Info record without plant and purchasing organisation

[Former Member]

Hi all

1) I am able to create an info record without any plant or purchase organisation assigned. I assume that this info record will be used across all plants and Purchase org. for that vendor and material combination. But on creating the same, I can create only General data and Text. I cannot enter any net price or any other important details that are actually referred on creating a PO or anything. Then, what is the use of creating an info record in this manner? If the system should not allow creating an info record without plant or Pur. Org., where in SPRO should I make these fields mandatory (I want it to be made mandatory in the initial screen itself and not in Basic data ?

2) If I give only the plant, then the system is saying it is mandatory to enter a Purchase Organisation. A plant can have many Pur org. If I want to use the same info record for all the purchase organisations belonging to that plant, do I have to create seperate info records for individual Pur. Org.? Or can this be customized to make it one for all?

Thanks in advance

Regards

Mui

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi

When u create info record with out plant and pur org obviously you cannot maintain pur details. U can Maintain only general data. SO PUR ORG is mandatory.

If you want to maintain one info rec for all the plants then you should have common pur org(for ex ref pur org,central pur org) that is to be assigned with all the plants.This is not only applicable for info record also for one common p.o for all plants.That is oneof the purpose of central and ref pur org

rgds

Maharajan

[Former Member]

Mui,

System behaviour as explained by you is standard and you shouldn't try to alter it.For detail you can read relevant documents in Help.sap.com

Regarding your second query, the error message is standard and is called via main program SAPMM06I wherein it is clearly spelt that

IF eine-ekorg EQ space

then Fire the message.This is standard code.And you shouldn't temper it either.

Pls note that the Info record No. will be ONE & SAME for a particulat MATERIAL - VENDOR combination irrespective of no. of plants/Purch Orgs you maintain for. System will not assign a different Info record No. if you maintain the record for a Diff Plant or for that matter a diff Purch org. You can check this out.

I hope this should clarify your doubt.

Regards,

Pankaj

[Former Member]

Hi Pankaj

Thanks for ur reply.I was just wondering about the effort that has to be put in, for creating seperate info records if the values are the same. To my understanding, there is no copy function also available for this.

I created info record for another Pur org and the info record number is the same.

Thanks again.

Regards

Mui