third part sales-- new item can not be added in existing PO

[Former Member]

Dear all,

I have a problem when I realized the third part sales,

the whole process is as below:

PO was created automatically by PR trigged when saving SO, and PO was also changed automatically when changing SO and save.

But when I add a new item in existing SO and save it, another new PO is also created by PR trigged via SO. I wan to also add a new line in existing PO when I add a new item.

How can I do?

Thank you.

B.R.

[Former Member]

Thank you Zsuzsanna

[Former Member]

Dear Zsuzsanna,

I am appreciate to you to reply my issue and tell me the logic of SAP how to process.

According to my company actually business:

For third party sales on my side, it is just specify only one vendor. instead of multi-vendor. Is it possible to realize this funciton?

Thank you.

B.R.

and I also have another question.

I find delivery address in PO trigged by SO, it is not crorrect.

At present, delivery address in PO is the address of Plant not the ship to party address existing in SO.

Because of third party sales, vendor will send goods to customer directly according to the delivery address that is from ship to party.

I wish ship to party address will be copied to delivery address in PO

How can I do?

Thank you.

[former_member189545]

Hi,

I am sorry to tell you that the observed behaviour is standard.

Once you have created a PO automatically in this 3rd-party process,

data of existing PO item can be changed if you do changes in the

sales order, but no new items can be added. This is not possible by

design. So if you add a new item or a request schedule line to the

sales order you will always get a new PO.

Please keep in mind that adding a request schedule line means that

a new purchase requisition item is created.

For the subsequent process (PUR_ORDER_CHANGE_VIA_SD_EVENT) it does

not make any difference whether the new PR item was created from

a new item or from a new request schedule line within an existing

item.

If you save the sales order the PO automatic process will create a

new purchase order for all PR items which have been created in this

run. There is no design to search for a previously created one

and to check whether adding an item would be possible.

I give you just an additional explanation for this.

In this ALE process it is possible that not only one PO is created,

but it may be that several POs are created together with a sales order.

For instance if you have several items belonging to different vendors

then you have to create several POs.

If you then add a new line item or schedule line in the sales order

how should the system choose from the existing POs which one to extend

or whether rather create a new one? This is a complex logic which

was never designed in SAP standard.

Please refer to the attached Note 383565 (please just read the text,

the Note is not valid for your release because you already have the

relevant code) where it reads:

"If you save the sales order, the system does not create a new purchase

order for the new schedule line you entered. You have to create the

purchase order manually."

This was the error which was corrected with the Note. You therefore

see that the normal behaviour is that a new PO is created.

I hope I could explain the behaviour to you.

Kind regards,

Zsuzsanna