Creating a 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

    4444

    Document date

    Today’s date

  3. Choose .
  4. To open the header data area, choose Header.
  5. On the Org.data tab page, enter the following data:
    6.

    Field

    Data

    Purchasing org.

    1000

    Purchasing group

    001

    Company code

    1000

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

    Field

    Data

    Material

    1300-260

    PO quantity

    10

    C (Category of delivery date)

    D

    Delivery date

    Two weeks from today

    Net price

    10

    Plant

    1000

    Storage location

    0001

  8. Choose .

    9. 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 .

  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. Choose .

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

  12. Choose until the overview tree appears.