Purchasing organization types:
A purchasing organization is a level of an organization that talks with sellers about how to buy things for one or more plants. It has a formal obligation to finish buying contracts. A key for a buyer or group of buyers who are in charge of certain buying tasks is a “purchasing group.”
- Centralized Purchasing
- Corporate Group-wide purchasing
- Company-specific Purchasing
- Distributed Purchasing
Purchasing Organization Can be assigned to
- Several company Codes
- One Company code
- One or More Plants
Cross – Company Code Purchasing OrganizationIf you want to organize purchasing on a cross-company-code basis, you cannot assign a company code to the purchasing organization in customizing. When you create a purchaseorder, for example, the system asks you to enter the company code for which you want toprocure the material.
Scheduling Agreements
In the system, scheduling agreements are established and kept track of as documents. Based on business needs, these papers can be put into different types of documents. First, in customizing, you need to describe document types and their attributes.
Allowed Item Categories
Maintain Release Creation Profile
A release creation profile is used to figure out how often releases (types of delivery schedule) are made and sent to the vendor based on a scheduling agreement. This also controls how often the releases are made, how the scheduled amounts are added up starting the day after the release is made, and how a tolerance check is set up.
The following criteria also can be set up in the profile:
- Aggregation and release horizon: If and how delivery schedules are to be aggregated with the release creation
- Release creation periodicity: The frequency with which SA releases are generated
- Tolerance profile: For releases that need to be generated because of changed delivery schedules, a tolerance check is carried out
- Last goods receipts: If and how last inbound deliveries and goods receipts are determined and outputted during the release creation
- Internet release: If, during the release creation, Internet releases are to be generated
- Printing with smart forms: Which additional information in SA releases is outputted if you use the print form ISAUTO_ESCR_FRC_JIT, based on smart forms
- Criteria for dynamic stopping: On the basis of which criteria SA releases are subject to dynamic stopping
