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Vendor account group in centralized and decentralized purchasing

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Hi Experts,

I'm working in an implementation project and has got the below worry while designing the process. Kindly advice.

My client is having a corporate purchasing department, which is responsible for international (import) purchases for all the companies which are located in different countries.  And local purchasing departments, which are responsible for local purchases for the respective companies'.

Now my worry is, how do I segregate vendor account groups as Domestic and Import Vendor. Because the vendor who is in India and supplying goods/services to the Indian company, becomes a local vendor for the Indian company. At the same time, if he is supplying goods/services to the company which is in Canada, he will become a import vendor for the Canadian company. How do I segregate them now! kindly advice

Thanks & Regards,

Pavithra

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JL23
Active Contributor
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maybe it is just a wrong approach to define account groups for domestic and foreign in case the SAP system is used from a global player.

Account groups  are used to segregate authorization, to do field selection (mandatory, optional, display only, hidden), for separate number ranges .

Maybe it makes more sense to segregate account groups by other means, e.g. external vendors, group vendors, carriers, employees as they might need to have different fields mandatory, different partner roles for their purpose..

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Dear Juergen,

Thank you for you response. As you rightly said, even I'm thinking in the same way what you have suggested, but my finance team is saying like they would require this segregation for their activity!

I don't know how to segregate vendors by domestic and import or how to convince them to accept the vendor segregation based on the type of their service like service provider, material provider, asset provider etc...

Thanks & Regards,

Pavithra

JL23
Active Contributor
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Create 3 examples. A vendor in your country which is used by your company and the Canadian company, a vendor in which is in a country different to your country and Canada, and a third example with a Canadian vendor that supplies the Canadian company and also supplies your company.

The schedule a meeting and invite your finance team and the Canadian finance team, and then let them define based on those 3 examples what local and foreign is. I bet you can lean back for the whole meeting and smile.

JL23
Active Contributor
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Another approach would be to collect the requirements. What does your finance team analyze based on account groups and in which transaction and report do they even see the account group?

It is probably much easier to do most of these analysis based on a country than on an account group.

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p391977
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I feel you will have to create vendor codes for only local vendors.

Best Regards,

Radheshyam P.

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Hi Radheshyam,

No, I cannot create local vendors group as if the vendor is supplying to an oversean company too then he will be considered as import vendor.

Thanks & Regards,

Pavithra