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All items of an external purchasing document, that is, request for quotation, purchase order, contract, or scheduling
agreement, belong to a purchasing organization.
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The purchasing organization is the highest level of aggregation (after the organizational unit "client") for purchasing
statistics.
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The purchasing organization serves as the selection criterion for lists of all purchasing documents.
Possible organizational forms
You can organize your purchasing function in the following ways:
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Corporate-group-wide purchasing
Company-specific purchasing
Plant-specific purchasing
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All of these forms can co-exist within a single client.
Corporate-group-wide purchasing:
A purchasing organization is responsible for the purchasing activities of different company codes. In this case, you
do not
assign a company code to the purchasing organization
, but specify the company code concerned for each individual purchasing
transaction. You assign plants from different company codes to the purchasing organization.
Company-specific purchasing:
A purchasing organization is responsible for the purchasing activities of just one company code.
In this case, you assign a company code to the purchasing organization. The purchasing organization may procure only for
this company code. You assign only plants of the company code concerned to the purchasing organization.
Plant-specific purchasing:
A purchasing organization is responsible for the purchasing activities of one plant.
In this case, you assign the plant and the company code of the plant to the purchasing organization. The purchasing organization
may procure for this plant only.
Note
If you wish to work with a mixture of the above organizational forms, the reference purchasing organization is of significance
to you.
It is possible to allow one purchasing organization to access the contracts and conditions of another - a so-called reference
purchasing organization. This makes it possible for advantageous terms negotiated by one purchasing organization to also
be used by other purchasing organizations.
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