Multiple Purchasing organisations

Question

Dear SRM Gurus,
We are on SRM 5.0
Our backend R3 structure is as below:
Plant 1----Company Code 1 -
Purchasing org 1
Plant2 -
Company Code 2 --- Purchasing org 2
We have created both Purchasing organisations in SRM and assigned the same buyer with different purchasing groups to each of the Purchasing orgs.
Based on the location of the shopper, we want the purchasing organisation to default during the PO creation.
Firstly how do we assign the same buyer user to both purch orgs?
Secondly how on PO creation do we get the PO to default to the correct PO org and company code?

Answer 1

Hi Deelan,
for your first question: go and use trx POMA_BBP using "Purchaser Assignment"
view for the PGroup.Have a look into SAP Note 836262 for details.
After following the steps mentioned in the note, you will not find the purchaser´
assigned to the PGroup in PPOMA_BBP itself (where the default view would be
"Staff Assignment" view). The user would be still assigned to the other business
org unit. But in BUB3, when you display the available "Relationship" for the
purchaser's BP number, you would find a new "Is Employee of" relation to the
PGroup (in addition to the business org unit which the user already had). Then
the purchaser should be able to perform purchaser activities according to the role
assignment.
For the second, use BADI Assign Purchasing Groups to derive the right combi in
your case.
Cheers,
Claudia