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I think that we have to start with the basic organizational structure. The
purchasing organization must itself belong to a company; this could be the
parent company of your international organization or it could be a company
in its own right. The structure must already be defined for both legal and
tax reasons.
If the purchasing organization is defined as a separate legal entity then
you should treat it as a supplier to yourself and you will set up a contract
with the purchasing organization; the purchasing organization will have a
different contract with the suppliers of goods and services that you
receive. In this way you can set up the contract with your purchasing
organization in any currency providing that you have that currency defined in your
configuration. The important issue is that there can be only one currency with
that vendor (the purchasing organization) and that it is up to the
purchasing organization to manage the multi-currency aspect of its purchasing
activities. There is much logic in this arrangement that has the purchasing
organization managing the currencies in so far as this provides a stronger
centralized treasury service and allows the centre to offset currency
fluctuation risk. I would not recommend that the purchasing organization acts as a
treasury function (for control reasons this should be a separate part of
the organization), but the centralization gives many advantages for the
reduction of exchange rate risk.
If your purchasing organization is acting as a central service provider,
then you have to set up your version of the contract with the vendor being
the actual provider of the goods and services. This will allow you to have
the goods or services invoiced in the base currency of the vendor. The
purchasing organization it not a vendor against the contracts in itself so their
are no issues with multi-currencies for a single vendor. The purchasing
organization will in due course charge your company for its services (as an
agent would do), but that is another agreement totally separate from the
contracts of supply. I too have worked for a multinational organisation where
purchasing is centralized and this was the solution adopted.
I realize that this may be a general discussion and does not specifically
answer your point, but I hope that I have helped in the modelling of the
problem and therefore the solution.
Paul Massey
| | | ---------------Original Message---------------
From: Nils Bjarte Aardal
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 2:10 AM
Subject: Cross company code contracts
Hi SAP experts.
We are a international company but use only one purchasing organization. This purc. org is not linked to a company code.
Since we have to assign a contract to a company code, we are not able to use the contract for a plant referring to a company code with another currency. I can't see how the reference purchasing org can solve this.
Thanks in advance. |
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