Facilitate cross company procurement

[Former Member]

Hi,

         We have one Root Node under which there are two Companies. Each Company has it's own Purchase Organization (Say A and B) . So till now there was no  cross company purchasing. But now the requirement

1. Is to have one set of users (in a Pur.Grp) assigned to a P.Org  should be able to  create Contracts for both Purchase Orgs.

2. Workflow should pickup users for the respective P.orgs for which they have created the document only.

To accomodate first one, I have added the Org Unit of Purchase Org B and the Purchasing Group B1 in the Responsibility tab of  Purchase Group A1.

The Roles and authorizations have also benn taken care of.

But when I goto the portal, I am not seeing both Pur.Orgs and Pur.Groups in F4 option. Can some one help me with what I am  missing here?

Thanks & Regards,

Krishna

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Krishna,

Please refer the below threads for solution pointers:

http://scn.sap.com/thread/1358841

http://scn.sap.com/message/1992429#1992429

http://scn.sap.com/thread/1998720

http://scn.sap.com/message/3694597#3694597

With your set up of different company codes,the F4  help will always hsow Purchasing groups for only one company code but as mentioned in the last thread you can change the Purchasing group for the user in the background.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Deepti,

           Sorry for the delayed response. The information provided by you is very useful.

I could meet the requirement of creating the Contracts for both org by maintaining the values in Responsibility tab of the Purchasing Group and by creating a new security role.

However the new issue is, though I am able to create the Contracts for other P.Org and distribute successfully, I am not able to search those in POWL. The POWL is pulling only the records that belong to my Purchase org and does not pull the Contracts of other Purchase Org even though I am the creator.

Are there any controls in Config / Portal Groups or a BAdi? Please help me with this.

Thanks,

Krishna

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Please check if the BADI   BBP_WF_LIST  can be used.

Helpful link:

http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/SRM/BBP_WF_LIST+-+Change+Worklists+and+Search+Results+Lists

[harishsarathy29]

Hi,

Pls check removing all elements in the responsibilty tab . I beleive it should determine both the purchasing group then and user needs to select the one preferred.

Pls let me know the result. If you get any breakthrough

harish