Creating a Subcontract Order 

  1. Call up the transaction as follows:

    2. Menu Path

    Logistics ® Materials Management ® Purchasing ® Purchase Order ® Create ® Vendor/Supplying Plant Known

    Transaction Code

    ME21N

  2. Enter the following data:
    3.

    Field

    Data

    Standard PO

    Vendor

    1111

    Document date

    Today’s date

  3. Choose .
  4. To open the item header area, choose Header.
  5. On the Org. data tab page in the header data area, use the F4 input help to enter the following data:
    6.

    Field

    Data

    Purchasing org.

    IDES Germany

    Purchasing group

    Harnisch, H.

    Company code

    IDES AG

  6. To open the item overview area, choose Item overview.
  7. Enter the following data:
    8.

    Field

    Data

    I (Item category)

    L

    Material

    101-100

    PO quantity

    100

    Delivery date

    Today’s date + 1 month

    Net price

    15

    Plant

    1000

    Storage location

    0001

  8. Choose .

    9. It is possible that the material already has an info record, which overwrites the amount you have just entered.

  9. To open the item detail area, choose Item detail.
  10. Select your item on the Delivery schedule tab page.
  11. Choose .

    12. On the Processing Components: Component Overview screen, you see a list of material components (defined by bill of materials) and the quantities required to fulfill the order.

    You can check if there is enough material provided available. Select the desired item. Choose . Then choose AvailCheck.

    On the Confirmation Proposal screen you can see the quantity required (open quantity) and the confirmed quantity. If available stocks have been used up, you will have to replenish them. To do replenish the stocks, you need to carry out the process Purchase Order Entry and Follow-On Functions. Make sure that you replenish the correct materials. For this reason, you should note the relevant material number and the requirement quantity you need to replenish.

    To return to the Process Component XXX-XXX; Storage Location Item screen, choose Continue. To check the stocks for the other materials, choose and carry out the usage check.

    If the system questions whether you can keep the delivery date, choose .

  12. Choose .
  13. Choose .

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

  14. Choose until the overview tree appears.