Transfering items from one Vendor to another vendor.

Question

Dears,
I am a FI consultant.  Here we have a requirement to close a particular vendor and transfer all the items from this vendor to a new vendor.  We dont want to post further items into that vendor. For this,please advise me on the following:
a) whether we can block the vendor for further transactions and at the same time keep this account active till all the open items in the vendor are processed ? viz. can we allow both these scenario at the same time to a vendor account ?
b) How I can take a list of open PRs, POs, GR not invoiced, IRs for which GR not done from the MM side ?
c) How can I transfer all the open PRs, POs, GRs, IRs from the old vendor to a new Vendor ? (I am looking for Tcodes for these)
d) I also want that a payment term defaulted from the Vendor Master record in the transactions like PRs, POs, should not be able to be changed by the user.  Is it possible to make the payment term field in the POs, PRs as display only ?
Since this is very critical for me, please offer your comments.
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Edited by: Jeyakanthan A on Jun 8, 2011 3:20 PM

Answer 1

you can block a venor for a purchasing organisation in MK05, so new purchasing activities cannot be performed.
once all business is done, you can block the vendor at company code level too in FK05.
Purchasing dcoument lists can be pulled per vendor using ME2L transaction.
Based on the selection parameter you can retrieve open POs.
PRs list can be created with ME5A.
How can I transfer all the open PRs, POs, GRs, IRs from the old vendor to a new Vendor ? (I am looking for Tcodes for these)
Usually there is no need to transfer PRs, it is enough to assign a new source if there is a source assignment to the unwanted vendor.  This can be done in ME52N and ME56 and ME57.
Open POs can be deleted (ME22N) and recreated with the new vendor (ME21N).
You should not delete POs which have already a receipt but not yet an invoice, or have an invoice but not yet a GR. If you want delete such POs, then you you should first cancel the receipt/invoice. But this can be very work intensive, as the goods may already been consumed (which requires that you cancel the consummtion first .....)
if a field is open for maintenance is defined in customizing OLME > purchase order > Define Screen Layout at Document Level