Purchase Non-Stock (text item) from Vendor

[Former Member]

Hello experts,

We are redoing out implementation of project system to purchase materials from external vendors. These are non-stock items, therefore are entered as text items. From project system, we are trying to figure out the correct way to plan and then purchase these materials. Which activity type should we use (internal or external) and then should we also use material components?

In our old PS implementation, we used internal activities to purchase materials from vendors but have a lot of customization to allow us to change the currency of the material planning field. Once this is done we add material components to the internal activity which create the purchase requisitions. Our thought was to use external activities and material components, but then when a plan is entered in the activity, it is doubled up when the material component and value are entered. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

[Former Member]

Use internal activity with item category 'N'.

Going thru your post i think that you have more than 1 issue associated with your project. Kindly explain the issues in detail so that it will be easy for forum members to help you.

Regards,

Gokul

[former_member203098]

hi,

you can plan the nonstock materials in the project by asignning the material to internal activity. however the material item category

should be n. the plan cost will be updated as defined in the non stock material component.

regards,

[nitin_patoliya]

Hi James your question is not clear to me. If you are asking that is it better to use internal or external activity in std. SAP than both serves different purpose. For text item non stock item you can use internal activity if other works is done in your organization. External activity if you are going do some work apart from purchasing nonstokc text item in that case.

With Regards

Nitin P.