Automatic creation of intercompany PO when creating a Sales Order

[Former Member]

Hi Experts

Is there a standard way of triggering an intercompany PO when creating a sales order to the final customer (or the other way around, triggering a sales order to the end customer upon creation of an intercompany PO)? Scenario: business has setup a logistics company (company code X), which its purpose is to deliver goods to the final customer (home customers). However, sales orders are created from seperate chain of stores which belong to another company code (company code Y). This chain of stores have one sales organisation (since there is over 1000 stores under a chain). I need a way to represent that a sale originated from a store/plant belonging to company Y to end customer A. Also, I need a billing document (intercompany) from company code X to store/plant beloning to company Y.

Issues: in the intercompany config (assign intern customer numbers to sales org) - is there a way to assign a customer number at site/plant level so that when creating an intercompany billing it can be picked instead of the one assigned to the sales org and where can this be specified in the sales order (remember: in my scenario there are multiple stores/plants that belong to one sales organisation and it is not possible to use one customer number linked to the sales organisation.)

Desired results:

Sales order from store/plant YY belonging to company code Y to end customer A

Intercompany billing from plant XX belonging to company code X to store/plant YY

End customer billing from store/plant YY to end customer A

Thank you in advance for your help.

[Former Member]

Hello Tsmash

I think you can acheive this with Regular Sales order + Inter Company STO combination.

Maintain customer numbers for each of the Plants from Company Y for the sales area belonging to Company X.

Then do the config for STO in MM using this menu path:

SPRO/Materials Management/Purchasing/Purchase Order/Set up Stock Transport Order

Here, in the activity 'Define Shipping Data for Plants', enter each of the plant-customers and the Sales area belonging to Comany code Y. Carry out other activities in this area appropriately.

Similarly set up Custom ( say Z1) Special Procurement type for Plant YY for stock transfer from XX using this menu path:

SPRO/Production/Material Requirements Planning/Master Data/Define Special Procurement Type:

Here maintain procurement type as F, Special procurement as U and plant as XX. You may need to repeat this config for each of the receiving plants (over 1000 stores under a chain) from co code Y.

In the material master MRP 2 for Plant YY, maintain procurement type as F and Special Procurement as Z1.

Sales order will be received under Co Code Y and sales area belonging to Y form customer A,

Because of the MRP config, a PO (STO) requirement will be raised on Co code X and plant XX. XX will send the goods to YY via a STO delivery using the Shipping data from 'Set up STO' config,

Plant YY will send the goods to A and bill that customer. Co Code X will raise an inter-comany bill on Co code Y.

That's how it should work. Try it and revert with any issues.