Technical Name of Business Function |
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Type of Business Function | Enterprise Business Function |
Available From | SAP enhancement package 6 for SAP ERP 6.0 |
Technical Usage | Central Applications |
Application Component | Self-Service Procurement (MM-PUR-SSP) |
Required Business Function | Not relevant |
You can use this business function to enable your employees to use Self-Service Procurement to create and manage shopping carts for requisitions. Self-Service Procurement is an application that users use for purchase requisitions.
You have installed the following components as of the version mentioned:
Type of Component | Component | Required for the Following Features Only |
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Software Component |
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SAP NetWeaver | SAP NetWeaver 703 | |
Portal Content | The required business package Role names | |
PFCG Role | You can use the following roles in a non-portal environment:
Run transaction |
Self-Service Procurement simplifies and accelerates your purchasing processes by allowing users to enter their requisitions directly in the shopping cart application. To order products, employees can use a cross-catalog search or search for a material master record. In addition, they can describe the required product.
A workflow for approving shopping carts is in place. Approval processes are implemented using the BRFplus. Approvers receive work items for approval in their inbox. Approval is facilitated by features such as approval notes, approval of individual products or entire shopping carts, and an overview of recently ordered products of the employee.
Self-Service Procurement is part of the Purchasing
component of Materials Management in SAP ERP. It ensures full access to SAP ERP data such as cost centers. Shopping carts created by employees result in follow-on processes in SAP ERP, for example, the creation of purchase requisitions or reservations.
In the case where the creation of a purchase requisition or that the purchase orders data may be incomplete, and in those cases if the park and hold functionality is active, then the purchase requisition or purchase order is created in a held state, and this can then later be corrected by the buyer.