Limit Items in Self-Service Procurement
As an employee, you can now create, edit, copy and delete limit items. Limit items are unplanned services and materials that cannot be specified in detail at the time of ordering. You can define an expected value and an overall limit for these items.
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Edit Rejected Purchase Requisitions
As an employee or purchaser, you can now edit rejected purchase requisitions and purchase requisition items. When choosing to edit, the requisition or item moves out of the Rejected status and enables resubmission. You can then make the required changes and save. Based on the changes made, the relevant workflow is triggered.
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Manage Purchase Requisitions – Professional
‘Rework’ in Edit and Approve Purchase Requisition
As an approver, you now have a Request Rework option in the app Edit and Approve Purchase Requisition. You can use this option to edit and send back reworkable purchase requisitions or purchase requisition items to requesters for rework. Requesters can then make the required changes in the requisition and resubmit.
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Edit and Approve Purchase Requisition
‘Rework’ in Central Purchase Requisitions
As a configuration expert, you can now configure workflows with step type Overall Release of Reworkable Central PR and Release of Reworkable Central PR Item to enable approvers to send back central purchase requisitions and items to requesters for rework.
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For a detailed demo of the Rework feature, please check this video.
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Manage Workflows for Purchase Requisitions
Deadline Email Notification
As a configuration expert, you can configure to send automatic email notifications to approvers once the approval deadline is reached.
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Manage Workflows for Purchase Requisitions
Settings for Creation of Reservation
As a configuration expert, you can select the checkbox Check Unrestricted Stock Only if you want the stock availability to be determined based on only the unrestricted use stock. In this case, the checking rule is bypassed. Also, in the connected system, you can now enable the creation of automatic reservations corresponding to Central Requisitioning.
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Settings for Creation of Reservation
Purchase Requisition/Item Object Page
You can now view the Approval Details section in the purchase requisition and purchase requisition item object page. This section contains details related to the workflow steps of the purchase requisition.
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Purchase Requisition Object Page
Purchase Requisition Item Object Page
Purchase Requisition – OData API
This API now provides an additional parameter Reservation in the item entity. This parameter indicates the document number of the reservation, if any, that has been created for the purchase requisition item.
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OData API: Purchase Requisition
Guided Buying with SAP Ariba Buying (2NV and 3EN)
You can create and send customized non-catalog request forms from guided buying to SAP S/4HANA Cloud. You can also include material ID as a standard field for catalog items in guided buying requests that are sent to SAP S/4HANA Cloud.
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Guided Buying Capability with SAP Ariba Buying (2NV)
Guided Buying for Central Procurement with SAP Ariba Buying (3EN)