Assignment of purchase org

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

We have four plants assigned to 1purchase organization & same pur org is assigned to 1code. After 2years now roll out is going on so for new co code same purchase org is responsible, for that i have deassigned previous co code to Pur org and made purchase org plant specific. Am i going rt? Kindly explain me in future any problem will come because from 2years purchase organization is assigned to 1 code and now it is deassigned.

Thank you

Sap MM

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

You did it rightly ! Transaction OX17 (Assign Pur Org to Plant) is linked to transaction

OX18 (assign plant to CoCode).

If you are assigning more than 1 plant to this purchasing org, the

assignment of the plant to purchasing org. has to support the link

between the plant to the company code.

You may want to verify the links between plant, porg, & Ccode.

Please note the following point as well

1) We can assign a purchasing organization to one company code.

this is company-specific purchasing.

2) We can assign a purchasing organization to no company code.

This purchasing organization can then procure for all

plants assigned to it, irrespective of the company code

to which the plant belongs.

Since each plant must be assigned to a company code,

the company code can be determined via the plant in

each procurement transaction, even if the procuring

purchasing organization is not assigned to a company code.

A purchasing organization must be assigned to one

or more plants. This is plant-specific purchasing.

[Former Member]

Hi,

As per the description you have created a new company code for which same purchasing organisation is procuring which was procure for your four plants from another company code from last 2 years.

In this case you muse deassigned the purchasing organisation from the company code, which you made 2 years back and assignde it to the plants of your new comapnay code. This in SAP is called as cross company code purchasing.

Here in this you have assign purchasing organisation to plants only. Because if you assign it to company code it will become company code specific.

So while creating purchase order when you specify the plant you will specify the company code.

Regards,

Tushar Patankar

[srinivas_k23]

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[srinivas_k23]

Maria,

As per my understanding with reference to your query, there may be centralized procurement in the old (previous) company. And now in the new company the procurement process has changed which is plant specific procurement, thats why you might have de-assigned the Purch.Org to the new Co.Cd. If that is the business process following in the new company (which is done through Rollout process). Then whatever you have done is perfectly alright.

Because as there is Company specific Procurement (also called centralized procurement irrespective of plants, but for all plant the procurement can be done by only by the P.Org.

And the other is Plant Specific Procurement (also plant wise procurement, for this each plant have its own P.Org assigned to it).

So, please understand the new procurement process in the new Co.Cd (which is done thru Rollout) and then customize it accordingly.

Hope this will clarify your issue.

With Metta,

Srin