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Purchasing assistants and purchasers can buy products on behalf of other users, for example, their managers. Thus, they can save their managers time that they can use for more strategic tasks. Shopping on behalf of other users can also be advantageous when employees are absent or have not yet started in the company, but need certain products such as PC configuration.

Prerequisites

Shopping on behalf of other users is only possible if the following conditions are met:

  • You use the professional shopping cart.

  • The users for whom purchasing assistants or purchasers can shop have been specified as values for the attribute REQUESTER in the organizational structure. For more information, see the Customizing documentation for SAP Supplier Relationship Management under   SRM Server   Cross-Application Basic Settings   Organizational Management   Change Organizational Plan  .

Procedure

  1. Using the search help, specify the user for whom you want to place an order.

  2. Proceed according to the details in Shopping Cart (Professional).

Note Note

You can only change the user for whom you want to place an order as long as you have not added any items to the shopping cart.

End of the note.

Result

Users for whom the order is placed can take up processing at any stage in the process. They can, for example, create the confirmation and the invoice for the products bought on their behalf.