We are having an issue where the account assignment is not selected when the PO is created. It is selected when a goods receipt is made. Based on this, when we do our extract for our data warehouse, the account assignment field is <blank> and we are not retrieving it. Because it is selected when a goods receipt is made, we could capture the value at the invoice level. However, we are not sure if we want to do this. We have been told that the account assignment is not always known to the use when they create the PO and that is why they do not select it. Is this a best practice or process issue?
What we would like to do is determine (for best practices) is when the account assignment should be made: In the PO or when a goods receipt is made. We need to verify we don't have a process issue by doing it through the Goods Reciept.
Any answers and/or thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,