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3288642 - Defined Organizational Work Distribution Rules not Working on Purchase Request.

Symptom

You have defined a default responsible purchasing unit for the Operational Purchasing work category under Organizational Work Distribution Rules.
However, you notice that the system does not select the default purchasing unit as expected.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign.

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Select the Purchase Requests and Orders work center.
  2. Go to Purchase Requests view.
  3. Open Purchase Request ABC (ABC represents the Purchase Request ID).
  4. You find the purchasing unit being empty.

Cause

If you check the Business Configuration activity Involved Parties for Purchase Requests and Orders → Involved Parties for Purchase Requests → Party Responsible Purchasing Unit, you will see that the system can only define a default purchasing unit for Purchase Requests that are created automatically (e.g., via MRP, Shopping Cart, or Project Purchase Request).

Resolution

For manually created Purchase Requests, the user must enter the purchasing unit ID manually when creating the request.

See Also

  • Help Document: Involved parties for Purchase Requests
  • KBA: 2338159 - How to Default Purchasing Unit and Buyer Responsible in Purchase Request or purchase order
  • KBA: 2809414 - Tasks 'Escalation: Assign Supplier to Purchase Request' Are Going to Unexpected Persons Responsible

Keywords

Escalation task; Assign Supplier to Purchase Request; Purchasing unit; Purchase request; Involved Parties for Purchase Requests; 采购申请, 采购单位, 未处理任务, 上报, 向采购申请分配供应商, 创建采购订单 , KBA , SRD-SRM-PRO , Purchase Requests and Orders , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions