Date:
14.11.23
Purchase
Requisitions
Creating Purchase
Requisitions
With transaction ME51N – Create purchase requisition (Logistics / Materials management /
Purchasing / Purchase requisition / ME51N Create), the user can create a purchase requisition
1. Source determination: if there is only one vendor for the
material and all master data has been maintained correctly,
by selecting this option the system will automatically assign
1 the vendor to the purchase requisition.
2. Header note. Enter any text relevant for the Purchasing
department. Mostly used for one-time purchases.
2 3. Account assignment category: used for one-time
purchases. Choose K to purchase material that is issued
directly to a cost center when posting the goods receipt –
and enter a cost center in a following screen.
4. Material: enter the material number.
8 5. Short text. Is copied from the material master
3 4 5 6 7 description. For one-time purchases, enter a description.
6. Quantity: in order unit of measure.
7. Delivery date: date when the material is required. If not
filled in the field will be filled with today’s date.
8. Plant / storage location: where the material needs to be
delivered. Is filled from the user’s parameters.
Change Purchase
Requisitions .
By filling in the required fields and pressing
enter, the system will retrieve the purchasing
data from the material master (and vendor / info
record if source determination is selected) and
displays these in the tabs at the bottom of the
screen.
The field “requisitioner” on the far right of the
screen can be used to enter the name or initials
of the requisitioner. This can be used later on to
check the status of each purchase requisition.
Check if the purchase requisition has been
completely maintained with the button. For
serious errors the system will issue a warning
when trying to save.
Save the purchase requisition by pressing .
Displaying purchase
requisitions With transaction ME53N - Display purchase requisition
(Logistics / Materials management / Purchasing / Purchase
requisition / ME53N Display) or transaction ME5A –
General list (Logistics / Materials management /
Purchasing / Purchase requisition / List displays / / ME5A
General) the user can check on the status of purchase
requisitions. If the purchase requisition has not been
picked up by the purchasing department (i.e. not
converted into a purchase order) the requisition will be
displayed in the list.
If a requisition will not be fulfilled, the requisition can be
deleted by using transaction ME52N – Change purchase
requisition (Logistics / Materials management / Purchasing
/ Purchase requisition / ME52N Change).
Select the line item that needs to be deleted and
press
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