Priority between purchasing groups

[Former Member]

Hi guys,

I was wondering how I can find out what purchasing group has the highest priority when a purchase order has been created for a material and a vendor assigned to different purchasing groups.

thanks in advance

[BijayKumarBarik]

Hi,

You can maintain purchasing group in your material master and create purchase requisition for that material- you can find purchasing group defaulted from material master to your purchase requisition. Also you can create your Purchase Order WRT that purchase requisition-- you can find purchasing group defaulted purchase requisition to your new Purchase Order.

But if you set default value as purchasing group* in Personal Settings in your ME21N screen, the purchasing group* available will be defaulted in your Purchase Order instead of purchasing group available in your material master during PO creation in ME21N.

Regards,

Biju K

[Former Member]

In ME57 input parameter should be  Purchase group.

Base on the Delivery Date or Release date you can set your priority of converting purchase requisition to purchase order.

Or

New Document type has to be create ZEMR - Emergency Purchase requisition. Then we can sort with document type.

[JL23]

The assignment happens with automatic PR creation from MRP run

The purchasing group from material has priority

The purchasing group from vendor master is only taken if you have no purchasing group maintained in material master.

each buyer is usually a purchasing group assigned and he is often even restricted via authorization to this purchasing group.

this means the buyer starts the activities in ME57 looking for requisition assigned to his purchasing group. He assigns then the source of supply, if not already automatically done from MRP run, and processes the requisition further into a PO.

[Prasoon]

Hi,

   Purchase group refers to individual buyers.

   When you are creating a PO, the purchase group wont be copied from any of the master data (material master / vendor master / info record). You have manually maintain the purchase group in PO header or maintain it in personal settings (in ME21N) or in Su3 - parameter tab with EKG parameter ID.

Regards,

AKPT

[former_member183424]

As of my knowledge, At the time of PO creation, Purchase group is a free field. It will not copied from neither vendor master nor material master.. You have to enter it manually..

In standard, there are no option to check priority level for purchase group field at the time of PO creation, compare with vendor master or material master..

May be a development can fulfill your requirement..

Regards

Dev