on 10-04-2010 11:57 AM
Hello Experts
Is it possible to set up a corporate (read Centralized) Purchasing strategy, where in One Central purchasing organization creates and manages Central contracts for various Plants assigned to different company codes using SRM 7.0 with ECC Backend?
Tried to set this scenario up by assigning Purchase organization directly to Plants (in ECC) but the Contracts were failing during replication in ECC.
Any inputs on this are appreciated.
Thanks
Raman.
Note: Contracts went through successfully in ECC after assigning the Purchasing organization to Company code.
Hi,
IMG says "each plant must be assigned to a company code".
SPRO -> Enterprise structure -> Assignment ->
Materials Management -> Assign Purchasing Organization to company code.
Assign purchasing organization to company code
In this Implementation Guide (IMG) activity, you assign purchasing organizations to company codes.
Note
For information on maintaining purchasing organizations, see the IMG activity Maintain purchasing organizations.
You have the following options:
You can assign a purchasing organization to one company code. This is company-specific purchasing.
You can assign a purchasing organization to no company code. This purchasing organization can then procure for all plants assigned to it, irrespective of the company code to which the plant belongs.
Since each plant must be assigned to a company code, the company code can be determined via the plant in each procurement transaction, even if the procuring purchasing organization is not assigned to a company code.
A purchasing organization must be assigned to one or more plants. This is plant-specific purchasing.
For more information, see the IMG activity Assign purchasing organization to plant.
Actions
Depending on the form you have chosen, assign your purchasing organization(s) to the respective company code(s).
Regards,
Masa
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Hi,
Please check this.
SPRO -> Enterprise structure -> Assignment ->
Logistics - General -> Assign Plant to company code.
Assign plant to company code
In the IMG activity "Assignment Plant - Company Code" you assign each plant to a company code.
A plant can only belong to one company code.
Note
Complete functionality of the system can only be ensured if the plants assigned to a company code are only those situated in the same country as the company code.
It is therefore recommended that you also create a company code for each country in which a plant is situated.
Examples
Only then are tax postings created when transferring stock between plants in different countries.
The taxation procedure and Intrastat declaration are supported only for the country of the company code.
Requirements
Before you can assign plants to company codes, you must define the valuation control.
You may change the valuation control in the production system only after contacting your SAP consultant. Changes may cause inconsistencies in documents.
Actions
Assign your plants to company codes.
Regards,
Masa
Perfectly fine in ECC Context Masa...But in SRM Context, if we define One company code per Plant then the SRM Organization structure would become quite complicated -would it not? Thats why we are exploring if there is a possibility of using a single purchasing organization for handling procurement requirements at plant level,with the plants being assigned to Multiple company codes and Purchasing organization not being assigned to any company code but being assigned only to the plants.
So wondering would it be possible to leave the Company field in Function tab blank-if that would create complications in any process within SRM or ECC down the line.
Thanks.
Raman.
Ramana,
What error message you get in XI_MONI when contracts were failed in ECC? Is the replication failing in SRM or in ECC? You can also try using referenfce P org in backend ECC.
Thanks,
Jagadish
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Hi
if you want to distribute at plant level in the distribution you must SELECT location during the DISTRIBUTION itself.
and so that it will be distributed at plant level.YOU need to explicitly and you can not expect the system to determine the plant
Since you are mapping eacjh data in SRM to ECC. what is the detail error?
Muthu
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