Is it possible to combine multiple Pur Reqs for multiple materials to one vendor into one PO through MD07?

[Former Member]

We have material planners who use MD07 (traffic signal screen) Stock/Requirements List, Collective Access tab to review material requirements by MRP Controller.  Once the list is created, they select individual materials and review them in MD04.  In a lot of cases, Purchase Reqs (PRs) are reviewed and adopted into POs individually for each material.  Sometimes they will combine multiple PRs for one material into one PO.  This is a good practice.  However, from what I have found, it is not possible to combine multiple PRs for multiple materials into one PO.  If this was done it would dramatically reduce the number of POs that we are issuing to suppliers.  Problem statement:  We issue too many POs which causes additional influxes down the line (receiving dock/goods receipts processing, receiving issues, invoices, invoice issues, etc.).  Does anyone know of a way to address this problem without a major overhaul in approach or customization of the system?  Thank you in advance!   

[Former Member]

Hi,

This requirement  always comes up in an implementation, To combine multiple PR into one PO-Same vendor.

However , there is no automatic way of doing it because there is only 9999 line items possible per PO & if it exceed, how would auto trxn to react? Terminate?

that's why control is manual, user have to do do

Regards,

Jatin

[Caetano]

Hello Michael

As far as I know, this is not possible directly from MD07, only from the MM transactions.

The following thread suggests the following procedure to convert several PRs into one PO:

Drag and drop the first PR from the item overview to the shopping card on top of ME21N,
then open the PO detail delivery schedule tab and drag  and drop all other PR to the shopping card shown  in the schedule tab

You can use the same procedure, calling the order conversion from MD07 and then drag and drop another PRs into this PO.

BR

Caetano