SAP SRM - Purchasing Org Structure

[harishsarathy29]

Hi,

Pls can anybody let me know, how do we assign a user as a buyer to more than one purchasing group.

I had used to the attribute "Is Purchaser of" to assign the position of the user to one purchasing group. but

I could not assign to more than one purchasing group. Even If I do the assignment , system deletes the old assignment.

We have HR integartion of employees into the SRM Org, So I cannot assign a user under the purchasing group through staff assignment view.

Right now we are controlling through authrizations, though which during sourcing, shopping carts pertaining to the purchasing group alone is getting displayed. But this has limitations, during direct pruchaser order creation, the default attributes are that of the user and not of the purchasing group.

Hope I had conveyed the issue, pls help me on the solutioning part..

Regards

harish

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi harish,

Below is my understanding for your questions:

1 How to assign one purchaser to multile purchaser groups?

The purchasing function(Like sourcing,PO/Contract) is related with purchaser's authorization(PFCG) and PPOMA attribute(Attribute and Extended Atrribute) . So I think you did the right customzing that just assigning the purchaser to any one of purchase group and controlling his reposibility by authorization and user attribute.

2 How to adapt the PO default data by the attribute from purchase group instead of from user?

Unfortunately, PO default data should follow user's attribute(if creating with no refer to SC) or related SC(if creating with refer to SC) . I think you have to implement PO change Badi to accomplish your requriment.

[harishsarathy29 · Accepted solution]

Hi Mei,

Thanks for the answers,

As you say, I think we need to have doc change badi implemented for PO to determine the right attributes.

But the point is, if the same user happens to be a purchaser of two P.Organizations

say germany and US, the attributes right from currency till locations and everything vary.

For this I thought of creating 2 additionals positions apart from the base position of the user and use "Is purchaser of" attribute to assign those positions under the respective purchasing organization.

Pls confirm If my thinking and approach are the right , as I am not too sure about it.

And why SAP SRM has not provided the functionailty as standard as these sought of scenario's are so common.

Regards

Harish

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Harish ,

I'm afraid that your idea won't work. The default value of PO is carried out after user select the document type. There is no screen for user to select the purchase org or purchase group before that. Furtheremore, I remember the default value is related to the contact person attribute instead of position attribute(I have no testing system to verify, you'd better have a try).

By the way, I think SAP design is that most default value of PO should from SC and supplier, just like ECC.