Restrict Material Group Access when creating a PO

Folks-
I have a scenario where in different material groups are created for different levels
Ex:
Machinery - 1500
Machinery-Warehouse 150010
Machinery Warehouse Exteriors 15001010
If I want to restrict the buyer to use only level 3(15001010) of the material groups when creating a PO, how do I do that. Any help or line of though is appreciated.
Cheers,
C

Hi my friend,
I hope that my tip help you..
Try ativate the BADI /ISDFPS/PO_POSTED and inside the method you can creat the roles that you need in order to block for a group of the user's for example. You can check the user thru the authority_check_object and to validate the group of material using the structure existing inside the method of this BADI.
The path for this BADI is Materials Management>Purchasing>Business Add-Ins for Purchasing-->BAdI: Define Follow-On Processing for External Purchasing Documents
Regards,
Marcelo Rodrigues

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