To procure a specific material from multiple suppliers in predefined proportions, which feature can be used in SAP S/4HANA?

The feature that enables the procurement of a specific material from multiple suppliers in predefined proportions is the Quota Arrangement. This functionality is particularly useful when a company wants to ensure that multiple suppliers provide the specified material, allowing for a systematic and planned distribution of purchase orders among those suppliers.

A quota arrangement defines the suppliers and their respective proportions for a selected material, ensuring that the procurement process adheres to the intended distribution. This ensures that no single supplier is overburdened, promotes supplier diversity, and allows for better negotiation leverage with multiple vendors. This approach can enhance supply chain resilience and provides the flexibility needed when relying on multiple sources for a single material.

Other options like Purchase Order, Vendor Evaluation, and Source List serve different purposes. A purchase order is a document that requests the delivery of goods or services but does not inherently manage multiple supplier proportions. Vendor Evaluation focuses on assessing suppliers based on criteria such as quality and delivery performance, not the procurement distribution. The Source List allows a company to designate approved suppliers for certain materials, but it does not manage the distribution proportions as effectively as a quota arrangement does.