STO problem: vendor have several plants

[Former Member]

Dear Expert,

A and B  are two affiliated companies in one business group, A want purchase some products from B through stock transfer order according to business requirement.

According to policy one company only has unique vendor/customer code in system, so B has unique vendor code of company A, but B has several plants product different product, when A order different product he should place order to different plant of B, but we only can define one supply plant in one info record, so only unique supply plant of B in stock transfer order, otherwise the STO will not have shipping tab in item level, is there any standard way or enhancement we can solve this problem?

Thanks with best regards

Jian

[JL23]

does a plant send invoices or is this done by the company?

It is the company who bills the other company for business transactions done at plant level.

Hence you have to have for each plant a vendor to do your logistic work in STOs, and you have one vendor master which represent the company, and this one has the role of invoice presenter, as well as the pay-to partner.

[Former Member]

Hi Jurgen,

there is a restriction, B is A's vendor and only one vender number according to policy, so we can not create several vendor number for all plant of B.

Thanks

Liu jian

[JL23]

the policy was probably written from people who do not know the SAP STO process.

So you either keep your policy and do a normal purchase order - sales order business, or you amend the policy and can use a STO process where no sales order is needed.

just black and white, no other colour available.

[Former Member]

Hi Jurgen,

Yes, I agree with your opinion, in standard configuration we can not fulfill all requirement at same time, but if there is any enhancement can realize such function?

business senario:

1.one company has one registration number and will be check in vendor master data, so only one vendor numbe for one company.

2. this is roll out project and existed company only have one plant and use STO, user want to follow old procedure in new company, but this company have two plant...

Best Regards

Liu jian

[JL23]

No way.

you cannot assign the same plant to 2 vendors. table T001W has only one field for a vendor number.