Blocking Vendor which is associated with Contract

[Former Member]

Hi,

Can we block the vendor in R3 associated with the Contract in SRM? If no then what are the pre-requisites for same?

[Former Member]

Hi there,

Jobs BBP_VENDOR_UPDATE_DATA_JOB and BBP_VENDOR_GET_DATA should be scheduled

on a regular basis to ensure systems are uptodate.

If you access Transaction BBPMAININT in SRM you will see the followin

Extras --> Blocked Data

3 types of lock

Central Posting block. This will create the u2018central blocku2019 in SRM

Central Purchasing block will also create a central block in SRM

Block for a selected Purch Org will only set a block on the Purch org in SRM.

But from the SRM design perspective

- If the central purchasing block or the central posting block

is set at the R/3 vendor master, we set the central block of

the BusinessPartner.

- If the purchasing block for a purch.-org given or the

delete-flag for a vendor< >purch.-org assignment is set at

the R/3 vendor master, we set the purchasing block at

purch.-org level.

central purchasing block / central posting block

==> central BusinessPartner block

if gs_lfa1-sperm is initial and gs_lfa1-sperr is initial.

    gs_data-centralblock = space.

  else.

    gs_data-centralblock = 'X'.

  endif.

purchasing-block (for this purch.-org) / delete flag

for the vendor/purch-org assignment ==> purchasing block

at purch-org level

From our perspective - and with regards to the fields that the

BusinessPartner offers, that how it should work.

And that's what we delivered to customers for years - so other

customers will rely on this behaviour.

Hope this helps,

Kind Regards,

Matthew