Creating a Purchase Requisition with Automatic Source Determination 

  1. Call up the transaction as follows:
    2.

    Menu Path

    From the Purchase Requisition node, choose Create

    Transaction Code

    ME51N

  2. Enter the following data:
    3.

    Field

    Data

    Purchase requisition Standard

    Source determination

    Select

  3. To open the item overview area, choose Item overview.
  4. Enter the following data:
    5.

    Field

    Europe

    North America

    Material

    100-430

    100-430

    Quantity requested

    50

    50

    Deliv.date

    Today’s date + 1 month

    Today’s date + 1 month

    Plant

    1000

    3000

    PGr (purchasing group)

    001

    010

  5. Choose .

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

  6. To open the item detail area, choose Item detail.

    7. You can now see the number of your outline agreement on the Source of supply tab page. The system assigned the purchase requisition item to this procurement reference via the source list.

  7. Choose .

    8. The R/3 System confirms the transaction and displays the assigned purchase requisition number. Make a note of this number.

  8. Choose until the overview tree appears.