As a rule, conditions are negotiated and maintained individually by each purchasing organization. If your system has been set up accordingly, however, you can also access and utilize the conditions that another purchasing organization (the reference purchasing organization) has negotiated, or make available the conditions negotiated by your purchasing organization to other such organizations.

The goal is for advantageous terms negotiated by the reference purchasing organization and stored in the system in the form of conditions and contracts to be made generally available to other predefined purchasing organizations. Expressed in another way, we are talking about working with conditions and contracts on a cross-purchasing-organization basis.

You can make the following settings in Customizing for the enterprise structure:

• The general conditions of a reference purchasing organization can also be used for price determination purposes by other purchasing organizations.

• Several purchasing organizations can access the contracts of a certain reference purchasing organization.