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As of Release 4.0A, you can use the material or part number used by the manufacturer for procurement purposes in addition to the company’s own material number. You can use the manufacturer part number in requisitions and purchase orders and determine it using the source determination process.
You create a separate material master record (= MPN material) for each manufacturer part number. This has a separate material type (HERS), contains the manufacturer and points to the master record for the company’s own material.
Manufacturers that are not vendors can be represented by special vendor master records using the vendor account group MNFR.
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You assign a manufacturer part control profile to the company’s own material in the latter’s master record. The control profile for manufacturer parts is defined in Customizing and determines the usability of MPN materials.
Materials planning and inventory management are carried out with respect to the company’s own material.
If a material is procured from a single manufacturer, you can enter the manufacturer and the manufacturer part number in the master record for the company's own, inventory-managed material.
If a material is procured from several manufacturers, you create a separate material master record 
(= MPN material). This has a separate material type (HERS), contains the manufacturer and the manufacturer part number and points to the company's own, inventory-managed material.
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Control profiles for manufacturer parts are defined in Customizing and are assigned in the master record for the company's own, inventory-managed material.
The manufacturer part control profile determines the usability of the MPN material. Among other things, you can stipulate whether:
The PO text of the MPN material or the company's own, inventory-managed material is to be adopted in the purchase order
The MPN material has to be entered in the purchase order
The MPN material may be changed during the procurement process (for example, when a requisition is converted into a purchase order) including changing the MPN at the time of goods receipt.
A new price determination process is to be carried out after a change in the MPN material
Info records can be created for the MPN material or for the company's own, inventory-managed material.
The list of approved manufacturer parts is to be checked.
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Among other things, you use the control profile for manufacturer parts to determine whether info records can be created for the MPN material or for the company's own material.
If you have maintained info records for MPN materials, you can utilize the source determination process using the source list or quota arrangement for MPN materials. 
Source list/quota arrangement records relate to the company's own, inventory-managed material.
In the source list and the quota arrangement, you can define combinations of manufacturers and manufacturer part numbers as preferred or excluded for procurement purposes with respect to specific time periods and plants. 
The MPN material and Manufacturer fields are offered to you in the source list or quota arrangement for maintenance if a manufacturer part profile is entered in the master record for the company's own, inventory-managed material.
In the list of approved manufacturer parts, you can specify which MPN materials may be procured during which period, whether they must be taken from a certain revision level or whether they are blocked. You can use the enhancement AMPL0001 to define your own criteria regarding the admissibility of manufacturer parts.
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