Can we block Material/Vendor in SAP? What are the reasons to do this?

1.      Can we block Material/Vendor in SAP? What are the reasons to do this?

Answer 1 for Vendor: 

Yes, we can block the vendor in SAP as per the requirement received from business.

Ticket:

 Business user has been placed a request that they should block/Unblock the vendor X repeatedly because they use to procure only certain times from that vendor X, they would like to ensure no one should place to that vendor by mistake and when we place we don’t want to block and unblock for purchasing and payment purpose, is there any solution for this?

Solution:

Here the business user is unblocking the vendor for PO purpose when required and blocking again after PO, and he again unblocking the vendor for payment purpose, so they want resolution – As business user having only XK05 access he is unable to block for particular segment/ One particular user can have MK05 access, so that instead of blocking for both the activities they can block for purchasing when required and unblock.

MK05- purchase block for purchasing purpose and financial data will be processing as per the vendor master.

If you are blocking any vendor in MK05, we use to block at purchase organization level, so make sure you don’t have centralized purchasing in your company.

Material:

Answer: 

Yes, we can block a material as per the request but before blocking- is its requirement to block the material throughout organization or specific plant.

We have 2 options to block – Client level OR purchase organization level.

Client level- Material blocked for all plants within the client

Purchasing tab- X-plant material status- Block it only for purchasing activities.

Q) What is the requirement to block a material in company?

A) Required quantity is already there in plant and for some time they don’t want to do production for that material due to demand, if there is safety stock maintained then user can request for material block for some time.

It avoids the risk of ordering PO for that material by some other buyers.

A)     the usage of that material is currently restricted by the country due to safety features, so that we can block that material for some time up to policy changes, after that we can unblock.

What is the requirement to block a vendor in company?

A)     If the quality of the vendor providing is poor, then company would request for blocking the vendor for some time.

Note: If we are blocking any single material from vendor, then try to use source list to block the vendor.