'Preferred Vendor' and 'Vendor' in Purchase Order Partner Overview screen

[Former Member]

Hello All,

Please can you provide me with some assistance to the following issue we have on our SRM 5.0 system......here goes.....

In 'Define Sourcing for Product Categories config' , we have set the value to 'Sourcing is never carried out'. Now, when we manually assign a Supplier to the Cart and have it automatically converted to a Purchase Order, the Purchase Order is created but only in Held Status as only the 'Preferred Vendor' in the PO Partner Overview screen is populated with the other 'Vendor' field remaining blank and requiring manual intervention by our users

Please can someone explain how we are able make the system to always have the 'Vendor' field populated, therefore not needing any manual intervention.

Your help would be appreciated,

Thanks

Steve Walsh Jnr

[former_member183819 · Accepted solution]

Hi

Implement the following method , in which you will force prefer vendor

to fixed vendor for all applicable sc.

IF_EX_BBP_DOC_CHANGE_BADI~BBP_SC_change.

You will have to work with partner function 00000039 which is the

prefered vendor to move into the partner function 00000019.

In the BBP_DOC_CHANGE_BADI we provide the business partner data

through the IT_PARTNER interface table. the prefered vendor or desired

vendor has partner type 39, the regular supplier will have partner

type 19. a switch from 39 to 19 should create a po instead of

incomplete po.

BR

Muthu