Where to capture country of origin for imports

[Former Member]

What is the best practice for capturing COO for purchases? Sometimes the COO is not known when creating PO, or is different than the PO. GTS can override, and report correct COO to customs, but what about ECC? If ECC is not updated, there will be a discrepency between ECC and GTS, and ECC is the "system of record". Is best approach to update PO when correct COO is known?

Thanks for your help!

[former_member215181]

Best practice is to record the CofO in the Import data of each Goods Receipt item. If, for one Material, it never or rarely changes from one receipt to the next, then it will also be worth recording the CofO as master data. This can be in the Material Master record, or better in the Purchase Information Record, or better still in the Batch Master record (if the Material is batch-managed).

If the CofO is held in master data, then it will be proposed in the GR, and only a simple check is then usually necessary before posting.