Criteria for automatic grouping of Shopping Cart

[Former Member]

Hello, I have searched OSS everywhere and I can not find documentation on this...

What are all the rules/criteria that will determine if a shopping cart item is valid for automatic grouping (sourcing relevant indicator = 'A')?

This must be documented by SAP somewhere in a note....

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Joyce,

Preferred vendor is not a valid source of supply. If you assing 'preferred soruce of supply' to shopping cart (within classic scenario) system will not create PO in backend as it does not consider this souce of supply as 'valid' source of supply.

So the answer is, vendor from vendor list /contract/inforecord is a source of supply and NOT the 'preferred' vendor.

Regards,

Amit

[Former Member]

Hi Joyce,

With report BBP_SC_TRANSFER_GROUPED it is possible to group many requisitions into one purchase order or bid invitation using the same vendor and source of supply. Using Submit to Group there is the opportunity to add requirements from the sourcing transaction to this grouping process. The purchase orders and bid invitations are generated by the report itself not from the sourcing transaction.

This report groups together requirement items to which a valid source of supply has been assigned (for grouping into purchase orders) and whose product category has been enabled for grouping (sourcing option in Customizing).

In cases where assignment is automatic, the system sets the requirement as Transferred to Grouping.

In cases where a source of supply is assigned manually, the purchaser has to choose the function Transfer to Grouping in the sourcing application for the requirements.

You should schedule this report periodically, and make sure that the report is run separately for each document type (purchase order, bid invitation).

Prerequisites

You have assigned each relevant product category to a sourcing option for grouping, for example, Automatic Grouping, Sourcing for Item Without Assigned Source of Supply.

For more information, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Supplier Relationship Management: SRM Server -> Sourcing -> Define Sourcing for Product Categories.

For other features and all details you can refer the report documentation in SE38.

I hope this answers to your question.

Regards,

Prashant

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[Former Member]

Thank you for the helpful reply...one more question ... is Preferred Vendor (partner function 39) a valid source of supply for grouping? Or only vendor (partner function 19)?