Entering Purchase Orders for a Material

Use

If you want to execute a three-level comparison, the first component is the purchase order. Here, you enter as much information as possible regarding the product that you want to purchase. No accounting documents are created in this step. However, you can see the outstanding commitment and your cash flow. Also, although it is not described in this scenario, if you enter an order that is offset against another order or project (as opposed to a material), then the purchase order also appears as a commitment in the cost object. Entering commitments is demonstrated in another process.

Procedure

1. Call up the transaction as follows:

Menu Path	Logistics ® Materials Management ® Purchasing ® Purchase Order ® Create ® Vendor/Supplying Plant Known
Transaction Code	ME21N

2. Enter the following data:

Field	Europe	North America
Vendor	1006	3920

Make sure that Standard PO is selected.

3. Choose .
4. If the item header area does not appear, choose Header.
5. On the Org.data tab page, enter the following data:

Field	Europe	North America
Purchasing org.	1000	3000
Purch. group	001	001
Company code	1000	3000

6. To open the item overview area, choose Item overview.
7. Enter the following data:

Field	Europe	North America
Item number	10	10
Material	V10	V10
PO quantity	100	100
Deliv. date	Today’s date + 20	Today’s date + 20
Currency	EUR	USD
Net price	100,00	100,00
Plnt	1000	3000
Stor. loc.	0001	0001

8. Choose .



The system confirms the posting and assigns a purchase order number. Note this number.

9. Choose
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