Centralized or Reference Purchasing Organization

[Former Member]

Hi

Plz help me to tell what is Centralized or Reference Purchasing organization. Are they same? And Whether they are assigned to plant or not???

Thanks in advance

[jaheer_hussain · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Centralized Purchase Organization u2013 This is an umbrella organizational unit responsible to purchase goods/services for all the plants under all the company codes.

Reference Purchase Organization u2013 This organizational unit is used to share certain master data ( Vendor master, pricing data ) and transactional data ( outline agreements, contracts etc ). Many purchase organizations can be assigned to a single reference purchase organization.

With Regards,

jaheer

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

hi jaheer..

You solve my 90% question but just one point that whether this reference Purchase organization is also assigned to Plant or CC?

And to what this Centralized Purchase Organization assigned to?

And is that any Purchase Organization responsible for any Plant or Company Code can refer this Referencing Purchase org.???(Its master or transactional data).

Plz help for the same

Thanks

Neha

Edited by: Neha121988 on Jun 14, 2011 8:25 AM

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Neha,

You assign the Reference purchase organization to your main purchase organization,

with this the main purchase organization can use all the contracts or agreement maintained by the reference purchase organization.

Hope it will help you further.

Regards,

Yawar Khan