Purchasing 

Prerequisites

You can specify a plant in the Organizational Levels dialog box before you access the Purchasing screen, but you do not have to do so since not all purchasing data is plant-specific. As a result, the data displayed depends on whether you enter a plant or not.

Features

Plant-Specific Material Statuses

See Material Statuses.

Activities

The following data on the Purchasing screen is also used by other user departments so consult with the other users before making your entries:

If you have specified a plant in the Organizational Levels dialog box, you can maintain the following data on the Foreign Trade: Import Data screen:

By choosing this function, you access a dialog box in which you can enter preference data for each customs area assigned to the country of the plant. On the Foreign Trade: Import Data screen, the system merely displays whether the preference status and vendor declaration status are OK or not.

The preference status is not OK if a negative preference indicator (A, D, or E) is assigned to at least one customs area.

The vendor declaration status is not OK if a negative vendor declaration indicator (A or D) is assigned to at least one customs area.

If you want to copy the data in the Customs Tariff Preference dialog box from the reference material, the Propose field cont. indicator must be set for field RM03M-DMAPE in Customizing for the Material Master in Assign Fields to Field Selection Groups. It is set already in the standard R/3 System.

By choosing this function, you access a dialog box in which, for each material classification, you can assign a grouping in accordance with the legal regulation of the country of the plant.

If you want to copy the data in the Export License dialog box from the reference material, the Propose field cont. indicator must be set for field RM03M-DMAEX in Customizing for the Material Master in Assign Fields to Field Selection Groups. It is set already in the standard R/3 System.