Back end Purch Organisation

[Former Member]

Hello All,

What is the significance of the Back end Purch organisation/group in the Org plan?Is it esssential to run certain scenarios,if so which are they?

Is a user essential in this Purch group?If not available then what are the effects?

Regards,

Nagarajan

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

see, Normally business likes to have backend contracts or info records as a SOS source of supply for SC item.

In organisation structure normally employees are assigned to plants and depts

where as pur org are differrnt units to which pur grp are assigned

pur grps are given responcibility of depts

so while creating SCs resp pur grp is picked

and so is pur org because of pur org/pur grp assignment

then the backend SOS is picked up correctly for the resp pur org correctly by SRM

Users are not essential under PGRP

but if you have scenarios like

purchasers will complete SCs in sourcing cockpit

or perform sourcing applications like bidding or auction for external requirements

or create BI or auction locally then you will need users under PGRP

in short for sourcing applications

BR

Dinesh

[Former Member]

Hi Nagarajan,

In addition to Dave's and Dinesh's responses please find below the following points which may address your issue.

1. Backend P.Orgs and P.Groups are required in case you want to use materials / vendors created in backend R/3 and got replicated to SRM.

2. The backend P.Orgs and P.Groups are must in case you are using Classic or Extended classic implementation scenarios.

3. As mentioned by Dinesh in case you want to use backend contracts or Purchasing info records you require back end P.Orgs / P.groups.

4. So its must that users are assigned to these backend (R/3) P.Orgs / P.groups in case you want to use any of the backend materials / vendors / contracts / P.Info records etc.

Hope the above points make you more clear and helps in understanding the issue. Clarifications are welcome.

I would recommend you to go through the SRM210 and cook book available on SAP Service Market place which gives you much better idea.

Award points for helpful answers.

Rgds,

Teja

[Former Member]

Hi. All users need to belong to a purchasing group and org or they will not be able to shop.

The group is derived in a shopping cart from the responsibility of the pruchase groups and the purchase org is derived from the group.

Regards,

Dave.

[Former Member]

Hi Dave,

I know that unless there is a purchaser or Purchasing group one will not be able to shop.They can be part of the Local Purch Org & Local Purch Group.

My query refers to the Porg backend which is also maintained in addition to the Local Pur Orgs in the Org Model.

I hope you can now differentiate

Regards,

Nagarajan