Order Critical Components in Advance 

Prerequisites

You create a purchase order for the vendor. To this end, you select the assigned purchase requisition.

Procedure

  1. Call up the transaction as follows:
    2.

    Menu Path

    Logistics ® Materials Management ® Purchasing ® Purchase Requisition ® Follow-On Functions ® Create Purchase Order ® Via Assignment List

    Transaction Code

    ME58

  2. Enter the following data:
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    Field

    Data

    Purchasing group

    001

    Vendor

    1002

    Plant

    1300

    WBS Element

    E-####-2-2

  3. Choose .
  4. Select the line 1000 NB 1000 and choose Process assignment.
  5. If the system displays the Create Purchase Order: Extension Option dialog ox, choose New Purchase Order.
  6. Choose .

    7. The Create Purchase Order screen appears. In the standard, the middle part of the screen shows explanatory documentation.

  7. To close the documentation, choose .

    8. The left part of the screen now shows a document overview. If it does not, choose Document Overview On. Adapt the screen area as necessary.

    On the right-hand side of the screen, you see the work area for the activity.

  8. Select your purchase requisition in the document overview, then choose .

    9. The system copies the purchase requisition item to the purchase order.

  9. Choose .

The system confirms the posting and displays a purchase order number. Make a note of this number.