Question Re: Purchasing Groups not listed in Personal Settings in Enterprise Resource Planning Q&A

Purchasing Groups not listed in Personal Settings

Former Member — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:17:55 GMT

Hi Experts,

I hope you can help with this.

In transaction ME51N, when a user goes into Personal Settings the drop-down list for selecting a Purchasing Group is empty, however in Personal Settings for transaction ME21N the drop-down list is populated. The user is able to select a purchasing group when they actually create the PO or Req.

I have searched the config for anything that may cause this and have trawled the the Internet with no joy.

Hopefully somebody has come accross this before.

Best Regards

Chris

Re: Purchasing Groups not listed in Personal Settings

former_member182609 — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:37:03 GMT

If you go ME51N personal setting drop down list you can find morefield tab.If you select this one then you can see purchasing grop .If you select purchasing group then it will show in your drop down list.

This is default in ME21N as the purchasing group maintained at header level not at item level like PR.

Re: Purchasing Groups not listed in Personal Settings

tejyadav — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:38:05 GMT

Check below link for your Problem,

http://scn.sap.com/thread/1315059

Re: Purchasing Groups not listed in Personal Settings

former_member182609 — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:39:03 GMT

Refer screen shot

Re: Purchasing Groups not listed in Personal Settings

Former Member — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:44:44 GMT

Thanks for your reply Sridhar. I have already done this and can see Purchasing Group in Personal Settings. The problem is that there are no values available to select

Re: Purchasing Groups not listed in Personal Settings

Former Member — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:49:22 GMT

Thanks for your response Tej. I also found this thread whilst searching the Internet. The suggested solution was to open an incident with SAP. I was hoping to avoid this

Re: Purchasing Groups not listed in Personal Settings

former_member182609 — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:53:34 GMT

If you are not able to see any values then write a OSS note to SAP.I can see in my case vaues in drop down list.

Re: Purchasing Groups not listed in Personal Settings

tejyadav — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:04:57 GMT

I don't think there is any settings or configuration for this defaults in Personnel settings, So as suggested in the thread that will be the only options I think to raise to SAP

Re: Purchasing Groups not listed in Personal Settings

Former Member — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:09:00 GMT

Dear Chris,

Please goto transaction SE11 :

Search help : H_T024_ME

Click on Display TAB.

Selection method T024
Search help exit ( no search help exit)

Please check if search help exit exist. If exist, please remove it and it may caused by your wrong modification.

Regards,

ian Wong Loke Foong

Re: Purchasing Groups not listed in Personal Settings

Former Member — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:10:35 GMT

Dear Chris,

Also, please check below for standard fields:

Please goto transaction SE11 :

Search help : H_T024_ME

Click on Display TAB.

Selection method T024

Click on Definition TAB

EKGRP 1 1 EKGRP
EKNAM 2 2 EKNAM

Please check that only above two fields are present. Please check that search help H_T024_ME has not been modified.

Regards,

ian Wong Loke Foong

Re: Purchasing Groups not listed in Personal Settings

JL23 — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:58:08 GMT

he said it works in ME21N but not in ME51N,

both transactions use usually the same search help H_T024_ME

As this is no like this in his system, I assume that a different search help is assigned to the field in structure MEREQ_PROP in his system

Re: Purchasing Groups not listed in Personal Settings

Former Member — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 08:52:45 GMT

ME21n Personal Settings uses Search Help H_T024_PS

ME51n Personal Settings uses Search Help H_T024_ME

ME51n uses Search Help H_T024

I will try changing the Search Help for ME51n Personal Settings to H_T024_PS in the sandpit and will let you know the results

Re: Purchasing Groups not listed in Personal Settings

Former Member — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:54:15 GMT

Thanks Ian. The cause of the problem has now been found.

The Search Help H_T024_ME had 3 additional items instead of the normal 1. The standard ABAP that populated the list of Purchasing Groups had a check to ensure that there was only 1 additional item, so therefore no Purchasing Groups were added to the list.