purchasing group

[Former Member]

Hi experts

Can u please tell me what is the use of Purchasing group.

1 use i know: i can use it as a release procedure criteria.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi, Atul Ranka,

I will assist you on this,

u2022 Purchase groups are nominated people in a department within the company are responsible for creating purchase requisitions.

u2022A purchasing group is an organizational unit within logistics, serving to subdivide an enterprise according to IT, Administration, Procurement, Maintenance, Finance etc.

GENERAL EXPLANATIONS

u2022 The Purchasing organization is further divided into purchasing groups, who are responsible for day-to-day purchasing activities. A purchasing group can also act for several purchasing organizations

u2022 Purchasing group is a key for identifying the department who raised/created the purchasing document (Ex: Purchase requisition)

u2022 Purchasing groups in company represent the vendors and commodities.

DEFINITION OF ORGANIZATIONAL UNITS

u2022 Purchasing groups are classified based Product.

ASSIGNMENT OF ORGANIZATIONAL UNITS

u2022 Purchasing groups are not assigned to any organizational entity.

u2022 Individuals will be authorized to procure against purchasing groups; this can be set in personal settings in purchasing documents which will be defaulted while creating purchasing documents.

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Regards,

Sri.

[Former Member]

Hi Atul Ranka,

Purchasing group as per the library meaning:

The purchasing organization is further subdivided into purchasing groups (buyer groups), which are responsible for day-to-day buying activities.

A purchasing group can also act for several purchasing organizations.

In simple it is the group of people who do activity for day to day procurement. If you assign this group to materila master or info record.... it will reflect in external purchase document..

For your information, in release procedure purchase group will not be used... we will call it as a release group ( the people responisble to release the MM external document )

Purchase group will be used to create the Purchase order ...etc.

Regards

Anand

[kunal_ingale]

hi

pur grp is

A key for a buyer or group of buyers responsible for certain purchasing

activities.

The purchasing group is:

o Internally responsible for the procurement of a material or a class

of materials

o The principal channel for a company's dealings with its vendors

now u can say the purchasing GRp is the part of the Pur org

u can say it is the person or grp of person who is responsible for the purchase of a dept or project or plant

regards

KI

[Former Member]

Hi,

Purchasing groups as per SAP defination are persons or group of persons who actualy interact with the external vendors.

We can say the different function (departments of purchasing)

e.g. Export procurement,Import procurement,consumable procurement,steel procemrentetc .

might one person hadling then u can use perticular person as purchasing group say Mr Borse(import procurement),Mr Patil(consumables)

i think by the above example u can understand how to use this.

release is one of the use.

main use is for reporting (procurement cost as per purchasing group)

u can use the same as a contact person for external vendor.same can be printed on PO

u can hold responsible perticular person for PO.

etc etc....

regards,

sujit