Hiya all,
Thank you for the responses to date. I now have a firm view on what is now required, so have attempted to describe the scenario again and my questions.
The scenario in its most simplistic description is that we have a global purchasing organisation that will be responsibe for raising Purchase Orders on behalf of many plants that sit across multiple countries. The global org is will have in its remit many global vendor agreements that would serve all plants (global agreements will provide better pricing), howver, it will be the global purch org that will have the relationship with the vendor and not the end plant, i.e. the end plant will not have any commecial dealings with the global vendor. The plants will be in many countries and assigned to there own company codes, as per SAP standard. In addition to global purchasing, the plant can also buy from local suppliers via MRP @ plant level.
My questions are:
1. Technically, if the plant needs to buy 100 boxes of stock that can be sourced via a global supplier (e.g. outline agreement in place), how would the plant commuicate this demand over to the global purchase org, so that global org is able to raise a PO on behalf of the plant? Would the global purchase org need to run its own MRP (assuming that we can setup a plant within global purch org assignment company code,for planning purposes) so that it can group purchasing demand from many plants?
2. I would be expecting the plants to run MRP, so that they can either get stock from local suppliers, from other plants (plant to plant STO). With this being the case, can any MRP runs at plant level help with get the demand across to the global purch org, as per above point?
3. Assuming that the global purch org raise a PO with the global supplier, i would expect a alternative ship-to address (plant address to be used so that global purch org do not receive goods) and for the supplier to selttle invoice with the global purchase org and not plant. Is it therefore best that the global purchase org (which has own company code) then raisaes a fresh sales order to settle with the plant? Can any of this be done automatically?
Thanking in advance for your help.
Pooja Kaur