Vendor master is created at what level?

5.Question: Vendor master is created at what level?

Answer: We can create vendor master at Company code level and Purchase organization level.

Company code level: Basic data of vendor and Accounting will be company code data

Purchase Organization level: Basic data of vendor and purchasing data will be maintained in this level.

Example:

if we are creating a PO, then vendor master should contain purchasing data as mandatory.

If we are invoicing any vendor for payment, then accounting view with bank details need to be maintained, without this data invoice will not be paid.

We can have 2 different vendors for this, 1 vendor for purchasing and 1 vendor for accounting.

Scenarios:

If we want to block any vendor for payment purpose, then we can block in FK05

Where accounting data gets blocked and no payment process further, whereas if we want only purchasing block and not finance block then we can achieve in MK05.

Example 1:

Once User has blocked the vendor for purchasing and raised a ticket that he wants to create PO for plant with that block.

Resolution: Even this vendor belongs to same purchase organization, the user cannot create PO with this vendor with any plants.

So, we can request him to block at source list level, so that only that plant with purchase organization will gets blocked and you can create a PO for the same.

Single plant- Sigle vendor-1 Purchase organization= we can block in source list and not in MK05/FK05