Multiple Purchasing organisations

[Former Member]

Dear SRM Gurus,

We are on SRM 5.0

Our backend R3 structure is as below:

Plant 1----Company Code 1 -

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Purchasing org 1

Plant2 -

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Company Code 2 --- Purchasing org 2

We have created both Purchasing organisations in SRM and assigned the same buyer with different purchasing groups to each of the Purchasing orgs.

Based on the location of the shopper, we want the purchasing organisation to default during the PO creation.

Firstly how do we assign the same buyer user to both purch orgs?

Secondly how on PO creation do we get the PO to default to the correct PO org and company code?

[Former Member]

Hi Claudia,

Thanks again for the info.

I've assigned the user to both purchasing groups but its seems when I test the PO creation from sourcing it is defaulting to the newest purchasing organisation that was created in tx PPOMA. Do you know why it would do this?

All orgainsational attributes and extended attributes for the company codes, locations etc are set specific for each purch org.

What is your thinking?

[Former Member]

Hi Claudia,

Thanks so much for the response.

Will implement and let you know.

Just for the second question, our sourcing for shopping carts is based on product categories i.e. purch grp selected based on product category.

Will we still be able use this Badi to determine purch org?

[Former Member]

Hi Deelan,

yes, the BADI is pretty flexible and allows all kind of selection.

Cheers,

Claudia

[Former Member]

Hi Deelan,

for your first question: go and use trx POMA_BBP using "Purchaser Assignment"

view for the PGroup.Have a look into SAP Note 836262 for details.

After following the steps mentioned in the note, you will not find the purchaser´

assigned to the PGroup in PPOMA_BBP itself (where the default view would be

"Staff Assignment" view). The user would be still assigned to the other business

org unit. But in BUB3, when you display the available "Relationship" for the

purchaser's BP number, you would find a new "Is Employee of" relation to the

PGroup (in addition to the business org unit which the user already had). Then

the purchaser should be able to perform purchaser activities according to the role

assignment.

For the second, use BADI Assign Purchasing Groups to derive the right combi in

your case.

Cheers,

Claudia