How to use the direct material indicator in Plan Driven Procurement?

[Former Member]

Dear Experts,

How the system determine the procurement as direct material procurement in Plan driven scenario? In case of manual shopping cart, the system determines the direct material /indirect material procurement based on the check box 'Order as direct material'

indicator.

Now in case of plan driven procurement, where the requisition comes from ECC system, there is no way to indicate in the MM system for direct material?

Could you please enlighten me here?

Thanks and regards,

Ranjan

[ravindra_mantri2 · Accepted solution]

Hi Ranjan,

In case of manual shopping cart, system at that point does not know whether the material procured has inventory management maintained or material valuation. Hence we need to specify option of 'Order as direct material'.

But when requisition is created in ECC system, SAP system already is aware of direct procurement since material used will have material master / Inventory management / Material valuation / Storage location etc maintained. And the info or some indicator will be sent to front end SRM system accordingly.

Moreover it does not really matter for front-end SRM system to check whether it's a direct or indirect procurement since all procurement processes followed in SRM will be exactly same.

Hope this provides some kind of understanding for your questions.

-Ravi

[former_member183819]

see more info on this BADI

BBP_DP_PRD_CHK_BADI

PRODUCT_CHECK - method and see the parameters for reference.

Check: If Product Can Be a Direct Material

Muthu