Internal PO process

[Former Member]

Hi All,

There is a requirement wherein a central team raises  Purchase orders for the business units internally for works undertaken. Here, the amount on such PO's will be 0 (Free Goods indicator turned ON), as the nosiness units wont be charged. But, they need to let the business unit know there was a cost of $$$ for this work to be done, but they don't want the business unit to bear the cost.

What is the best possible solution and process in SAP??

Rgds,

SS

[former_member190893]

Hi

in PO u create Account Assignment Cat as "z".in that mention free of cost items as 0 value. u get the Reports also. ME2L,ME2N,ME2M.

Regards

Kumar

[Former Member]

Hi AKPT,

Thanks for that! I was also thinking of option 2.

Regards,

SS

[former_member183424]

You can use the free text field "Requirement No" as below:

Then you will be able to see this field in various reports (like as ME2N/ME2L/ME2M etc)

[Prasoon]

Hi,

   You may check the following options:

1.Even if you maintain the item as free item, the header level condition tab will be available. You can maintain a specific header level statistical condition in the pricing procedure and maintain the price in PO - header level - conditions tab. However, the net price will be zero.

2. Maintain the price in some free text fields in PO header / item. You can find few free fields like "your reference" in header level - communications tab. You may make use of these fields.

3. You may use the header text also as already suggested by Akash.

   Option 2 will allow you to pull the same in standard reports like ME2N (with dynamic selection.

Regards,

AKPT

[former_member190990]

Hi,

Using header text is an option to record the cost involved for the operations if you would still like to maintain '0' price in the PO.

Regards,

Akash

[Former Member]

Hi Akash,

Per your suggestion, which standard report can show the header text?

//SS

[former_member190990]

Hi,

Unfortunately we dont have standard report to pull out Header Texts. But it can be acheived by Functional Module "READ_TEXT" with the following parameters.

To reach the above screen, double click on the Header Text field, on the menu Goto -> Header.

If you are not willing to go for customization, alternative would be the 2nd option suggested by Prasoon below.

Regards,

Akash