Generating Follow-On Documents in the Background 

1. Create a variant:

- Choose Purchasing ® Allocation ® Allocation table ® Create follow-on docs ® Create variants ® Gen. purchase orders if you want to generate purchase orders or Gen. deliveries if you want to generate purchase orders.

- Enter the selection criteria.

- Save the variant.

2. Schedule the variant as a job in the background.

- For example, on the Allocation screen, choose Purchasing ® Allocation ® Allocation table ® Create follow-on docs ® Background processing.