Purchaser Log in the cockpit but without BW system

Question

hello All
I want to track the purchaser foot prints in the cart in the sourcing cockpit arena.
for eg. in the cockpit purchaser what he enetered . when / what action he did.
for eg . in the cockpit , i have a sc with product category STATIONARY in the cockpit as a purchaser he taken the sc in to work area and purchaser dont use propose a source of supply for searching a contracts since i ahve many contarcts . but purchaser manually eantered  a different contract manually ( but that contract has a different product category PENCILS ) and purchaser created a PO with PENCILS contract rather than STATIONARY .
why SRM system not validating product category of SC and Contarct manually entered by a Purchaser
SRM should validate whether this contract is applicable for this sc material group or not.
now PO created w.r.t PENCILS contract.
I wanted to extract a report what buyer entered because there is no log contract in the BBP_PD .
br
muthu

Answer 1

Hi Muthu,
Once the data is copied to PO  from SC (from Cockpit) while creating a PO.
If buyer / purchaser can edit the copied data in PO and If he changes the product category in the PO other than SC.
As per the SAP SRM Standard Functionality
1) System always over rides buyer edited data over copied data  in the PO ( I Mean priority for purchaser edited data). This is logical also. because, the SC creator may not have complete knowledge on the Prodcut category and purchase data like Purchaser / Buyer has.
2) System always check the prodcut category used in PO with the Prodcut category used in Contract. Not with the Contaract Prodcut  Category V/S Shopping cart Prodcut Category.
Hope this clears your querry.
Thanks
Girisha