change purchase organization customizing from company code specific

[Former Member]

Hi

We have been productive for several years and now we are going to create a new company code.

Up to now our purchase organization has been customized as 'company-code specific' but we also want to use this purchase organization for the new company code.

As a consequence we need to change the purchase organization customizing from 'company-code specific' to 'no company code' or 'plant specific'.

The questions are:

• is a change from 'company-code specific' supported and a straigth forward activity? (just do the change in customizing as company code info can be deduced from plant)
• if not straight forward - what are the side-effects? what should we consider? (e.g. open purchase order and so on)

Best Regards

Erling

[former_member197616]

Hi, A Purchase Organization is said to be company code specific when a P org is asssigned to a company code . Does in your case any P org assigned to one company code or many company codes ? sap says You can assign a purchasing organization to one company code. This is company-specific purchasing. Independent with out assignment Ywe  can assign a purchasing organization to no company code. This purchasing organization can then procure for all plants assigned to it, irrespective of the company code to which the plant belongs. Since each plant must be assigned to a company code, the company code can be determined via the plant in each procurement transaction, even if the procuring purchasing organization is not assigned to a company code. if a situation a purchasing organization must be assigned to one or more plants. This is plant-specific purchasing. And hence for the new company code you create decide on how to do , If you want to use a Pur Org which is assigned to another CC as cc specific , better have a new one un assigned . However system allows to use the old one . Regards,

[Former Member]

Hi Raghavendra Sai

Thanks for your repsonse.

I really appreciate that but just for clarification: Are your saying that I can just change the purchase organization  customizing from 'company-code specific' to 'all  plants/plant specific' without any side-effects? (see the 2 bullets in the  original message)

Best Regards

Erling

[JL23]

There are side-effects.

one disadvantage in handling: the user has to enter the company code at purchase order header level manually (or via personal defaults) it does not automatically default after entering the purchasing organisation.

Purchasing info records without plant will not allow to enter a  tax code as the purchasing org has no more a relation to a country, this was earlier available via the assigned company, Now you need the plant level to have a field for tax code.

[Former Member]

Thanks.