MM purchasing org/plant
Purchasing organization is not responsible for plant
Purchase requisition or purchase order processing fails because the purchasing organization cannot procure for the selected plant.
Quick answer
- Most likely cause
- Enterprise-structure assignment between purchasing organization and plant is missing.
- Check first
- Plant and purchasing organization on the document.
- First resolution step
- Correct the document organization if the wrong value was used.
Likely root causes
- Enterprise-structure assignment between purchasing organization and plant is missing.
- The wrong purchasing organization or plant was entered.
- A central purchasing organization is expected but not configured for the plant.
What to inspect
- Plant and purchasing organization on the document.
- Enterprise-structure assignment for purchasing organization to plant.
- Document defaults/user parameters that may derive the wrong organization.
Resolution path
- Correct the document organization if the wrong value was used.
- If procurement responsibility is genuinely missing, update enterprise-structure configuration only after impact review.
- Align defaults and source-system mappings.
- Retest source determination and PO creation.
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