Transfer of newly-relevant (EU) Purchase Order items to SAP GTS (Brexit-related task)

[former_member343561]

Hello, I'm trying to understand how to manage the transfer of existing (undelivered) EU Purchase Order items to GTS once the EU flags on the GB country code in ECC and GTS have been removed. I don't think the option in the recovery menu is valid since that indicates that failed transfers are held in a table to be re-sent with this transaction and these aren't failed transactions.

The 'initial transfer' program /SAPSLL/MM0A_DISTRIBUTE_R3 looks to be an viable option but I am unable to test yet since the EU indicator hasn't been removed in our development ECC system. I can't find any SAP/Brexit notes that would suggest a method to manage this. Does anyone have any knowledge or suggestions how to manage this?

Many thanks

[former_member215181]

Hi Emily,

In case you're thinking about Declarations after Goods Receipt, there shouldn't be too much problem with the P.O's. Each new IBD following the EU flag change should transfer ok, and the associated GR's should appear in the work-list. I guess you'd only have a problem with any IBD created before the flag change. Not sure if that helps you?

Regards,
Dave

[mouaz_benredjeb]

Hi Emily,

Reflecting further on this, I fear that after removing the EU membership flag for GB, you will see ALL POs in the WL, even those created before Brexit and that need not to be transformed into Import Declarations... something to check/bear in mind...

Mouaz

[mouaz_benredjeb]

Good to know we are both based in the UK 🙂

Thanks for explaining what you meant by EU PO or UK PO as I wasn't clear about it. In my mind, a "UK PO" could have meant either a purchase order to deliver to a UK location or a PO from a UK vendor (or even a PO with both vendor and receiving plant in UK).

From feeder system perspective, the EU flag is irrelevant for the PO replication as POs for domestic or intra-EU goods movement can still be relevant for Compliance checks so the PO will always be replicated to GTS irrelevant of the EU flag in your feeder system (if PO type if flagged to be relevant for Compliance or Customs of course).

On GTS side, I had a look at the coding to populate the Customs before goods receipt WL in GTS. The before goods receipt WL will only display entries where the country of the FTO and the country of the goods supplier/vendor are different and, in case the country of the FTO is flagged EU then the country of the supplier/vendor has to be non-EU.

So, from your perspective, as soon as you will remove the EU flag for country GB, then your FTO becomes non-EU too and as long as the vendor/goods supplier is not in the UK (irrelevant if he is inside or outside the EU), then the PO will show up in the WL. This is applicable for all entries in the WL, either created before or after the removal of the EU flag for GB (as long as the PO was successfully replicated to GTS of course). So the short answer to your question: yes, undelivered POs should be showing up in the GTS Import WL after removing the EU membership flag for country GB.

As the relevance/non-relevance of the PO (and I guess for the IBD too) for the before goods receipts WL is only based on a GTS logic (not a feeder system logic), I would suggest to un-flag country GB as being EU member in your GTS dev or sandbox system and give it a try.

[mouaz_benredjeb]

Thanks for confirming it is related to Customs Management.

The vendor in the PO is UK or non-UK based?

[mouaz_benredjeb]

Hi Emily.

In order to help you, I guess the GTS community would need to know to which service/area of GTS you would like to replicate the PO: Customs or Compliance or Risk Management (LTVD).

The answer to your question could depend on this factor (among other things).

Cheers.

Mouaz BEN REDJEB

[former_member343561]

Yes, of course. This is related to Customs management. Sorry for not including.

[former_member343561]

We are based in the UK. We currently create declarations for 3rd country imports. Once all the countries in the EU become 3rd countries to us, we need to be able to recognise the existing open EU PO items as relevant and transfer the PO detail to GTS. We do not want UK POs in GTS. I *think* new EU POs will be OK. I am concerned about the pre-existing EU POs in ECC that still have deliveries outstanding that we need to create import declarations for. thank you