Displaying the Purchase Order and Outputting Messages 

Use

This step is not essential for understanding the process. It is an optional step.

Procedure

  1. Call up the transaction as follows:
    2.

    Menu Path

    From the Purchasing node choose ® Purchase Order ® Display

    Transaction Code

    ME23N, ME9F

  2. Select your item.
  3. To open the item detail area, choose Item detail.
  4. Choose the Services tab page.

    5. The system lists the service lines you copied from the PReq.

  5. Choose until the overview tree appears.
  6. From the Purchase Order node, choose Messages ® Print/Transmit
  7. Enter the following data:

    8. Field

    Europe

    North America

    Document number

    Your PO number

    Your PO number

    Purchasing organization

    1000

    3000

    Purchasing group

    001

    010

  8. Choose .

    9. The system now displays the message record generated automatically when the PO was created.

  9. Select your message record, then choose Display message.

    10. You see the print preview of the message created. On page 2 of this form, you can see details of the configured service lines. To display the other pages, choose .

  10. Choose .
  11. Select your message again, then choose Message detail.

    12. You can now see the corresponding message record with message type NEU. From the item display, we assume that the message will be output as a printout (Medium: Print output).

  12. Select the line, then choose Communication method.

    13. The printer entered is LP01 (field Logical destination). To be able to output this message, you need to enter the printer that is assigned to your workplace. You can find out which printer is assigned to your workplace using either the F4 help in the Logical destination field, or by asking your system administrator.

  13. Enter the following data:
    14.

    Field

    Data

    Logical destination

    Your printer

    Print immediately

    Select

  14. Choose .
  15. Choose until you return to the Message Output screen.

    16. In the dialog box Save message, choose Yes.

  16. Select your message line.
  17. Choose Output message.

    18. The system triggers the printout of the PO form. The system confirms the print job by displaying the icon at the beginning of the message line.

  18. Choose until the overview tree appears.