Purchase Organisation

[Former Member]

A plant-specific Pur. Org has to be assigned to both the Plant and the Co. Code. Whereas, a company-specific / Corporate- group-wide Pur. Org. need to be assigned only to the plants and not the Co.Codes. Why, assignment of Pur. Org to Co. Code is necessary in the former case but not in the latter case?

[Former Member]

You have a small confusion in understanding.

You should not assign a POrg to CoCd only when u intend to procure for multiple company code (Corporate group) with that P Org.

[Former Member]

Hi TS,

I would like to correct you a bit.

Yes,Pur. Org is not assigned to Co.Code in case of Corporate-group-wide purchasing AND ALSO IN CASE OF Company-specific purchasing (purchasing organization is responsible for the purchasing activities of just one company code).

I'm interested in knowing the logic behind the way the assignment is done for Plant-specific purchasing and Company-specific purchasing / Corporate-group-wide purchasing (From Co. Code assignment perspective). Why it is necessary in one case, and why it is not in the other. ofcourse, we know that SAP suggests to handle that way. But, there must be some reason behind this.

Reason???

[Former Member]

Praveen,

You have the following options:

1) Company specific purchasing. Pur org is assigned to one company code and only the plants within this company code can utilize the terms and conditions of this purchasing org.

2) Purchasing org is not assigned to any company code. In this case it has to be assigned to the plants that it procures for irrespective of any company code. So the purchasing org's terms and conditions can be used by all the plants assigned to it irrespective of the company code it belongs.

3) A plant specific purchasing org. In this case a purchasing org is assigned specifically to one or more plant.

Thanks and Regards,

Maheshwari

[Former Member]

Hi Guys,

Thanks for your useful replies.

I have one more point regarding Purchase Organisation Assignment.

For Instance, If we consider Company-specific purchasing, Is it not enough if we only assign plants of that Co. Code to the Pur. Org? What is the significance of Co. Code assignment to the Pur.Org? (pls don't reply again the known answer "only the plants within this company code can utilize the terms and conditions of this purchasing org.")