Material Order in Training and Event Management (SAP Library

Material Order in Training and Event Management

Use

In the application component Materials Management (MM), you manage materials. These materials are reserved as resources for business events in Training and Event Management using the Material as Resource in Training and Event Management interface.

A reservation is created for stock material if it is available. A purchase requisition is created in Purchasing for non-stock material or material that is not currently available.

Integration

Functions in Training and Event Management

· Select and reserve material for a business event

· Determine the demand for a material for a business event

· Transmit demand to Materials Management

· Create a reference number for material reservation and/or purchase requisition

· Order material (transfer material reservation or purchase requisition)

· Check material order

Functions in Materials Management

· Check availability of material

· Create material reservation or purchase requisition

· Transmit material purchase requisition to Purchasing

· Stage material

· Transmit reservation or purchase requisition number

Data Flow

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· In Training and Event Management, the report RHMARP00 is used to determine the material requirements of a business event and transmit these to Materials Management. An availability check is carried out for the required material and an availability indicator is transmitted to Training and Event Management. This data transfer is realized using synchronous communication.

· In Training and Event Management, either a reservation or a purchase requisition is created depending on the availability indicator. This process generates either one or two reference numbers.

· Material data is transmitted using asynchronous communication to Materials Management. A reservation or purchase requisition number is generated there. The reservation or purchase requisition is further processed until the material is available.

· During material order checking (report RHMARP00), a check is carried out in Materials Management for the reservation or purchase requisition number using the business event key and the reference number is returned to Training and Event Management (via synchronous communication).

Prerequisites

· Release 4.5A or higher of both Training and Event Management and Materials Management since the material order was not supported in previous releases.

· In distributed systems, the customer distribution model must be maintained. This means that the HR System must be defined as the sending system and Logistics as the receiving system during object method specification.

You must make the following entries using the Maintain Method function in the SAP Customizing Implementation Guide (IMG) under SAP Web Application Server ® Application Link Enabling (ALE) ® Modelling and Implementing Business Processes ® Maintain Distribution Model and Distribute Views:

CLIENT: HR System

SERVER: Logistics System

OBJECT: Material

METHOD: GetList

OBJECT: MaterialReservation

METHOD: CreateFromData

OBJECT: Purchase Requisition

METHOD: CreateFrom Data

You can generate the partner profile from the distribution model. For more information, see the SAP Customizing Implementation Guide (IMG) under SAP Web Application Server ® Application Link Enabling (ALE) ® Modelling and Implementing Business Processes ® Partner Processing and Time of Processing ® Generate Partner Profiles.

Note

For more information on the ALE business process Set Up Material as Resource in Training and Event Management, see the SAP Customizing Implementation Guide (IMG) under SAP Web Application Server ® Application Link Enabling (ALE) ® Modelling and Implementing Business Processes ® Predefined ALE Business Processes ® Human Resources ® HR <-> LO ® Set Up Material as Resource in Training and Event Management.