This process will enable system to create the Purchase Orders automatically from the Purchase Requisitions created in the system, without manual intervention, and at regular intervals of time with predetermined master data set up and with a predefined job schedule to run at regular intervals of time.  An automatic PO is created either when received....

Explanation of Vendor Consignment inventory As a definition in a normal consignment process, the consignment inventory is a supply chain model in which a product is sold by a retailer, but ownership is retained by the supplier until the product has been sold. Because the retailer does not actually buy the inventory until it has been....

As a first attempt at blogging, I wanted to both clarify a specific topic from a technical point of view and also trigger a discussion if SAP could go further in this topic for the future.   Simplified base precondition: purchase of valued stock item with GR-based Invoice flag active: PO-GR-IR.   Goods Receipt based....

Flexible Workflow for Sourcing and Procurement in SAP S/4HANA Flexible Workflow is a new concept introduced in SAP S/4HANA with the objective of simplifying workflow configuration. Documents in Sourcing and Procurement, such as purchase requisition, purchase order, request for quotation, etc., usually go through an approval process. In the SAP ERP system, we used Release....

Today, I would like to discuss a scenario that I recently came across. As an ABAP consultant, finding and enhancing standard transactions is the need for the business and achieving the same is a crucial task. When I got the requirement to assign F4 help to a field in PR and PO, I started scratching....

The following process will shed light on How to Clear Stolen or Damaged Stock from In Transit Stock. Problem Statement: The issue is that when businesses transfer intra company stock, some stocks has been stolen or damaged in In-Transit and that stock shows in the system under In-Transit report (MB5T). After sometimes such type of....

My recent article Hyperspeed planning in SAP TM has explained TM ⇔ delivery integration issues when statistical stages are used and delivery transportation planning status is “partially planned“. The delivery date can get inconsistent in such a scenario, it can even get earlier then the picking date! The delivery integration problem is even more severe as it....

SAP has published a report called PP_MRP_SUPPORT (Note 3199068), which can assist in analyzing issues that may arise in the MRP environment. The report provides access to: MRP-relevant material master data, Sourcing Master data for in-house and external replenishment Implemented User Exits and BAdI’s(w/o AMDP BAdI’s) The ability to navigate to customizing settings MRP Background Jobs MRP....

In this post blog, I will show you how to change screen field properties and how to hide screen fields/tabs on purchase requisitions screens.(ME51N, ME52N, ME53N) This blog post specifically will cover showing, hiding fields which can not be customized by using SPRO customizing settings. In additional, it works on S/4HANA Cloud too. In our....

The purpose of this blog post is to give you an overview about what you can do when there are mismatches between the Purchase Order history of your SAP ECC and SRM systems. As an SRM Support engineer I often meet customer cases, where the booked values of SRM Confirmations (aka MM Goods receipts) and....

This blog will be useful for people working in the areas of SAP Production Planning (PP) or SAP Material Management (MM) as this is a crossfunctional area. Here I am trying to focus on one of the extensively used functionalities in SAP PP i.e MRP. As many of you know, MRP is a very complex....

Hello Everyone, The following process will shed light on how to delete a component from a Maintenance or Service Order. Problem Statement: The issue is that business is unable to delete a component/material from a Maintenance or Service Order permanently and the quantity of that component/material is displayed in MD04. Due to this issue, the....

Hello everyone, Welcome to my new blog, where you will learn to set up a flexible workflow for procurement contract in S4/HANA. For those of you who wonder what is so important about that, i already inform you that the flexible workflow for procurement contracts will provide you, being the key decision maker, the ability....

Hi! In this blog post, we will see how to calculate the accumulative sum using ABAP CDS views without using any AMDP function implementation. First, let us see an example of cumulative amount figures by Calendar Year and Calendar Month. Calendar Year Calendar Month Amount Cumulative Amount 2022 JAN 10000.00 10000.00 2022 FEB 12000.00 22000.00....

Introduction: The purpose of this blog is to provide an overview on how ‘Maintain Email Template’ app can be used to notify approver once PO is created and creator once PO is approved/rejected via email notification. This functionality is available in both on premise and cloud version of S/4HANA. Pre-requisite: Flexible workflow for purchase orders....

This article explains the functional benefit of Origin acceptance in SAP and the related SAP settings and processes. This will be helpful for the consultants, subject matter experts and business users in the procure to pay area. It is explained in a simple and easy way. Overview: Origin acceptance is meant for accepting goods at....

In many organizations there is a requirement in reports related to data extraction of text from text views. Like material purchase order text view,  many organizations are using frequently these text views to save important information. In this blog I am sharing abap report from which users can easily extract this data. Also it provides....

Hi friends, Many times it has been asked that how to find first release date of purchase order at all levels, where PO may be release many times at many levels, but we want to exactly know the initial release date. Take an example — I have created a purchase order (in ME21N) and it....

Automatic Document Adjustment is a popular functionality widely used in Materials Management and in Retail environment as well being able to update documents based on condition changes in mass – and roughly automated! Current blog puts focus on Purchase Order related issues, related frequently asked questions and misconception with Automatic Document Adjustment (ADA). Pre-read https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_S4HANA_ON-PREMISE/9905622a5c1f49ba84e9076fc83a9c2c/e24dc4530b29b44ce10000000a174cb4.html?locale=en-US [1]....

The purpose of this blog is to provide a detailed view of the Purchase Requisition’s (PR) end to end process flow along with screen shots of relevant Fiori app. This blog will help the SAP PTP Consultants in visualizing the end-to-end process flow of Purchase Requisition using Fiori apps. In any organization procurement starts with....

In  part-1 of this blog series we will add a custom field Smart Number to SAP S/4HANA Manage Purchase Order SAP Fiori app and also make it editable so that data will persist in Database. Manage Purchase Order is Created using below principles:   Backend SAP Fiori Elements on CDS for UI annotations Reference Data Source to enable OData....

With the SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2105 release, you can now do the following for purchase orders: App Name Feature Documentation Manage Purchase Orders, Create Purchase Order – Advanced, and Purchase Order OData API: API_PURCHASEORDER_PROCESS_SRV The product compliance status fields are now available in purchase orders. What’s New Manage Workflows for Purchase Orders The configuration step Manage....

INTRODUCTION In the Extended Classic Scenario of the SAP Supplier Relation Management module, we know that the Purchase Orders are created in the SRM system and is then replicated or copied back to the ECC system. In other words, in an extended classic scenario, the procurement process takes place in the SAP SRM system. The....

SAP Cloud Platform Workflow Management provides digitalization of workflows, decision management, visibility on end-to-end (SAP & non-SAP) business processes. It provides the line of business users with SAP Fiori-based user interfaces, and let the line of business experts configure new process variants in an LCNC (low-code/no-code) approach. SAP Cloud Platform Workflow Management now provides pre-built process content....

How we connect has changed so quickly in our personal lives over the last 30 years – we are a connected, global community. But how we communicate in the Supply Chain did not evolve at that same pace. SAP acquired Ariba in 2012 with a simple idea to help solve that problem – to connect....