Purchase Order for Material Using an External Procurement System (SAP Library

Purchase Order for Material Using an External Procurement System

Use

Using this function you can order material in an external procurement system from maintenance orders, service orders, and networks, for example SAP Enterprise Buyer (EBP).

Integration

You can transfer material components for which you want to create a purchase requisition (PReq) from an external catalog (see Open Catalog Interface (OCI)) using the open catalog interface (OCI) .

Prerequisites

You installed the SAP R/3 Plug-in for the EBP.

You require this plug-in even if you do not use the EBP, but rather a different external procurement system.

You determined in which system (external procurement system or SAP R/3) purchase order handling for a purchase requisition should take place. You do this by defining a combination of purchasing group and material group referring to another system by using a profile. Use the transaction SM30 in the Views V_T160EX and V_T160PR. Or you can determine a purchasing profile by using your own logic in the Customer Exit BBPK0001.