Purchase Order has no items

[Former Member]

Hey Gurus,

We are using subcontracting and we have a material that has a BOM structure with one component that is purchase complete. the top level material is set up for subcontracting. When we go to move the inventory over to the vendor by using MB1B and movement type 541, it is giving us a error that says: "Purchase order 4600006535 has no items." If you go into the purchase order, you can click on the components and you will see the lower level component in the purchase order. We can't figure out why, MB1B is not picking up the component for this specific item off the purchas order. Do you guys have any suggestions on things we could check to make this work?

[Former Member]

Hey Guys,

The ind/coll. indicator in the material master was set to "2". that was causing it to throw out the material. I can't really understand why but that was what was happening.

[Former Member]

Dear Nina,

You may do following Checks, at your end:

1. PO date is in future

2. In T. Code: ME22N --> Tab: Delivery (at PO item-level details),

check whether Box: Goods Receipt is ticked or not, if goods receipt check box is not ticked you will not be able to do the GR.

3. Also, check Tab: Confirmation. Remove the Option: confirmation Reqd.

4. PO subjected to release strategy (T. Code: ME29N)

Best Regards,

Amit

[Former Member]

Hey Guys,

I have checked the confirmations tab and that was selected but we removed it. the product is set for GR in the delivery tab. We are still having problems with the line item on the PO and the product has not had a GR done against it as of yet. Do you guys have any other suggestions for us?

[Former Member]

Here is some more information after I have tested this issue a little further:

The place we are having an issue is when we use the PO through MB1B to move this one component. If you manually try to move the component 60001391 using MB1B with a 541 without the PO, it seems to work just fine.

I also checked out the PO. What I did was add components to the line item on the PO to see if it was an issue with the set up of the PO. When I added other components other than 60001391 that was failing, the system picked those materials up when I tried to use MB1B. But, it didnt' pick up the component 6001391. I am not sure why it would pick up the other components and not this one component do you have any suggestions?

[former_member192897]

If Purchase order Document is Subject to Release, Ensure document is Released.

If Confirmation Control has been set in Purchase order line item Remove the same and Save.

Ensure Goods Receipt / issue is not done already.