RE: [sap-log-mm] Naming the buyer in Vendor master
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 | Posted by Rob Pierce (SAP Consultant, QA Testing Lead) on Aug 10 at 10:53 AM |  Mark as helpful |
Original email found: We use the purchasing group as the buyer/commodity
code. We have a few hundred Pgroups and still a small foot print
logistically speaking. We then replicate the Pgroups up to SRM for
contract, bid, quote management through a portal. The Pgroups have been
sufficient to our need, a way to group like materials and like vendors
into a commodity desk to manage procurement. There are a number of
standard reports which we can use however we use BI extensively for the
procurement side of reporting; dashboards, scorecards, cockpits and user
queries.
Rob Pierce
SAP Consultant, SAP Project Support
PACCAR ITD
425.254.6477
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From: PP_novice via sap-log-mm [mailto:sap-log-mm@Groups.ITtoolbox.com]
Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 3:40 AM
To: Rob Pierce
Subject: [sap-log-mm] Naming the buyer in Vendor master
Posted by PP_novice
on Aug 7 at 6:46 AM
I need to decide, whether my customer should use a purchasing group or a
buyer (vendor partner function roles) to name their buyers per each
vendor.
They have hundreds of buyers (still less than 1000) and per one vendor
there's only one buyer assigned. I would like to use partner roles for
this purpose, as I am planning to implement also e-mail communication
methods into the role later on...
However my customer sometimes wants to see purchasing reports with sums
per buyer per material group. I know there's a bunch of SAP standard
reports, which use purchasing group as search term. What other
rationales would you see, using the purchasing group, instead buyer role
in the partner functions, for naming the buyers? The only reason to
maintain this data at the moment is just for reporting nothing else.
__.____._ code. We have a few hundred Pgroups and still a small foot print
logistically speaking. We then replicate the Pgroups up to SRM for
contract, bid, quote management through a portal. The Pgroups have been
sufficient to our need, a way to group like materials and like vendors
into a commodity desk to manage procurement. There are a number of
standard reports which we can use however we use BI extensively for the
procurement side of reporting; dashboards, scorecards, cockpits and user
queries.
Rob Pierce
SAP Consultant, SAP Project Support
PACCAR ITD
425.254.6477
________________________________
From: PP_novice via sap-log-mm [mailto:sap-log-mm@Groups.ITtoolbox.com]
Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 3:40 AM
To: Rob Pierce
Subject: [sap-log-mm] Naming the buyer in Vendor master
Posted by PP_novice
on Aug 7 at 6:46 AM
I need to decide, whether my customer should use a purchasing group or a
buyer (vendor partner function roles) to name their buyers per each
vendor.
They have hundreds of buyers (still less than 1000) and per one vendor
there's only one buyer assigned. I would like to use partner roles for
this purpose, as I am planning to implement also e-mail communication
methods into the role later on...
However my customer sometimes wants to see purchasing reports with sums
per buyer per material group. I know there's a bunch of SAP standard
reports, which use purchasing group as search term. What other
rationales would you see, using the purchasing group, instead buyer role
in the partner functions, for naming the buyers? The only reason to
maintain this data at the moment is just for reporting nothing else.
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