Entering content frameProcess documentation Requirements Determination Procedure in Investment Buying Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Purpose

The system uses the requirements determination function to find out which articles can be considered for investment buying during a particular period.

Process Flow

You can calculate requirements in two ways:

Usually the system has to process a large amount of data, making background processing the better option. You define how often the report is run, for example daily. You have various options for narrowing down and controlling your selection.

It only makes sense to run the report online if you narrow down the data to be processed to an absolute minimum. You would do this, for example, to determine requirements for an individual article.

Requirements are determined and follow-on documents generated directly afterwards in the following sequence:

  1. Program RMEBEIN4 determines all relevant condition changes for the desired period and generates condition change pointers.
  2. The system uses the condition change pointers to check whether any relevant purchase price conditions have changed.
  3. If any relevant purchase price conditions are found, the system determines the order price on the date of the change for the articles concerned and calculates the return on investment to decide whether forward-buying would make economic sense.
  4. If forward-buying makes sense, the system generates follow-on documents in line with the control parameters.

You have the following control options:

You can narrow down the amount of data analyzed by entering selection values, such as a particular vendor, article or site.

You can control which type of follow-on document is generated and whether the vendor with the most favorable conditions is always selected.

Results

The requirements determination run results in a log being generated which you can analyze. The analysis shows how the stock situation will develop in the weeks and months to come if you make use of forward-buying and helps you decide whether buying would be a good investment.

 

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