Assigning Materials to a Network Manually

Prerequisites

You are on the component overview for the activity.

Procedure

  1. Enter the material, required quantity, unit of measure, item category and choose Enter .

Depending on the settings in the material master and the assignments of the network or activity, a dialog box may appear in which you enter:

  • If the material is managed in different stocks, the stock type (see Managing Stocks of Material Components )

  • If the prerequisites to do so are met, you can generate preliminary requirements (see Advance Procurement )

  • If the component are directly procured, you can create a third-party order. In this case the material is delivered directly from the vendor to the customer.

  1. Enter the necessary data for all the material components.

  2. On the General Data screen you can view the reservation number as well as the reserved quantity (required quantity). If you align the requirements to the start or finish date of the activity, you can enter an offset (see Requirements Date ).

    In the case of material with item category L, for which a reservation is created, you can see the number of the reservation on the General data detail screen.

    For material that is procured directly, you can see information about whether a purchase requisition has been created in the Purchasing data detail screen, if requirements have been activated . You can go to the purchase requisition by choosing Purch. Req. . You can plan dates and values for payments by choosing Invoicing plan .

  3. If required, assign additional materials and enter the data for the material.

  4. Return to the component overview.

  5. To check material availability, choose Start of the navigation path Component Next navigation step Check availability. End of the navigation path

  6. Save the network.