Creating a Standard Purchase Order 

  1. Call up the transaction as follows:
    2.

    Menu Path

    From the Materials Management node, choose 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.

  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, enter the following data:
    6.

    Field

    Data

    Purchasing org.

    1000

    Purchasing group

    002

    Company code

    1000

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

    Field

    Data

    Material

    101-110

    PO quantity

    10

  8. Choose .
  9. To open the item detail area, choose Item detail.
  10. On the Invoice tab page, select GR-based IV (Goods receipt based invoice verification).
  11. In the item row, enter the following data:
    12.

    Field

    Data

    Plant

    1000

    If you have already set a default plant using Personal Setting, you do not need to enter any data here.

  12. Choose .

    13. The system now determines the net price from the purchasing information record of the material and calculates the earliest possible delivery date via the planned delivery time. These values are inserted into the relevant item fields as changeable default values.

    If the system is unable to find a purchasing information record, a red icon appears in the status column.

  13. In the item row, enter the following data:
    14.

    Field

    Data

    Delivery date

    Two weeks from today

    Net price

    Any value

    Storage location

    0001

  14. Choose .

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

  15. Choose until the overview tree appears.