In Purchasing you can enter third-party items in purchase requisitions as well as in purchase orders.
Purchase Requisition
When you create a third-party order in SD, the system automatically creates a purchase requisition.
Changing an Automatic Purchase Requisition
If a purchase requisition was created from the sales order, you can only make certain changes to the requisition. You can, for example, change the allocated purchasing group. However, the order quantity and scheduled delivery date can only be changed in the sales order. The system updates the change in the purchase requisition.
You can also determine to which purchase requisition the sales order refers. You can display the account assignments for the requisition item by choosing Item
® Account assignments.Creating a Third-Party Item Manually
If you do not use SD, you can plan a third-party business transaction using a purchase requisition. To enter a purchase requisition with a third-party item manually, proceed as follows:
Purchase Order
A third-party order is usually created referencing a third-party item in a purchase requisition. You can create purchase orders in this way individually or collectively. Both procedures are described in the MM - Purchasing guide.
If you do not use SD and have not entered a purchase requisition, you can also enter a third-party order manually.
Creating a Third-Party Item Manually
To enter a third-party item in a purchase order without an SD order or purchase requisition, proceed as follows:
Setting the Goods Receipt Indicator
The account assignment category X in the Customizing system of Purchasing determines whether a goods receipt can be posted for a third-party item. Here you define whether a goods receipt is possible, not allowed or compulsory.
If a goods receipt is possible, the GR indicator in the purchase order item is changeable. When you enter the purchase order, you decide if a goods receipt is to be posted or not.
Reference to Purchase Requisition
If you enter an order item with reference to a purchase requisition, the vendor's address is copied and cannot be changed.
Special Features when Printing
When issuing the purchase order, if the delivery address is identical for all items, it is printed once in the header. If the items have different delivery addresses, a delivery address is issued for each item.