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Legal entity with 2 business units that share the same vendor - posting issue

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We want to move from previous 2 legal entities to just one but share the operations through business units.

each of the business units serves a different purpose, one being global supply the other one  a sales organization. Now, both BU will be working with the same vendor whereby all transactions are direct deliveries.

We encountered that when we leave the BU blank on the vendor master, the posting of the Purchase order invoice fails as the BU is mandatory. We haven't found any way so far other than to either set the one of the two BU onto the vendor master and manually override the BU on Invoice posting or leave it blank all together and manually enter the BU each and every time we post a Purchase invoice.

We are on AX2012 R3 CU9.

(I am have to admit I am not a finance expert so the above description of the issue might be rough :))

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    Ludwig Reinhard Profile Picture
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    Hello Joe Gramann,

    Do you have each business unit setup as separate sites?

    If this is the case you can link your sites to different business units automatically by using the inventory financial dimension link.

    This does not necessitate that you setup a business unit at the vendor master as it defaults based on the site that you select.

    Maybe that would be an option for you?!

    Best regards,

    Ludwig

  • JoeGr Profile Picture
    360 on at

    No, both BUs are within the same Site.

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    guk1964 Profile Picture
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    Set up a Site dimension link to the BU financial dimension.

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    Ludwig Reinhard Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi Joe Gramann,

    You would need a criteria that can help identifying the business unit.

    If this is not the site and if you have nothing else then the only way to get this realized is by manually entering/changing the business unit financial dimension value.

    Best regards,

    Ludwig

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