You can create an allocation table referencing a purchase order. You may have to do this if you only discover that the goods are to be split up once you have created the purchase order, or if the recipients and the quantities are not known at the time when you create a purchase order.

You can only reference order items flagged as being relevant to a stock split (the Allocation table relevant indicator in the additional item data).

When you create an allocation table, you can select purchase orders using a number of criteria:

• Purchase order number
• Vendor
• Person who created the purchase order
• Receiving site
• Article or merchandise category (any hierarchy level)
• Type of purchase order (vendor order or warehouse order)

You can only refer once to an order item when creating an allocation table item. First you select items from one or more purchase orders. The system then converts the order item to an allocation table item and all you have to do is enter the data specific to the allocation table.

You can enter a unit of measure that differs from the unit of measure entered in the purchase order. If a conversion rule has been defined for the units of measure in the article master, the system automatically converts the quantity to the new unit of measure.

No vendor purchase order has to be created as a follow-on document for an allocation table item created in this way. Consequently, you can only use those allocation table item categories that do not allow purchase orders to be created as follow-on documents. Since goods are to be delivered from a vendor to a distribution center and then to the recipients, the system stores merchandise distribution data for the allocation table items.

Certain data from the purchase order is set by the system in the allocation table and cannot be changed. This includes the article, vendor and distribution center numbers (the DC number is the same as the receiving site in the purchase order).