Vendor with alternative data

Question

Hi all,
I am tring to create a PO using a regular vendor.
The system fails to create purchase orders and suggests using a stock transport order instead.
The error message says:
"Please use a stock transfer document type in this case"
Diagnosis
You wish to create a purchase order or a scheduling agreement for a vendor to whom a supplying plant has been assigned. This corresponds to a stock transport order for a cross-company-code stock transfer, for whose items shipping data will be determined, deliveries and billing documents will be generated and, finally, incoming invoices will be posted (in the standard system, this corresponds to order type NB).
This transaction must involve more than one company code. However, with the data entered this is not the case: the supplying plant that is assigned to the vendor belongs to the same company code as the purchasing organization entered.
what the root cause of the problem is? is any setting in the vendor master that I need to correct?
Many thanks

Answer 1

Please check
Procedure : Choose – XK03 enter the vendor
In the views select” purchasing data “ (ie) check  the box.
In the menu  extras Addl purchasing data
Here the supplying  plant is defined as the vendor ( ie that plant is treated as a Vendor –as the SUPPLYING PLANT )
That is why you are not able to create P.O
G.Ganesh Kumar