Purchase Order and Order Acknowledgement - 1
The objective of this article is to show the conversion of purchase requisitions into purchase orders. It will also introduces the confirmation categories that can be used for purchase orders. You will also learn how to enter an order acknowledgement for a purchase order item. I will discuss and show the conversion of purchase requisitions into purchase orders, and the entry of confirmations for the purchase order.
Following are the two topic that will be covered in this article:
- Create a purchase order with reference to a purchase requisition with account assignment
- Enter an order acknowledgement for a purchase order
In any company, the material requirements reported internally by the cost center are converted by the purchasing department into concrete procurement proposals or purchase orders. Some of these purchase orders are confirmed by their vendors.
Convert a Purchase Requisition into a Purchase Order
You will see the technique to convert one of the purchase requisitions created by the user department into a purchasing document in Purchasing. The purchasing document can be a purchase order, a contract release order, a scheduling agreement schedule line, or even an RFQ. The following figure shows conversion of the purchase requisition into a purchase order.
SAP MM Consumable Material Procurement: Purchase Order
Figure: SAP MM Consumable Material Procurement: Purchase Order
I will explain different options for converting purchase requisitions into purchase orders. On the topic of “source of supply,” and the specification of a vendor number does not yet enable the conversion of a purchase requisition into a purchase order. There must be a price determined in the system for the vendors and the material. A source of supply does not just mean a vendor, but always a combination of vendor/material/price.
There are different options available in the SAP R/3 for the conversion of a purchase requisition. Before the actual conversion of a purchase requisition item, you can assign a source of supply (info record, outline agreement, or scheduling agreement) to the item.
Sources of supply are assigned in the purchase requisition at item level, not at header level.В You can assign sources of supply to a purchase requisition item in different ways. For example, you can enter a source of supply when creating or changing a purchase requisition item on the Source of supply header. To determine the source of supply, use the automatic supply source
determination.
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November 24, 2009
Tags: SAP MM, SAP MM Purchase Order, SAP RFQ Management Posted in: Material Management (MM), SAP Functional Modules
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