| # Commingling purchase orders You can commingle purchase orders that have the Created status. To commingle purchase orders, on the appropriate menu of the Purchase Orders (tdpur4100m000) or Purchase Order - Lines (tdpur4100m900) sessions, click Commingle Purchase Orders. As a result, the Commingle Purchase Orders (tdpur4210m000) session starts in which you can enter your selection range. Commingling process Step 1. Header level commingling When you click Commingle in the Commingle Purchase Orders (tdpur4210m000) session, ERP Enterprise arranges the purchase orders by buy-from business partner. The purchase order header fields of each purchase order are compared. If the header fields match, ERP Enterprise initially writes the corresponding lines into one new header. This process is repeated for the next header. If the header fields match, ERP Enterprise copies this header to the previously created header. If the fields do not match, ERP Enterprise creates a new header. This process is repeated for each successive header. Step 2. Line level commingling After comparing the order headers, lines are sorted according to item details. Lines that differ only by their details fields are commingled into the same position, but with a different sequence number. Lines from the same origin and with the same item will have different sequences, because the linked line data is different for the various lines. Prices that you enter on the purchase order are overwritten during the commingling process. If a valid price/discount structure is linked to the order line, for the sum of all the quantities of the different sequence numbers linked to the order line, ERP Enterprise derives the price from the Pricing module. If you have not defined a valid price/discount structure for the order line, ERP Enterprise derives the price from the Item Purchase Data (IPU) module. If you commingle purchase order lines that are linked to a purchase contract, the lines that are linked to the same contract are commingled. ERP Enterprise derives the price for the commingled order line from the contract's active purchase contract price revision. If you have not defined a valid contract price revision, ERP Enterprise derives the price from the Item Purchase Data module. Step 3. Approval After both line and header level commingling is carried out, you must approve the commingled order. Next, ERP Enterprise deletes the original order and the concerned ERP Enterprise modules are updated with the new order number. As a result, the status in the linked order line data of those modules is changed to Approved. Related topics Overview of purchase order commingling Purchase contracts |