PO by vendor and material

[Former Member]

We have a requirement to create a separate PO by vendor and material. Looking for some possible solutions from the community.

Scenario: MRP runs and creates PR's for materials M1, M2 and M3. Source lists are setup to source the first three materials from V1. In the current setup ONE PO will be created for M1, M2 and M3 with vendor V1 (ME59N)

PO1::V1

Line10::M1

Line20::M2

Line30::M3

Expected Result: We want three PO's created with the same vendor but the three different materials on each PO (M1, M2 and M3) and sent to the vendor by the system using ME59N

PO1::V1::M1

PO2::V1::M2

PO3::V1::M3

Reason: Our vendor considers each PO as a "Ship Complete" and it causes PO's to be delayed if one of the materials is not available. They do not mind receiving multiple PO's from us.

Hope this explains the situation. Thanks in advance for your time.

[Former Member]

I appreciate your prompt response!! I must have skipped through the "Per Requisition Item" checkbox. Ill use that and validate if that fulfills the requirement.

Thank you again. I will update this post in case it does not work as desired.

[srinivas_k23]

Hello,

If you want to create those PO's for vendors and materials (multiple materials) separately, yes you can do so using t-code: ME59N i.e. by converting those PR's to PO automatically via Purch. Requisitions but for that you below are pre-requisite:

> Material master (purchasing view) - tick/flagged for the automatic PO allowed check box

> Source list should exist with vendor and material combination - fixed source and MRP relevant

> Purchase Info record should also exist with material and vendor combination

Hope it clarifies you.

Regards,

Srinivas

[jagdeepsingh83]

When you run MRP, you may getting three PRs for M1, M2 and M3. So when execute transaction ME59N..Check indicator per Requisition and Requisition Item under the selection screen of New PO.

I think this will meet your requirement for three POs per requisition or per requisition item.

[JL23]

Have you tested ME59N? Were there any difficulties to get this desired result?

In the middle section of the selection screen you decide which criteria will force a new PO.

As the MRP run does not combine requistions which will go to the same vendor you have 3 requisitions, so the requisition box would already be sufficient