A purchasing organization is responsible for procuring materials or services for one or more plants and for negotiating general conditions of purchase with suppliers. The purchasing organization is a required field and assignment for all main purchasing documents. If a plant needs to be able to procure items, it must be assigned to one or more purchasing organizations.
Purchasing organizations can be assigned as one to many, one to one, or even many to one for organization structure areas such as company codes and plants.
The different assignment options
between the company code, plant, and purchasing organization yield the
following categories of a purchasing organization:
●
Plant-specific purchasing organization
●
Cross-plant purchasing organization
● Cross-company
code purchasing organization
Plant-Specific Purchasing
Organization:
In a plant-specific procurement, a
purchasing organization is responsible for procuring materials for a single
plant.
Customization:
Ø
Assign a purchasing organization to a
company code under
Assignment→Materials
Management →Assign Purchase Organization to
Company Code .
Ø
Assign one plant of the company code to
this purchasing organization under
Assignment→Materials
Management→Assign Purchase Organization to Plant .
Cross-Plant Purchasing
Organization:
If a purchasing organization has to
procure materials and services for several plants
belonging to a company code, you can
set up a cross-plant purchasing organization for each company code.
A company performs the following steps
to set up cross-plant purchasing:
1. Assigns a purchasing organization to
the desired company code.
2. Assigns the plants for which a
purchasing organization is responsible.
Cross-Company-Code
Purchasing Organization:
When setting up cross-company-code
purchasing, the purchasing organization must not be assigned to any company
code(s) in Customizing. When we create a purchase order, the system will ask
us to enter the company code for which we want to procure the material.
