Payment Terms not copied

[Former Member]

Hi,

I have a PO A which needs to be created with the reference of PO B. Now when i adopt PO A from PO B, the system copies everything. When I change the Vendor, it picks up the address from the Vendor Master Data but not the Payment Terms.

Kindly suggest why this is happening so!

Thanks and regards

Manoj Karthik S

[mauro_bianchi · Accepted solution]

Hi Manoj,

When you create a PO the Master/info/Vendor record is read once and the data is picked up from here. With the copy function you are just copying the data from one PO to the next or one line item to the next.

Changes to master records will not be picked up through the copy function. When you create a PO, each time you hit the enter button data is being read from the Master records. This does not happen when copying data.

When copying a PO to another PO, users specify that they want to create a PO with the same details as the refered one. Therefore it is more common to consider that, they want the payment terms to stay the same as the original PO even when the vendor is changed.

Since the reference purchase order is more specific than master data, SAP's standard is designed not to redetermine the payment terms from the new vendor master. However, you can try a following work around:

If you specify the new/updated vendor in the Purchase Order (ME21N) before copying the PO and hit the enter before referencing to PO, the Payment Terms are carried over from the Vendor Master Record.

If the PO is copied first then the Payment Terms will not be overwritten by the new/updated Vendor Master.

Regards,

Mauro

[Former Member]

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Seems like when you are changing vendor, as the PO was originally copied with other vendor, it is causing problem getting the payment term or may be your new vendor does not has payment terms. In this case you should manually maintain the payment term if its maintained in vendor and still not picking.

Edited by: Afshad Irani on Jun 3, 2010 2:25 PM

[Former Member]

Hi Manoj,

Pleasecheck the Payments terms has maintained at vendor master -->Purchasing data.

If not assign it.

Because PO will copy the payment terms from there only.

SAM