Technical Name of Business Function |
|
Type of Business Function |
Enterprise Business Function |
Available From |
SAP Enhancement Package 3 for SAP ERP 6.0 |
Technical Usage |
Central Applications |
Application Component |
Materials Management Purchasing (MM-PUR) |
Directly dependent business function requiring activation in addition |
Not relevant |
This business function enables you to make your purchasing processes clearer and more efficient. Personalized worklists and a user-friendly user interface make it easier to process and track all purchasing processes. You can easily adapt the user interface to suit your requirements. This business function enables you to automate the transactions of the entire procurement process. All of this reduces the total cost of ownership, because you need to spend less on user training.
You have installed the following components as of the version given:
Type of component |
Component |
Is only used for the following functions |
---|---|---|
Software Component |
SAP_APPL 603 |
|
Business Intelligence Content |
SAP BW BI Content 7.0.2 Add-On |
|
Portal content |
As of Business Package for Buyer 1.3 |
You have implemented Basis note 1089724.
You must make the following Customizing settings:
For Business Package for Buyer, under
For the BAdI "Change Price, Pricing Unit, Currency of Purchase Requisition Item", under
In the Buyer portal role, the descriptions of the following work centers have changed:
Old Name |
New Name |
---|---|
Transaction processing |
Purchasing Documents |
Vendor information |
Master Data for Vendors |
Information on material |
Master Data for Materials |
Services procurement |
Master Data for Services |
New features are available in the following work centers:
Work center |
New feature |
---|---|
Service entry (new) |
|
Goods receipt (new) |
|
Purchasing documents (enhanced) |
|
Invoice (new) |
|
Master data for vendors (enhanced) |
|
Master data for materials (enhanced) |
|
Master data for services (enhanced) |
|
In addition to the new features in the work centers, the following new or changed applications are available.
This gives you a quick overview of the document chains in a procure-to-pay process. With any document in the process chain (for example, a goods receipt document), you can launch document tracing
to display an overview of all preceding documents and follow-on documents. You can navigate directly into individual documents from the application.
The application Collective Processing of Purchase Requisitions
is a new Web Dynpro-based application that essentially covers the scope of functions in the back-end transaction Assign and Process Purchase Requisition
(ME57
). The following functions are available:
Assign sources of supply to purchase requisitions. This involves assigning sources of supply to individual requisition items.
Further Processing of Purchase Requisitions via the Assignment List. This involves the manual creation of purchase orders or delivery schedule lines from a list of requisitions with assigned sources.
Assign and process purchase requisitions. This involves assigning sources to listed purchase requisitions and creating requests for quotation, purchase orders, and delivery schedule lines. (This function is a combination of Assign Purchase Requisitions
and Further Processing of Purchase Requisitions via the Assignment List
. You can also change order quantities and delivery dates.)
Create purchase orders from requisitions automatically. This involves having the system generate purchase orders automatically from a list of purchase requisitions with assigned sources of supply (see Automatic Generation of Purchase Orders from Requisitions.)
Create a bid invitation from a purchase requisition.
Send purchase requisitions to an external sourcing application (for example, SAP SRM).
The application Creation and Processing of Purchase Requisitions
is a new Web Dynpro-based application. The following functions are available:
Create purchase requisition with master record
Create purchase requisition without master record
Create purchase requisition using the referencing technique
The application Creation and Processing of Scheduling Agreement Releases
is a new Web Dynpro-based application. You can create and process scheduling agreement releases.
You can use the service map to navigate directly to all services and work centers. This also includes the new services and work centers.
Business Add-In (BAdI) Change Price, Pricing Unit, Currency of Purchase Requisition Item
(BADI_ME_PR_PRICE_CUST
) is also available for purchase requisition items. You can use this BAdI to change the price, pricing unit, and currency in certain purchase requisitions. You can use this BAdI for the following purchase requisitions:
Purchase requisitions from Advanced Planner and Optimizer (SAP APO)
Purchase requisitions that you can process using the following BAPIs:
BAPI_REQUISITION_CREATE
BAPI_REQUISITION_CHANGE
BAPI_REQUISITION_DELETE
The new archiving programs Write (RM08RW47
) and Delete (RM08RD47
) are available for archiving object MM_REBEL
.