relationship between Shopping Cart and PO in ECC

[Former Member]

Dear all,

I am new in SRM, please provide me a clue.

May I know the relationship of a shopping cart to the PO in ECC6?

For example, one shopping cart can consist of multiple line items and each line item can be converted into a PO document?

Essentially, it will mean one shopping cart can be tied to multiple PO documents because each of the shopping cart line items can be linked to multiple PO documents.

Correct?

Regards,

Daniel Tuff

[former_member207661]

Hi Daniel,

Your understanding is correct to the point that one Shopping Cart can be linked to multiple Purchase Orders. But, about one Shopping Cart line item linked to multiple PO line items is not correct statement.

Let me tell you in other way.

Say, a SC has 5 line items with below combinations of Supplier(assuming other deciding factors for single/multiple PO to be same in all line item)

Line1 - Supplier1

Line2 - Supplier1

Line3 - Supplier2

Line4 - Supplier2

Line5 - Supplier2

Now, on approval of SC, this will create 2 POs(say PO1 and PO2), 1st with 2 line item and 2nd with 3 line items.

If we talk about line item level mapping, each PO line item will have a corresponding SC item

PO1 -

Item1 will have SC Line1 as Parent SC Item

Item2 will have SC Line2 as Parent SC Item

PO2 -

Item1 will have SC Line3 as Parent SC Item

Item2 will have SC Line4 as Parent SC Item

Item3 will have SC Line5 as Parent SC Item

When talking about SRM PO and ECC PO, SRM PO will be replicated to ECC PO as it is.

Hope this helps.

Warm Regards,

Shyam Agrawal

[bharathi_ponnusamy]

Hi Daniel,

If I am correct in understanding your question, you are enquiring the possibility of creating multiple purchase orders for the same shopping cart.

If that is the case, please find the example as below

If the shopping cart has been created with the multiple vendors, then multiple purchase orders will be created.

Kindly correct me if I am wrong in my understanding of your question with further inputs. I will try to understand further and respond.

Best Regards,

Bharathi