Centralised Purchasing Scenario but decentralised GR and IV.

Question

Hi,
We've a scenario where certain items are procured centrally for all the locations across India. Purchase price, vendor etc. are finalised by Corporate office. Corporate office raise the PO but goods are delivered to various storage locations across India and each location books inventory in their accounts. Quality inspection is also done at receiving location and same location also process the vendor invoice. Payment to the vendor is also made at the location where goods were received.
We're planning to have multiple company codes i.e. Corporate office will be one company code and other units will be company code as well.
I think if we raise a PO and at item level, enter Plant of another company code.. cross company code purchasing scenario can be managed. Does this work and if yes, any specific configuration required.
In summary, the scenario is, Purchase order will be created by one company code (may be header) where as GR and IV shall be done by different company codes. Please suggest how standard SAP works in such cases.
Regards
Vivek

Answer 1

this works pretty well. In customizing you have to take care that you do not assign the purchasing org to a company code, instead you have to assign it to plants to make this happen.
The delivery adress is taken from the plant mentioned in the PO item (or even from the storage location if it has an address), but you have to state in the form to where the vendor has to send the invoice if IV is done decentralized.