problem

Sourcing lives in buyers’ heads, stale prices book variances blamed on the market, and nobody measures either master’s health.

What we build

Source coverage and info-record freshness as standing numbers: gaps listed by buyer, stale prices aged, variance split by price age.

What you get

Sourcing that survives its people: coverage gaps with names, variance reviews that separate market from housekeeping, and masters someone owns.

How much of your price variance is just stale masters?

We split it by price age and show you.

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Terms on this page

SAP: The vendor. Systems, Applications, and Products in data processing.
HANA: SAP’s in-memory database, the platform S/4 runs on.
MM: Materials Management, the purchasing and inventory module.
source list: The master naming which vendors may supply a material.
info record: The vendor-material master holding the order price.
ME01: The delivered source list maintenance transaction.
stale price: An info-record price old enough to book variance on contact.