Material Status : Restricted Procurement.

[Former Member]

Dear Experts ,

I need to maintain the Plant status for procurement in such a way that :

1. No POs should be created against external vendor .

2. Stock Transfer Orders to be created . That PO with vendor as site .

In define material status , plant specific settings , Purchasing if i use B , the system stops creation of all POs .

Please tell me how can i control the creation of POs as stated above ?

Regards

Anis

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

You may try following -

1) In material master activate 'Source List'. Maintain required procurement type as F / Special procurement key as Stock Transfer.

2) Maintain the source list for the receiving plant with supplying plant as source.

3) In this case you will be able to create POs with stock transfer only.

Regards,

Prashant

[jagadeesh_madiwalar]

Hi,

Even you can control this through Authorisation, control this throgh PO Document type and asiign only STO PO to that Plant Users , so that then can have a procure only through STO.

[Former Member]

Hello Experts ,

Thanks for your valuable inputs ,

@Satish Kumar - We need to restrict a few materials & hence we cannot do anything at the material type level .

@Prashant - Thanks a lot , it is a very helpful suggestion .

@Raja - We dont need to block the material at plant level , but need to restrict its PO usage .

@Indranil - ABAP development is a solution , but will always call for changes if one needs to add/delet the material usage restrictions .

@Jurgen - Procurement Type settings are at Material Type level . Hence will not server the purpose.

@SRK - Authorization is for an entire document type , we need the control for a material for all users & not user specific control .

Thanks all of u for the help.

Regards

Anis

[JL23]

procurement type setting is customized as proposal or fixed value at material type level, but it is copied from there into the material master, and in material master it is at plant level MARC-BESKZ

if you want to be flexible then you should not customize this as a fix value there.

[JL23]

just set the procurement type in MRP2 view to inhouse procurement and enter a special procurement type to procure the material at a certain plant.

[Former Member]

Implement badi ME_PROCESS_PO_CUST....here write a code that if document type (BSART) is not equal to your STO document type for planr (WERKS) XXXX then system should give a customized error...take help of your ABAP person and see if this works

Regards,

Indranil

[Former Member]

Create source list in ME01 and block at plant level

[Former Member]

Hi,

You may try via material type as it has the control on internal/external purchasing.

Regards,

Sathish Kumar