Service Procurement in SRM

Service Procurement is much more complex than Material. SRM supports both Material and Services. In this post we will see the how Service Procurement is handled in SRM

Purchasing Org and Purchasing Group in SRM

Purchasing Group

Purchasing group in SRM is linked with ECC/MM System. We link Purchasing group and purchasing org from org sturucture

Steps that we follow to config purchasing group and purchasing org from R/3

1.       Go to PPOCA_BBP and create a Root node

2.       Right click on the “New Organization Unit” and click on Create , to create a new org unit

3.       Select “Is line supervisor of Organization unit”

4.       Go to  Function tab of the newly created org unit

5.       Clcik on  “Purch Organization” and select the Purchasing Org and select R/3 system from the drop down .

6.       Once Purchasing Org is maintained we need to maintain purchasing group, The procedure is same create a new Org unit and go to Function tab and now Purhchasing group is active

7.       Now click on Purchasing group and assign the purchasing group and the R/3 System

8.       Once this is done then purchasing org and group is maintained.

9.       Once the purchasing group is maintained we need to maintain Responsibility tab as well

10.   Here the responsible product category and the “Organizational Responsibility” should be maintained

SRM G/L Account Determination.

I have seen people searching for how G/L account is getting determined in SRM. So thought of explaining this to users.

It's very simple. If you see the config

SRM Server->Cross Application Basic Settings->Account Assignment-> G/l Account Determination for product category.

Basically G/L is determined from this Configuration. So depend upon the product category G/L Account will be displayed on the portal.

For example:

Product category              G/L Account
P12345                              5001234

So when ever user selects "P12345" as product catetegory the appropriate G/L account will be picked up by the system and displayed on portal.