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Question

hi all,
how we create a purchasing group and what we have to define in purchasing group and also please tell me what is the relation between purchasing group and purchasing organization............

Answer 1

Hello Vinil,
To create a purchase group pls follow the path:
In Display IMG   -> MM -> Purchasing ->
                                                   Create purchase groups
click on it, and to create you have to go for New Entries
And give the details like (3 char sap code) name, contact information such as phone, extension no, fax, email, etc
Purchase group is a person or group of persons responsible for procurement activities such as dealing with vendors /suppliers for purchasing of different materials or services and also they do the followup with the vendor (once PO is released to the concerned vendor) to get the goods as per the delivery date to the plant.
And Purchase Organization is bunch of Purchase groups and Purchase manger will be heading to it. And the main responsiblity is to do Price Negotiations and finalization of the vendor and issue of PO to vendor all those things are handled by the Purchase organization.
Purchase groups are the part of Purchase organization. In a purchase organization you can have any number of purchase groups, like you can keep them product wise or material or service procurement wise, inorder to simplyfy the procurement process.
In SAP, if you speak, there is no direct relation between P.Groups and P.Org. Because P.Group is an Independent Entity which is No where assigned it in SAP. Whereas the plant is assigned to P.Org.
And also you can see the relation between these two is only at the time of creation of PO, where you can assign the P.Group and P.Org. in the Org.Data (i.e, Header Details of PO creation Screen: ME21N)
Hope it is clear,
Rewards, if it helps,
Regards,
Srin.K