PP/DS and Special Procurement Key

[Former Member]

Hi All:

We are splitting the company - say A and B. Assume plant 1 goes with company A and Plant 2 goes with B. Before the split all material of A-1 where procurred from B-2. We used special procurement key in MRP I of material/ A-1 to point to B-2. So when the Product Heuristic was run in APO, it created PR for the material/A-1pointing to material/B-2. Now, we are splitting the company. Ideally, when you run the Product Heuristic for any material/ A-1, it should generate a PO and then the CSR of company A should place a sales order with company B. and Company A should receive the goods against the PO in company A.

When I removed the special procurement key for one material in A-1 and ran the product heuristics, i got a systems message in APO - Order not created for product xxxxx location 1 date....quantity....

My question is, what do I need to do in config and where, so that when the product heuristic is run, it creates a standard PO? Or what is the normal design if what I am saying dont make any sense.

Thanks for your help in advance.

Ryan

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Narayan,

You might have implemented intercompany business process earlier.

vendor is linked to supplier plant, and this vendor linkage to the plant needs to be removed and also check through the intercompany business process settings that needs to be changed.

once you remove this link, if you maintain a inforecord with new external vendor(without linking the supplying plant) in ECC and CIF to APO you should see transportantion lane created, and this will generate PRs, which can be converted to POs.

Hope this helps.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Kiran:

Thanks for the answer. Right on the dot. Solved my problem.

Thanks again.

Narayanan