SRM SUS Supplier operating in more countries?

[Former Member]

Hi all.

SRM SUS 7.0

We are implementing SRM SUS, and my question is quite simple: A vendor that in ECC has more than 1 purchasing organization, how can I distinguish among those in SUS so that not all contact persons are receiving the PO?

I would expect to simply use either the purchasing org or company code, but the organizational setup for SUS is so limited, that the EKORG og BUK are not even considered.

Supplier ABC operates in EKORG 1 and 2; with 1 overall SAP vendor number. That's standard. In SUS the supplier is created in the PPOMV_BBP with no respect to BUK, and EKORG is not even a parameter/an attribute you can use while creating the vendor org units. When the supplier is replicated to SUS, it is created in PPOMV_BBP. Then you create a contact person in SUS to let SRM know who to send the PO for this vendor number to. However, the contact person does - again - not take either BUK or EKORG into consideration.

I can only see that if you use SAP ECC with 1 overall vendor number for multiple purchasing organizations, then SUS will not be able to distinguish and send the "New PO in SUS" info to the right contact persons, since there seem to be no organizational setup for SRM SUS...

I hope I am overlooking something simple, so any input is valid!

[Former Member]

Hi,

What you need to understand is whenever PO has to be sent to SUS this can be done based on the vendor number. Hence the PO goes to the contact person you have assigned to the vendor you have replicated.

But you can always create a combination of the vendor and purchasing organization and logical system in mn04 and this combination decides on if PO has to be sent to SUS or no.

Regards

Sam

[Former Member]

Hi Sam.

Thanks for the input. However, what you state is not accurate for our scenario at least. In MN04 we simply control the output conditions in ECC - however, for our MM-SUS implementation given our current ECC/SRM releases, we use XML out from ECC and into SRM again; not regular output conditions.

And my issue is still the following:

Functional scenario:

Supplier called ABC operationg in 2 countries but with 1 overall vendor number

Contact Person 1 created for vendor; this is in pur org 200

Contact Person 2 created for vendor; this is in pur org 300

Contact 1 should only see POs in pur org 200 in SUS; Contact 2 should only see POs in pur org 300 in SUS.

In ECC, this would be vendor ABC and create him in the 2 different pur orgs; no problem. In SUS, however, the vendor master (or BP) does not use the purchasing org in any case. And when creating the contact person in SUS for the overall vendor ABC, there is no org maintenance either. Therefore, all POs from ECC to SUS will be sent to both contact 1 and 2 because SUS does not seem to know how to handle 1 vendor number with multiple purchasing organizations.

This sounds strange to me! Any other input?

Edited by: Solar SCM on Jan 10, 2012 12:05 PM

[Former Member]

Hi,

If you are using xml for output then the control is done using the classification you have maintained for vendor which is usually 010.

Your requirment is not possible with the standard functionality and you will need two different vendor numbers for the same supplier.

Regards

sam

[Former Member]

Thanks, Sam. And yes, I agree - I am controlling the ECC PO output in XML on the vendor classification - and classification is to my knowledge global.

And I believe you are also right, that the behaviour I am asking for is not standard. It just surprises me, that in ECC it is standard SAP to have 1 overall vendor number and then operating out from multiple purchasing organizations - but in SRM SUS, this does not care...

Thanks for the input so far.