If an external service (externally processed activity) must be procured due to a production order and the components are to be provided to the vendor, the system creates a purchase requisition with the item category subcontracting.

The buyer responsible then processes the purchase requisition and one or more purchase orders will be created for it.

When converting this purchase requisition into a purchase order, the system copies the components including all the necessary AFS data from the production order.

When you create an order, the system creates a purchase requisition with the item category subcontracting for an externally processed activity that has the Subcontracting indicator flagged.

However, the purchase requisition does not contain any AFS data!

If you create a purchase order with reference to this purchase requisition, the purchase order receives all the necessary data for processing the material at the vendor. All the necessary AFS data is then copied from the production order. After the processing, the vendor sends the material back to the warehouse.

Manually created purchase order items with the category subcontracting and an account assignment to a production order are not supported with AFS data!

You can find further information in the documentation PP - Production Orders in the section External Procurement/External Processing.