Use
In addition to the purchasing data or partners that have been created for a purchasing organization, you can enter different data or partners in the vendor master record for a certain plant or vendor sub-range.
Procedure
If, in the retail industry for example, you wish to work with different data for certain sites (=plants) or vendor sub-ranges, proceed as follows:
The Diff. data button is only offered if an account group allows data retention at vendor sub-range and/or site level (e.g., in the standard system, account group 0001 for vendors).
If so, enter the desired
The relevant screen appears. Enter the different data.
Select the desired data retention level and choose Purchasing or Partners to enter different purchasing data or partners. The relevant screen appears. Enter the different data.
Choose to create different data for other data retention levels.
Result
If you enter a vendor sub-range on the initial screen for purchasing documents, for example, the system will offer you not the vendor data stored at purchasing organization level but the more specific data stored for the vendor sub-range.
In searching for and outputting the data, the system proceeds in the following sequence:
The system initially checks to see whether data exists at the most specific level. If it fails to find any data at this level, it searches at the next-higher (more general) level.
This means:
For more information on the vendor sub-range, refer to the section
Vendor Sub-Range.For more information on partner roles, refer to the section
Partner Roles in Purchasing.