on 10-06-2011 3:18 PM
Hi,
In my company we have a scenario where one purchasing org serving 2 co.code. This has been set up nicely in ECC, and we suppose to have the same scenario in SRM as well.
First, I do this:
a. Create company A and company B
b. Create org unit below A which is linked to central purchasing org X in backend,
c. Making sure that attribute BUK (Co.code) A, B assigned to purchasing org X.
d. Create org unit below purch org X, and linked to purchasing group Y in backend,
e. Create person Z below purchasing group Y, the attribute BUK of A, B is inherited to him.
Using user id Z I make a test, create PO using cost center in co.code B, and it works well, the PO created passed to backend using purch org X, co.code B
When testing creating PO using cost center in co.code A, it fail. It seems that somehow co.code B is defaulted in PO, and it trigger error saying cross-company purchasing not allowed (I think because I'm using PO with co.code B to charge Cost center in A).
At first I hope that setting BOTH co.code for the purchaser will lead SAP to use location to derive the co.code, but I was wrong. SAP still take the FIRST co.code it found in the attribute.
Then, I plan to use BADI for document change; and to my suprise there is no way to change the co.code in the BADI. So I'm stuck in here as well.
Lastly, I did this:
a. Moving purch org X (and all below, including purch group Y and person Z) to the root,
b. I remove the attribute BUK in the purchasing org
With this I hope that SAP cannot find the co.code from attribute and for the last resort derive the co.code from the location.
Then when creating the PO, I got error message that SAP cannot derive co.code, and cannot continue
Then I'm in dead end now. Is it really NOT possible to have central purchasing in SRM? This seems to be wrong. I mean as SRM is targeted to make procurement simple and regulated, it sure SHOULD think about central purchasing. Even in ECC we can have a central procurement serving 2 company codes.
Or is there any other way? Appreciate if someone can shed some light on this.
Best regards,
John
This is related to change co.code in PO. SAP give note 1079525 as how to change web dynpro so field co.code will appear and letting purchaser to choose co.code. This has solved our issue
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