Commitments Management Flow

Purpose

The SAP Purchasing component (MM-PUR) is responsible for the external procurement of materials and services. The system displays the different types of business transaction in Purchasing (on the cost side) on the account assignment objects (such as internal order, cost center). It does this using various commitment categories.

Prerequisites

You must activate Commitments Management before you can use it.

For more information, see Activating Commitment Management .

Process flow

  1. The system uses purchase requisitions to create purchase requisition commitments.

    For more information, see How Purchase Requisition Commitments Are Created .

  2. A purchase order is created from purchase requisitions. This is a result of quotation processing and requests for quotations (RFQs) in purchasing. On the commitment side, purchase order commitments are created from purchase orders. Purchase order commitments reduce each purchase requisition commitment by referencing to a purchase requisition.

    For more information, see How Purchase Order Commitments Are Created .

  3. Purchase order commitments are reduced according to the goods / invoice receipt logic .For more information, see Reducing Purchase Order Commitments to Zero

See also: Example: Individual Purchase Order on an Internal Order .

The example shows

  • How a purchase order commitment is created by a purchase order

  • How the purchase order commitment is reduced

  • How the data is displayed on the account assignment object