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2187496 - Purchasing UoM from Product Master Not Copied to Purchase Request

Symptom

You have maintained Purchasing Uom in product master as XXX however your purchase request is created with Uom YYY.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Purchase Request and Order work center.
  2. Choose Purchase Request view.
  3. Choose All Purchase Requests.
  4. Search for your purchase request and you will notice it is created with Uom YYY.

Cause

Uom XXX maintained in product master is applicable only to supplier facing document like purchase order, shopping cart, RFQ, Contract and also in agreed list price with supplier.

NOTE  : Purchase request by default will contain the Planning Uom if it created with source Planning Proposal and Purchasing Uom if is created with source Shopping Cart.

Resolution

This is the standard system behavior and system behaves as designed.

Keywords

KBA , purchasing uom , purchase request , SRD-SRM-PRO , Purchase Requests and Orders , How To

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions