Multiple PO are creating in Sourcing

Question

Hi SRM Guru's,
Multiple PO's are creating if we done the following steps though the same Vendor,same Purchasing organization, same account assignment
1. Created the shopping cart with three line items
2. In sourcing we added the all three items vai assign to me OR add to work area
3. Select the one item then clicked on purchase order (But we have not processed the PO)
4. Then again back to the Work area then selected the remaining all items once we clicked on Process PO
5. There are three different PO are creating instead of one PO
Please Help on this
Thanks
Shrinivas

Answer 1

PO is splitting based upon the following condition.
1.     Vendor u2013 If the vendor assigned to the 1st line item differs from the rest of the line items u2013 Split PO
2.     Preferred Vendor u2013 If the preferred vendor to the 1st line item differs from the rest of the line items u2013 Split PO
3.     Purchase Organization u2013 If there is a different Organization units between the line items u2013 Split PO
4.     Purchasing Group u2013 If differs between line items u2013 Split PO
5.     Procurement Card Number u2013 Procurement Card used for Sweden u2013 If this differs between line items u2013 Split PO
6.     Procurement Card Company u2013 If procurement card company differs between the line items u2013 Split PO
7.     Ship to Address u2013 If there is any different ship to address in the SC, then Split PO
8.     Address number u2013 If there is a change in the ship to address which will resulted in different address then Split PO
Thank You!!