You can do the following:

• Enter a unique name for the cart to facilitate subsequent searches

• Add a note to the person who is to approve the purchase and to the supplier

• Enter or change Default Settings for subsequent items in your shopping cart, such as cost assignments and delivery addresses

   Caution

  These settings are not transferred to any existing items in the shopping cart.

  End of the caution.

• Preview the details of the approval process in your enterprise and add or remove a reviewer or approver, as appropriate

• Display an overview of the budget, including the overall budget and how much of the budget amount has been assigned

• Display changes to the procurement document

• Limit Item

  You can create items with value limit and/or validity period. In this way, you can execute simple procurement transactions quickly and easily. Such planned procurements are in the form of a general description with a value limit. Up to this limit, confirmations for goods receipts or services, as well as invoices can be entered. You can use the Business Add-In (BAdI) Change Display in Shopping Cart to show or hide this link.

• Old Shopping Carts and Templates

  You can transfer individual items or even entire shopping carts from old shopping carts and templates to your new shopping cart.

• Cross-Catalog Search

  If you select this option, the catalogs that support cross-catalog search are displayed in a separate dialog box. You can enter a search term and start the search.

• As Service Order

  You can order external staff or services. You can use the BAdI Change Display in Shopping Cart to show or hide this link.

• As Service Request

  You can request information on external staff or services from suppliers. You can use the BAdI Change Display in Shopping Cart to show or hide this link.

• <Name of a specific catalog>

  You can search for products in the individual catalogs that are listed.

• Item Data

  Lists the description, the product ID, the price, the delivery date, and so on.

• Notes and Attachments

  Lists notes and attachments, such as:

  • Note to Supplier: You can enter a text that is sent to the supplier.

  • Internal Note: You can create internal notes to provide the approver or purchaser with more information.

  • Attachments: You can attach documents containing additional information for approvers.

• Delivery Address/Performance Location

  Here, you can change the delivery address for the item.

• Account Assignment

  You can display or change your account assignment data. You can assign accounts (also multiple account assignment) to the following objects:

  • Asset cost center

  • Network

  • Order

  • Sales Order

  • WBS Element

  You can copy the entered account assignment data to a clipboard and use it for further items in the shopping cart.

• Partner Overview

• Availability

  If the requested quantity is not available at the requested date, you can change the values, and check the availability for a different quantity and date.

• Approval Process Overview

  Adding or deleting an approver or a reviewer here only affects the displayed item, not all items in the shopping cart.

• Related Documents

• System Info

  Displays technical information about the SAP system that you are using, for example its name.

• Sources of Supply/Service Agents

  The system displays the possible sources of supply (existing either in the back-end system or locally) for the product or user-defined text items. If the system finds a unique source of supply, the source of supply is assigned. If you do not want to use this source of supply, you can replace it by a preferred supplier. If no preferred supplier or source of supply is assigned, the system creates an incomplete purchase order (locally) or a purchase requisition (in the back-end).

   Note

  • If you are adding an item to the shopping cart:

    You can either enter a preferred supplier or select a supplier from the supplier overview. The suppliers from the supplier overview have a valid contract or purchasing info record, for example, for the product. You can undo this assignment by choosing Delete, and then selecting another supplier.

    You can also access supplier lists compiled by your purchaser. The suppliers contained in a supplier list are highlighted in the sources of supply list. Depending on the Customizing settings, the system displays either all suppliers or just those in a supplier list.

  • If you are changing an item in the shopping cart:

    When you change a product category, company code, or plant, sourcing is carried out again.

  • If the item you are adding or changing is a service item:

    Only local sources of supply are available for local services. In the back-end system, no sources of supply are available. You can select a supplier either via the sources of supply list or the supplier list. In addition, you can also select a service provider. If you select the service provider first, the supplier is assigned automatically.

  • If the item you are adding or changing is a limit item:

    The follow-on document can be a blanket purchase order. For blanket purchase orders, no sources of supply are available. You can, however, select a supplier from the supplier list.

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• Print the shopping cart

• Check the status of the shopping cart

• Create a new shopping cart