Creating a Purchase Order (SAP Library - Materials Management (MM))

Creating a Purchase Order

Call up the transaction as follows:

Menu Path	Logistics ® Materials Management ® Purchasing ® Purchase Order ® Create ® Vendor/Supplying Plant Known
Transaction Code	ME21N

You now have the option of setting default entries for the PO document. To do this, choose Default Settings for Order Document Fields.

If you do modify your personal settings, this could mean that the entries you see on your screens might differ from those described in the IDES processes. To avoid this situation, when you have completed this process we strongly advise you to reset any changes you make to your personal settings.

Enter the following data:

Field	Europe	North America
	Standard PO	Standard PO
Vendor	1000	3000
Document date	Today’s date	Today’s date

Choose

To open the item header area, choose

Header.

On the Org.data tab page, enter the following data:

Field	Europe	North America
Purchasing org.	1000	3000
Purchasing group	003	003
Company code	1000	3000

To open the item overview area, choose

Item overview.

Enter the following data:

Field	Europe	North America
A	K	K
Material	99-100	99-100
PO quantity	600	600
D	D	D
Delivery date	Today’s date + 1 month	Today’s date + 1 month
Net price	2,00	2,00
Plant	1000	3000
Storage location	0001	0001

Choose

It is possible that the material already has an info record, which overwrites the amount you have just entered. If necessary, correct the net price, then choose .

To open the item detail area, choose

Item detail.

Choose the Account assignment tab page.

If the Account assignment tab page is not displayed in tabular form, choose .

To delete the first item, select it, then choose

Enter the following data:

Field	Europe	North America
Quantity	200 for each cost center	200 for each cost center
First cost center	4200	4200
Second cost center	4220	4220
Third cost center	4240	4240

Choose

On the Invoice tab page, select GR-based IV (Goods receipt based invoice verification).

Choose the Delivery tab page, then select GR Non-valuated.

To skip any warning messages, choose .

Choose

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

Choose

until the overview tree appears.