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Restricting procurement categories to specific legal entities

Posted on by 3,005

To my understanding the procurement hierarchy is shared across legal entities and so are the procurement categories within the hierarchy.

I know its possible to inactivate  category but that is across all legal entities. I could remove related ledger posting setup so posting cant be done even if category is selectable, but this is not so nice....

But how would you do if certain categories should only be available in specific legal entities ?

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  • Community Member Profile Picture
    Community Member Microsoft Employee on at
    RE: Restricting procurement categories to specific legal entities
    Hi,
    Do you know if there are possible to restrict access to retail hierarchy users of a legal entity.
    For example give authorize launched products in one category belongs to a company , but continue to sell products of another entity without being able to change the hierarchy.

    Merci,

  • André Arnaud de Calavon Profile Picture
    André Arnaud de Cal... 291,219 Super User 2024 Season 2 on at
    RE: Restricting procurement categories to specific legal entities

    Hi Daxer,

    The question did not mention you want to restrict the purchase orders. The purchasing policies are restricting the categories on the requisitions only as far as I have seen.

    So the XDS or another customization would be your solution now.

  • Daxer Persson Profile Picture
    Daxer Persson 3,005 on at
    RE: Restricting procurement categories to specific legal entities

    Hi André

    I want to restrict categories directly on purchase orders (not stated at first). Not on requisitions. And to my knowledge the purchasing policies are (only) for purchase requisitions.

    I want to use standard as much as possible, so XDS is not (yet) an option, then.

  • Daxer Persson Profile Picture
    Daxer Persson 3,005 on at
    RE: Restricting procurement categories to specific legal entities

    Hi Baber

    No, I haven't thought about XDS policies. Wouldn't have thought this relevant for restricting categories (it's not user related restrictions).

  • André Arnaud de Calavon Profile Picture
    André Arnaud de Cal... 291,219 Super User 2024 Season 2 on at
    RE: Restricting procurement categories to specific legal entities

    Hi Daxer,

    You can create multiple purchasing policies. You can setup one for allowing some companies to access certain categories and some not.

    This would require some more maintenance on the policies. Compare this option with the XDS option provided by Baber and look which would feels better. XDS requires a customization and needs to be reviewed during upgrades (quite easy for XDS if you only use new objects).

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    syed baber Profile Picture
    syed baber 11,627 on at
    RE: Restricting procurement categories to specific legal entities

    Hi Daxer,

    Have you thought of using the Extensible data security framework? I think the scenario you have mentioned above could be achievable by using XDS policies. Below is the link to white paper:

    technet.microsoft.com/.../hh272862.aspx

    Please have a look and let me know if you have further queries.

    Thanks,

    Baber.

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