Purchase group in ME59N

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

We had two service PRs with different purchase group with same source of supply. as per standard sap PO has only one pg, can you please confirm which purchase group should be picked in po(auto po created by batch jobs)

Thanks in Advanced

Edited by: SRahulS on Oct 21, 2011 8:20 AM

[Private_Member_733670]

Hello,

It is recommended to have only one Purchase Group (PG) per Purchase Order (PO). If you have two Service PRs with different PG and same source of supply, then you should pick the Purchase Group that is in line with your organization's procurement policies and procedures. It is suggested to consult procurement department to determine the correct Purchase Group to use.

[former_member396762]

Thanks Patryk,

You are completely right. In the end it is a question of the procedure in managing PRs with different PGs. And from my point of view a user of me59n should use the correct input in the selection screen (for instance "PO for each PG") instead of asking for the result after an insufficient handling. Each result is wrong and right (PG of first PR, PG of last PR, PG of any PR) in the end because there is only one PO header field.

Kind regards

peter

[former_member396762]

We have the same problem. We see that the purchasing group of the last PR is taken...

[former_member396762]

When using ME59N with adding some PR numbers in the selections screen and all other fields in the selection screen are empty, then the program analyses all the PRs and combined those together which can be put in one PO. This list is sorted by PR number and PR item. After that the details of the last PR item per PO are used to build the header data of the PO.

Summary: Sort all the PR items moved to PO by number and item, and the last PR item defines the purchasing group of the PO.

[Former Member]

thanks