Question:
Dear all,
we have the following setup. One central maintenance planning plant (1000) is responsible for five plants (1000; 1100; 1200; 1300; 1400). As the five plants represent individual contractors, each of them has just one purchasing organization (plant 1000 to PO 1000; plant 1100 to PO 1100 and so on) assigned to.
When entering non stock materials in the components views during the work order creation process, the system generates an error message quoting that the purchasing organization entered is not assigned to the planning plant, which should not be, because the purchasing organization is only responsible for the receiving plant. Entering of stock materials (materials with a master record) does not cause any error and work fine under the same setup.
Did anyone encountered the same error and can tell me, if it is a SAP bug or do we have to assign the purchasing organization to the planning plant as well? Which I think should not be necessary, as the planning plant does play any role during the purchasing process.
Thanks for your help!
Answer:
It's not bugs from SAP. If you create non stock item in MO, system automatically create PR and need to fulfill 'Purhasing Organization'. Planning plant represent plant which responsilbe to maintain the equipment, if you create non stock item, it's mean you buy a material. Since MO is created under planning plant, so you should assign Purc. Orghanization under the same plant.
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It's not bugs from SAP. If you create non stock item in MO, system automatically create PR and need to fulfill 'Purhasing Organization'. Planning plant represent plant which responsilbe to maintain the equipment, if you create non stock item, it's mean you buy a material. Since MO is created under planning plant, so you should assign Purc. Orghanization under the same plant.
Hi !
Thanks for your reply! Procurement of non-stock material is only an exception for teh case that the maintainer needs a material, which is not on stock; mainly low value materials so we don't have an equipemnt assigned to it. The MO is created under the palnning plant but the responsible plant for procurement should be the receiving plant which is NOT the planning in most cases.
Can you explain me the role of the planning plant during procurement? So far I understand SAP, the planning palnt does not appear in teh PR at all except for teh case that it will be the receiving as well.
I know that assigning the purchase organizations to the planning plant will solve teh issue. However, I worry that new issues will pop up for authorzation management, which must be extremely strict as their 5 contractors involved, which actually are competitors.
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Why did you create a plant for each "contractor"? Maybe an easier way would be to have one plant (i.e. your own) and have different purchasing agreements/organisations etc for each vendor/contractor.
What are these contractors supplying: labour, materials, services etc?
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Why did you create a plant for each "contractor"? Maybe an easier way would be to have one plant (i.e. your own) and have different purchasing agreements/organisations etc for each vendor/contractor.
What are these contractors supplying: labour, materials, services etc?
Hi ,
we are implementing PM for the new subway in Bkk. The operator wants the system to support up to 5 contractors, which can be 5 different companies. Thus we need 5 plants as each contractor might have different requirements for master data.
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Hi,
From your design it is understood that there is a central maintenance plant and so many performance plants which represents your contractors. The Purchasing organisation should be created under the planning plant 1000. This seems to be the only feasible solution.
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I still do not understand why you need a plant for each contractor???
Please explain the business reasoning behind this decision.
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I still do not understand why you need a plant for each contractor???
Please explain the business reasoning behind this decision.
We need a plant for each contractor as each contractor is responsible for material planning and has its own material valuation. The only way to get away from multiple plants is to create material master records for each contractor instead of central material master data. This of course has a deep impact; e.g. the operator, who hired the contractors, can't get consolidated reports for materials used by several contractors. It will lead to higher material stocks and significantly more material master records, because many materials are used by more then one contractor.
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Another option would have been to have one material with multiple purchasing views. Each contractor could have there own purchasing view. Then using infor records for each contractor/vendor you could have the respective costs. This means that the contractor stock is not valuated in YOUR system.
If the decision to have multiple plants has aready been taken, then all of this is academic!!!
Essentially this is a PM/MM interface issue. I suggest you either discuss this with your MM guys, or try posting this same issue under the MM Forum
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Another option would have been to have one material with multiple purchasing views. Each contractor could have there own purchasing view. Then using infor records for each contractor/vendor you could have the respective costs. This means that the contractor stock is not valuated in YOUR system.
Essentially this is a PM/MM interface issue. I suggest you either discuss this with your MM guys, or try posting this same issue under the MM Forum
This is exactly what we are doing! But in order to have different purchasing views you need different plants as the purchasing data are on plant level.
We need at least 2 plants as the operator has a full customized FI/CO system while the contractors just use PM and MM functions and got thus just a dummy FI/CO system (minimum customization).
BTW I am actually the MM consultant. Regarding PR we just need to specify the ordering plant, which is moy the planning plant. The planning plant is not required for purchasing.
So can you tell why the purchasing organization has to be assigned to the planning plant as well??
For stock materials (materials having a master record) our setup works fine. The system generates PRs for the ordering plant with the correct purchasing organization. No error message regarding to the missing link between purchasing organization and planning plant. Shouldn't SAP generate the same error message in that case? That's why I originally thought that it might be a bug in SAP.