SRM 7 - Multiple POs from 1 Shopping Cart

[Former Member]

Hi Everyone,

Is it possible to create multiple POs from 1 shopping cart? 1st PO will have partial order qty and the second PO will have the remaining order quantity.

Thanks.

[Former Member]

Hi,

As I said earlier, quantity cannot be changed in sourcing cockpit in SRM 7.0 so multiple PO's for one line item for splitting the quantities is NOT POSSIBLE.

However As a way around this though, when the user creates the PO from Sourcing, they can edit it directly from sourcing 'Edit Selected Drafts' or afterwards and here reduce the quantity so then some remains in sourcing for further PO's to be created with different vendors.

So you can have multiple PO's for single line item by splitting the quantities.

In Classic scenario, Edit selected draft would give a error message ( Backend document cannot be displayed) because system unable to pull out the document created in ECC for editing.

Way around for classic scenario :

1) Create PO for full quantity against one vendor in SOCO.

2) Modify PO quantity in ECC (reduce the quantity)

3) Go to Sourcing again, same SC is available now with balance quantity. Now you can order this quantity with different vendor and hence can have multiple PO's for partial quantities in SC.

Hope this satisfies your requirement.

Regards,

Ram

[Former Member]

It sounds like a simple scenario, doesn't it. But unfortunately, it is not possible through standard sourcing with the scenario of SC >> PO. However, your requirement can be met by SC >> BID >> QUOT >> Multiple POs each with desired quantity.

[Former Member]

Hi Pipsquik,

Firstly you need configure Sourcing to make sure imcomplete sc will transfer to SOCO, or system will convert SC to an imcomplete local PO.

Then you could manually create PO with refer to SC. The open quantity of SC will be converted to PO quantity as default, but you could modify it manually.

Just one way fro your reference.

[Former Member]

Hi Everyone,

Is it possible to create multiple POs from 1 shopping cart? 1st PO will have partial order qty and the second PO will have the remaining order quantity.

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In SRM7, it is not possible to create multiple POs from one SC. In sourcing you can combine multiple SC's (using BAdI BBP_SRC_DETERMINE) and process to create a single PO.

Also the BAdI BBP_GROUP_LOC_PO is used for :

If the shopping cart items do not have a source of supply, the standard system creates a purchase order with one purchase order item for each shopping cart item. This is necessary because once a source of supply is assigned to purchase order, the items can no longer be divided up between different purchase orders.

You use this Business Add-In if you want to create a single purchase order for particular shopping cart items that do not have a source of supply assigned to them.

So if your SC has 2 or more line items, then it can be processed in sourcing for multiple PO based on above logic.

But if your SC has one line item, then splitting of qty for multiple PO is not possible.

Hope this clarifies your query.

Regards,

Ram

[robin_janke]

Check BADI BBP_GROUP_LOCAL_PO_BADI. This can split a shopping cart on your requirements.

Regards,

Robin

[Former Member]

Yes. You can, through sourcing cockpit.

[Former Member]

I'm quite new to SRM, is the Sourcing Cockpit similar with Carry Out Sourcing?