In Ordering, you procure merchandise to cover the requirements for your stores, distribution centers and customers. These requirements were either entered manually by you or were determined automatically by the requirements planning, store order, promotion, and sales order functions in the system. The requirements exist in the system either in the form of purchase requisitions or as purchase orders, for which you have to enter details such as the vendor or the delivery date.

You procure the merchandise in one or more steps. You can place a purchase order with an external vendor, your own distribution center or in certain circumstances a store. Stock transfers within your company and return deliveries are handled in purchase orders.

In SAP Retail, purchase orders are generated by Requirements Planning. They are also generated as documents that follow on from store orders or the Replenishment process. They can be entered manually or generated automatically from purchase requisitions.

The purchase orders created can be used as a basis for processing subsequent goods receipts, for Invoice Verification and for Subsequent Settlement.

Ordering includes a number of functions to help you create, optimize, and monitor purchase orders.

• You use purchase requisitions to manually enter requirements. Purchase requisitions can also be created indirectly by other components in R/3.