SCs split into multiple POs, duplicate POs and PO items in reverse c/ to SC

Question

Hi,
  We are on SRM Server 550 SP10 ECS. We are facing the following situations intermittently in Prod. We are unable to simulate the same situation in Dev or Q environment. Again this does not happen for every SC it happens atleast once or twice in a day with a volume of few hundred shopping carts.
1) SC gets split into as many POs as SC Items. Let us say SC has 4 items, each item is created in one PO so we will have 4 POs w/ one item per PO in this example.
2) PO gets duplicated. Let us say SC has two items. Then two POs are created with identical SC items referencing the same SC
3) PO items are either jumbled or reversed in comparison to SC. Let us say in a SC you have 3 items in SC then the PO will contain items in say 3 ,2 , 1 order or 2, 3 1 order.
These POs are automaticaly created after Approval (no sourcing cockpit). The vendor, Purchasing Org, Document Type etc is same for all items in SC.
Anothe question: Once the approval of the SC happens in Workflow, the PO is automatically created via BAPI? or some job? Can anybody clarify the process that takes place from the Approval to PO creation (assuming the SC does not go to SOCO).
Thanks

Answer 1

Hi
Which R/3 and SRM support pqack versions are you using ?
Following is the criteria which is used to split POs
For Backend Purchase Orders
Company Code
Purchasing Org
Purchasing Group
Document Type
Vendor
Subtype (Direct/Hierarchy)
FI Logical System
Logical System from where an External Requirement comes
For Local Purchase Orders additional criteria is used to split POs:
Delivery Address (for higher releases)
Procument Card Number
Procurement Card Company
Please Check the Implementation of BADI BBP_SC_TRANSFER_BE (Method GROUP_PO) for any Customer Added Splitting Criteria. Please look at SAP documenatation of the Business Add-In BBP_SC_TRANSFER_BE, its Method GROUP_RQ and GROUP_PO. You can use to overwrite the standard and group SC items based on custom rules to create split the PO or RQ in EBP.
P.S. As soon as the purchaser assigns different SOS in the SC, you'll have different POs created.
Meanwhile, please go through the following pointers / SAP OSS Notes as well ->
Note 768164 - Multiple SCs via SoCo are processed incorrectly
Note 1057530 - BBPSC02: Incorrect PO split when SC contains direct material
Note 861889 - Limitations on limit and service PO's in case of ECS
You order a shopping cart with couple of items with same data (such as vendor etc). One of the item is a direct material. When you order the cart, the PO split criteria is creating multiple POs instead of a single PO.
Re: Incorrect PO Split in SoCo?  (which FM should I debug ?) :-(
Re: S.Cart creates Split PO, One S.Cart creates multiple PO's for each SC item
How to split shopping cart qty to create two PO
Re: PO split  in  sourcing cockpit   ?      :-(
Split PO in SRM
Re: Creating single PO from multiple SC
SC gets split into one PO per Line even when the vendor is the same.
Hope this will help. Do let me know.
Regards
- Atul