Materials Management: Procure to Pay

Technical Data
Technical Name of Business Function	LOG_MM_CI_2
Type of Business Function	Enterprise Business Function
Available From	SAP Enhancement Package 3 for SAP ERP 6.0
Technical Usage	Central Applications
Application Component	Materials Management Purchasing (MM-PUR)
Directly dependent business function requiring activation in addition	Not relevant

This business function enables you to make your purchasing processes clearer and more efficient. Personalized worklists and a user-friendly user interface make it easier to process and track all purchasing processes. You can easily adapt the user interface to suit your requirements. This business function enables you to automate the transactions of the entire procurement process. All of this reduces the total cost of ownership, because you need to spend less on user training.

Prerequisites

You have installed the following components as of the version given:

Type of component	Component	Is only used for the following functions
Software Component	SAP_APPL 603
Business Intelligence Content	SAP BW BI Content 7.0.2 Add-On
Portal content	As of Business Package for Buyer 1.3

You have implemented Basis note 1089724.

You must make the following Customizing settings:

For Business Package for Buyer, under Materials Management Purchasing Portal
For the BAdI "Change Price, Pricing Unit, Currency of Purchase Requisition Item", under Materials Management Purchasing Business Add-Ins for Purchasing BAdI: Change Price, Pricing Unit, Currency of Purchase Requisition Item

Features

In the Buyer portal role, the descriptions of the following work centers have changed:

Old Name	New Name
Transaction processing	Purchasing Documents
Vendor information	Master Data for Vendors
Information on material	Master Data for Materials
Services procurement	Master Data for Services

New features are available in the following work centers:

Work center	New feature
Service entry (new)	You can enter planned and unplanned services. You can process service entry sheets.
Goods receipt (new)	You can enter and process goods receipts. Directly from a list of purchasing documents for which you are expecting goods receipts, you can create the goods receipt document. From a list of goods receipt documents, you can trigger downstream activities such as subsequent deliveries, return deliveries, and the creation of invoices. You can monitor the progress and status of all transactions.
Purchasing documents (enhanced)	You can enter and process all procurement transactions, such as purchase requisitions, purchase orders, contracts, scheduling agreements, and requests for quotation. You can monitor the progress and status of all transactions. You can monitor critical dates, such as the expiry of contracts, and trigger subsequent actions. You can monitor unusual events, such as stopped purchase orders, and trigger subsequent actions.
Invoice (new)	You can enter and process invoice documents. Directly from a list of purchasing documents for settlement, you can create invoice documents. From a list of invoice documents, you can trigger downstream activities such as invoice release. You can monitor the progress and status of all transactions.
Master data for vendors (enhanced)	You can create and process vendor master data. From a list of vendors, you can display a list of sources of supply and start data analyses for individual vendors. Integrated analytics enables you to monitor all transactions that reference vendors.
Master data for materials (enhanced)	You can create and process material master data. You can display info records and create new info records From a list of materials, you can display a list of sources of supply, material stocks, and stock requirements, and you can display and change new material master data. Integrated analytics enables you to analyze open material purchase order values by product or price trend.
Master data for services (enhanced)	You can create service master data, model services specifications, and standard service catalogs. From a list of services, you can display a list of sources of supply.

In addition to the new features in the work centers, the following new or changed applications are available.

Document tracing (enhanced)

This gives you a quick overview of the document chains in a procure-to-pay process. With any document in the process chain (for example, a goods receipt document), you can launch document tracing to display an overview of all preceding documents and follow-on documents. You can navigate directly into individual documents from the application.

Collective processing of purchase requisitions (new)

The application Collective Processing of Purchase Requisitions is a new Web Dynpro-based application that essentially covers the scope of functions in the back-end transaction Assign and Process Purchase Requisition (ME57). The following functions are available:

Assign sources of supply to purchase requisitions. This involves assigning sources of supply to individual requisition items.
Further Processing of Purchase Requisitions via the Assignment List. This involves the manual creation of purchase orders or delivery schedule lines from a list of requisitions with assigned sources.
Assign and process purchase requisitions. This involves assigning sources to listed purchase requisitions and creating requests for quotation, purchase orders, and delivery schedule lines. (This function is a combination of Assign Purchase Requisitions and Further Processing of Purchase Requisitions via the Assignment List. You can also change order quantities and delivery dates.)
Create purchase orders from requisitions automatically. This involves having the system generate purchase orders automatically from a list of purchase requisitions with assigned sources of supply (see Automatic Generation of Purchase Orders from Requisitions.)
Create a bid invitation from a purchase requisition.
Send purchase requisitions to an external sourcing application (for example, SAP SRM).

Creation and processing of purchase requisitions (new)

The application Creation and Processing of Purchase Requisitions is a new Web Dynpro-based application. The following functions are available:

Create purchase requisition with master record
Create purchase requisition without master record
Create purchase requisition using the referencing technique

Creation and processing of scheduling agreement releases (new)

The application Creation and Processing of Scheduling Agreement Releases is a new Web Dynpro-based application. You can create and process scheduling agreement releases.

Service map (enhanced)

You can use the service map to navigate directly to all services and work centers. This also includes the new services and work centers.

Business Add-In "Change Price, Price Unit, Currency of Purchase Requisition Item"

Business Add-In (BAdI) Change Price, Pricing Unit, Currency of Purchase Requisition Item (BADI_ME_PR_PRICE_CUST) is also available for purchase requisition items. You can use this BAdI to change the price, pricing unit, and currency in certain purchase requisitions. You can use this BAdI for the following purchase requisitions:

Purchase requisitions from Advanced Planner and Optimizer (SAP APO)
Purchase requisitions that you can process using the following BAPIs:
- BAPI_REQUISITION_CREATE
- BAPI_REQUISITION_CHANGE
- BAPI_REQUISITION_DELETE

New Reports for Archiving Invoice Verification Documents

The new archiving programs Write (RM08RW47) and Delete (RM08RD47) are available for archiving object MM_REBEL.