You enter the purchase order for cylinder heads from a vendor in Materials Management. No financial accounting documents are updated here. The purchasing order is important because it is used as a reference for other documents in Materials Management, Financial Accounting, and Controlling .

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	Data
Vendor	1006
Order type	Standard PO

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

Field	Data
Purchasing org.	1000 (IDES Germany)
Purch. group	001 (Dietl. B)
Company code	1000

6. If the item overview area does not appear, choose Item overview.
7. Enter the following data:

Field	Data
Material	V10
PO quantity	1000
Deliv. date	Today’s date +30 days
Net price	100.00
Currency	EUR
Plnt	1000 (Hamburg)
Stor. loc.	0001 (material warehouse)

8. Choose .
9. Note the purchase order number.
10. Choose .