Creating a Purchase Requisition 

Use

The person responsible wishes to order PCs for several work centers in plant 1000.

Procedure

  1. Log on to your IDES system as user WF-MM-1 , password WELCOME , language EN .
  2. Call up the transaction as follows:
    3.

    Menu Path

    Logistics ® Materials Management ® Purchasing ® Purchase Requisition ® Create

    Transaction Code

    ME51N

  3. Enter the following data:
    4.

    Field

    Data

    Purchase requis. Standard

  4. To open the item overview area, choose Item overview.
  5. Enter the following data:
    6.

    Field

    Europe

    A (Account assignment category)

    K

    Material

    R-1003

    Quantity requested

    500

    Delivery date

    Two weeks from today

    Plant

    1000

    PGr (purchasing group)

    001

  6. Choose .

    7. To skip any warning messages, choose .

  7. On the Account assignment tab page in the item detail area, enter the following data:
    8.

    Field

    Data

    Cost center

    1000

  8. Choose .
  9. To check whether a release strategy has been determined, choose the Release strategy tab page.

    10. The release indicator is set to S for Blocked. A release strategy has been determined (TF - Release/BoD GE). This means that all the criteria from the release strategy have been fulfilled. In our case, the total value of the purchase requisition item exceeds 5000 EUR.

  10. To check that the release is technically possible, position the cursor on in the TD line.
  11. Choose .

    12. The system confirms the posting and assigns a document number. Make a note of the number that appears in the status bar.

  12. Choose until the overview tree appears.

Do not log off yet as user WF-MM-1 . You will need this user when you confirm the rejection via the workflow in a later process step.