SAP Purchase Requisition - 1
This series of article introduces the purchase requisition as an in-house instrument for entering requirements. The creation of purchase requisitions is shown using an example of consumption material with and without a material master record.
Following will also be covered in these articles:
- Use of transaction ME51N for purchase requisitions
- Creating a purchase requisition with items with single and multiple account assignments
- Requesting a material without a material master record
A practical example would be that in any plant maintenance department, you must have sensors and a particular testing instrument. Because this testing instrument is required for only one time, you do not want to create a material master record for it. Now you want to test the use of a purchasing requisition to process the internal requisition of these materials directly for your cost center.
Purchase Requisition in Procurement
In procurement, the internal requisition for materials or services triggers a procurement process. Purchase requisitions are internal documents for asking your Purchasing department to procure a particular quantity of a material or a service for a particular date. A purchase requisition (PReq) can be created directly or indirectly in the SAP R/3 system.
SAP MM Consumption Material Procurement PR
Figure SAP MM Consumption Material Procurement PR
“Direct” means that a purchase requisition is created manually in the department that made the request. Whoever creates the purchase requisition determines which material or service is ordered, and the quantity and date.
“Indirect” means that that purchase requisition from another SAP component is created automatically. Purchase requisitions can be created automatically, as follows:
- in MRP
- with maintenance orders
- with production orders
- with networks
- Purchase requisitions can also come from the SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer (SAP APO) or the SAP Enterprise Buyer (SAP EBP).
SAP MM Purchase Requisitions
Figure SAP MM Purchase Requisitions
When you create a purchase requisition for materials that have a material master record, SAP R/3 transfers data in the material master record to the purchase requisition.В You can convert purchase requisitions into RFQs, purchase orders or outline agreements.
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October 6, 2009
Tags: Account Assignment Catagory, Good Receipt, Inventory Management, Invoice Receipt, Invoice Verification, Material Master Record, Material Master Record Accounting Data, Order Acknowledgement, Purchase Requistion, SAP Master Records, SAP Material Management (MM), SAP MM Posted in: Material Management (MM), SAP Functional Modules
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