Vendor Issue

Question

Dear Friends,
We have Vendor  xyz ltd Delhi HOu2013 Vendor number 100001
This vendor has his branches in Mumbai, pune, nasik, banglore etc. That is same vendor with multiple ordering addresses.
Presently for each branch they have a different vendor number.
Vendor  xyz ltd  Mumbai 100001
Vendor  xyz ltd  Pune 100002
Vendor  xyz ltd Nasik 100003
Vendor  xyz ltd Banglore 100004
This creates confusion with buyers. Secondly one branch of vendor do not accept PO for its another branch hence they reject the PO.
Now my client wants to raise a PO on vendor 100001, client wants to have a option of vendor branches so that the PO goes to the respective branch.
And for this they want to have same vendor number 100001.
My concern.
1-      Vendor can have only one address. Hence their present set up is right.
2-      Is there any way to achieve?
Can this be done.
i.e they maintain different vendor number., Mumbai 100001 , Pune 100002 , Nasik 100003. Define one as the main vendor e.g  xyz ltd Delhi,
Mumbai 100001and, Pune 100002 , Nasik 100003 etc  branches as the partners for ordering address. This when raising PO the ordering address can be pulled through the partner function .
Please give help.

Answer 1

Hi,
You can use Vendor hierarchy functionality and define the Delhi vendor as Parent and others are child vendors. This will really help if Parent vendor is the Invoicing party for all vendors, if not then this option may not be so helpful.
Alternately you can look for any user exit option that will trigger a message at the time of PO creation so that the users are pointed to select the correct vendor based on the delivery location. Setting up vendor hierarchy might help here, but not sure, you can configure and test it.
Ramesh