Team shopping cart and Shopping on behalf

[Former Member]

Dear Experts,

What is the difference you have observed between team shopping cart and Shopping on behalf?

Do you observe differences other than the below ones:

1. Team shopping cart can be taken over by any one in the team defined in the substitution of the creator in any stage (including even draft stage) so that the team members can enhance the shopping cart and take over it in the absence of the creator.

However, 'Shopping on behalf' does not offer the same flexibility. In absence of the shopping cart creator, the original requestor (shop for) can just have receive or confirm the delivery in the shopping cart.

Do you see any other differences other than the above ones?

Regards,

Ranjan

[ricardo_cavedini · Accepted solution]

Hello,

Check more information about team cart functionality in the link below:

https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/SRM/Team+purchasing

Kind regards,

Ricardo

[Former Member]

Hi

In simple words:

1. Team Purchasing --> this function is meant for procurement activities of a group of people for example a purchasing group having multiple people, so that anyone can take the cart forward. This helps in better management of workload between the group.

2. Shop on Behalf --> This function is generally used by secratories or personal assistants for buying on behalf of their managers.

So these two features are delivered for different business perspectives. I hope this clarifies your questions.

Regards

Virender Singh

[Former Member]

Hello Ranjan

Please find the answer below:

In both team purchasing and shopping on behalf of other users, a person other than the requester is involved in processing the shopping cart. However, the two functions are used in different situations:

If someone shops on behalf of another user, typically a single person works with the shopping cart from the start of the requisitioning process. For example, a purchasing assistant or secretary creates a shopping cart for a manager and follows the process through until the confirmation or invoice is created. Only the person on whose behalf the shopping cart is created can take over the shopping cart or the follow-on documents.

In team purchasing, any user who is defined as a procurement substitute can take over the shopping cart. Within this process, several users can be involved and can take over the team shopping cart from each other. This can be useful, for example, in the following situations:

An employee leaves the company, and the successor later takes over this person's responsibilities.

An employee is sick, and a colleague takes over the shopping cart.

A team of employees works in shifts, and a shopping cart that is time-critical must be processed by a colleague working in a different shift.

Well, the reference to this answer is:

[http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm70/helpdata/EN/8e/1753cca4a6450784f3e2d1ecf6b09a/frameset.htm]

Best Regards,

Lakshmi