Plant is centrally blocked in SRM

[Former Member]

Hello Experts,

We are running SRM5 ECS. A user reported that they have access to a plant but it is not listed in search help for location while creating SC. When we checked BP of plant in BP transaction, Central block flag is set under status tab.

I can find in BP changes logs that its set by a RFC user (may be a job). I would like to know what change in ECC or in SRM is picked up by the job (if its a job) to set this flag in plant's BP.

Regards,

Karthik

[ivy_li]

Hi,

As I know, plant is replicated to SRM from ECC via the following reports:

BBP_LOCATIONS_GET_ALL
BBP_LOCATIONS_GET_FROM_SYSTEM
BBP_LOCATIONS_GET_SELECTED

You may check if this plant is locked in ECC side(I have no idea how to do this in ECC side).
If so, this block might be replicated to SRM by setting the central block.

To be honest, I only heard about blocking vendors in ECC side.

BR,
Ivy

[Former Member]

Hi,

To check further, I took plant's BP number and went to BUT000 table and took the GUID then passed it to BBPM_BUT_FRG0061 where I can find its blocked.

To my surprise, how come a plant's BP's GUID found in this table? It shows perfect vendor master data there. Whereas the BP is not a vendor in SAP, so its not in VENMAP table in SRM.

I am stuck there 😞

Reg,

Karthik

[ivy_li]

Hi Karthik,

Your original description is wrong, and if you mention central block for vendor not for plant, this should be a different story.

A, If you set the block flag to all purchasing organizations, then

this will be reflected as central block in SRM.(trx BP)

B, If you set the block flag to selected purchasing organisation, then

this will be reflected as purchase block in SRM.

You may check the field 'PURCHASE BLOCK' in table BBPM_BUT_FRG0061.

this depends on which block you set in XK05 in ECC side, and it will replicate to different places in SRM.

Best regards,

Ivy

[Former Member]

Hi,

As I said before, its not the vendor's BP since it does not exist in SAP vendor master and VENMAP table. It's the plant's Business Partner only but strangely it exists in table BBPM_BUT_FRG0061.

BR,

Karthik

[ivy_li]

Hi,

As I mentioned, if you set block indicator for one select purchasing organization, it will update the block indicator in table BBPM_BUT_FRG0061, not trx BP.
If you set block indicator for all purchasing organization, it will update the central block in trx BP and BUT000 table.

BR,
Ivy