Additionals: Generating Additionals Purchase Orders Automatically 
Additionals: Generating Additionals Purchase Orders Automatically
Use
If you want to procure additionals externally (for example, from tickets vendors) you can have the system generate a purchase order for the additionals. In Customizing, you can define which event should generate an additionals document, a purchase order for additionals being generated later for this additionals document.
Integration
The updating of additionals order data in the form of additionals documents is triggered by an event in an application (such as the creation of a purchase order placed with an external vendor).
Prerequisites
You can activate order data updates in Customizing for each procedure for additionals. You must therefore assign a procedure for additionals to a particular application and a follow-up action to an event.
Features
When an event occurs and the Customizing settings specify that an additionals purchase order should be created for that event, the order data is adopted in the additionals document. You can display the additionals documents and their content using the additionals monitor.
You can use user exit EXIT_ADDI_ORDER_FORMS_001 to retrieve the order data and change it as required. You then use program ADDI_ORDERS_CREATE to convert the order data to purchase orders. We recommend you run the report daily.
Example
The following examples illustrate how this function can be used:
You want to use a private label to sell merchandise which you ordered from an external vendor. You require packaging with your own label, which you want to buy from a packaging vendor. The creation of the purchase order you place with the vendor is therefore defined as an event that triggers an additionals purchase order.
You order apparel from a vendor who is to attach price tickets to the merchandise. You generate the label purchase order for the imprinter yourself.
As you want to specify the appointment for triggering the label purchase order, you can select a date that is as late as possible. This prevents having to relabel merchandise in the distribution center because sales price changes may be introduced before the trigger date: having to relabel merchandise is very costly. The planned delivery date is used as the data for calculating sales price conditions.