Updating Info Records (InfoUpdate) 

Use

When creating or changing quotations, scheduling agreements, contracts, and purchase orders, you can use the InfoUpdate field to specify that the info record is to be created or updated.

Activities

If this is the case, the system performs the following actions:

When is which information adopted in the info record?

Situation

InfoUpdate in purchasing doc...

System action

Info record already exists

Quotation

Time-dependent conditions and their supplementary conditions are adopted

 

Scheduling agreement

Is set as last document; order price history is updated

 

Contract

None
(Note: the contract release order is set as last document)

 

Purchase order

Is set as last document; order price history is updated

     

Info record does not exist

Quotation

Time-dependent conditions and their supplementary conditions are adopted

 

Scheduling agreement

Is set as last document; order price history is updated

 

Contract

Time-dependent conditions and their supplementary conditions are adopted

 

Purchase order

Is set as last document; order price history is updated

 

The order price history is updated even if the InfoUpdate indicator is not set.

The values of the InfoUpdate indicator vary according to the type of purchasing document in question.

In quotations, contracts, scheduling agreements, and in the conventional purchase order (transactions ME21, ME22, and ME23), the InfoUpdate indicator can have one of four different values:

' ' The info record is not updated.

'A' If an info record exists at plant level, it is updated. Otherwise an info record at purchasing organization level is updated.

'B' If plant conditions are allowed for the plant, an info record at plant level is updated.

'C' If plant conditions are not necessary for the plant, an info record at purchasing organization level is updated.

 

In the Enjoy purchase order (SAP transactions ME21N, ME22N, and ME23N), the InfoUpdate indicator has only two possible values. Here it determines whether an info record is updated or newly created.

If the indicator is selected, the following cases are possible:

See also:

Time-Dependent Conditions (up to Release 3.1H: Master Conditions)

Time-Independent Conditions (up to Release 3.1H: Document Conditions)