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Purpose

Tasks can be executed by external companies, for example, if your own workshops:

Note

In the documentation about external processing, only the differences in conditions and process flows compared with internal processing are described.

The following tasks can be processed externally (see Processing Operations Externally):

To do this, you create an order that contains only one operation.

The following forms of processing are available for external processing:

Note

Tasks to be executed regularly which are the same can be combined in a task list (see Working with Task Lists). In this task list, you can use control keys for operations to be processed externally with an individual purchase order, and for operations to be processed externally with service specifications.

Prerequisites

You mark the operations for orders to be processed externally as operations to be processed externally using a corresponding control key.

You create the external company in the vendor master record, which is maintained by the accounting and purchasing departments.

Process Flow

For detailed information about the process flow for order processing in external processing, see:

 

 

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