Central & purchasing (Vendor)

What is the difference between XK01 & MK01?
What are their practical implications?
regards
VS

Hello VS,
As mentioned by Manish,
MK01 is used to create Vendor at Purchasing org. level means with this transaction you maintain the data which is relevelnt to carry out the purchasing activities i.e. PO Currency, Payment terms, Vendor schema for pricing, etc
XK01 is used to create Vendor at Company code level means with this transaction you can maintain data at three levels i.e. General data (client level), Accounting data (Company code level) and Purchasing Data (Pur organization level)
if you create Vendor with MK01 (Pur data) you have to carry out FK01 or XK01 to maintain the Accounting data for Vendor Invoice.
Hope this will help.
Regards
Arif Mansuri
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Hi,
Create a Centralised Purchasing organisation - CPO in SPRO
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Cud neone list out the advantages and disadvantages of having central purchasing organization.
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Examples
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Hi there,
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