SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

2104116 - Purchase Order Approval Routed Wrongly To Purchasing Unit Manager

Symptom

The Purchase Order created by you is routed for approval to your manager instead of Purchasing unit manager even though the work distribution rule for the operation Purchasing is maintained.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the Purchase Requests and Orders Work Center.
  2. Select New Purchase Order link.
  3. Fill in all the mandatory details and choose the button Order.
  4. The status of the Purchase order is changed to In Approval.

Your manager is displayed as approver instead of manager of the purchasing unit maintained in the purchase order.

Cause

The work distribution rule for operational purchasing applies only to purchase orders created automatically from purchase requests. The system determines the responsible purchasing unit based on the purchase request and displays it in the purchase order at the time of creation.

Resolution

Assign the Employee who creates the Purchase Order to the Org Unit. The purchasing unit assigned to the user will be defaulted in the Purchase Order, and the manager of this unit will be the approver.

Keywords

Purchase Order, Approval, Purchasing Unit Manager, Distribution Rule , KBA , purchase order , purchasing unit manager , AP-PRP , Purchase Request Processing , How To

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions