ERS Indicator in PO

[Former Member]

Hi,

We have contracts created by ref. purchase org. In this contract the 'GR based IV' and 'ERS' indicators at item level are not flagged. While creating the PO referring this contract, these indicators automatically copied from the contract and hence not flagged in the PO. POs are created by local purchase orgs.

My requirement is for these two indicators, the attributes from vendor master for local purchase org. data should be copied instead of contract.

any ways plz...

regards,

Mallik

[Former Member]

Hi,

The idea of a contract is that it is meant to be for very specific requirements. the master data on the vendor etc. is meant to be a more general setting and so if you create a contract and set flags in that, the vendor master data will not override these settings.

Consider that in some other implementations they may deliberately set the flags on the contract different to the vendor master data, they would then complain that these were being overwritten by the vendor master data settings??

So the system would be seen to be worng in both cases?

So please accept that the standard process is for the most specific data to be unchanged and so the contract flags must carry forward into the PO.

Why can these flags not be set "ON" in the contract?

Steve B

[Former Member]

Hi,

contracts and vendors are global ones. only in certain local pur. orgs, 'ERS' indicator applicable for vendors. so we cannot update this indicator in contract.

when PO is created for a vendor in local purchase org. and if the indicator is set in the vendor master, then only it should be copied.

regards,

Mallik

[Former Member]

Hi,

I can certainly understand the business need for this.

I would suspect that the only way of achieving this is to use a user exit to check the flags on the vendor master record and set them accordingly in any call off orders?

Would this apply to every vendor and every contract (i.e. ALWAYS take the flags from the vendor master?)

Steve B