Bid Invitation: Order as Direct Material flag

[Former Member]

Hi all,

When a purchaser processes a bid invitation, in the basic data in the item data tab there is the possibility to put the flag: "Order as Direct Material".

Does anybody know why is this flag useful?

Thanks in advanced,

Mar

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

This material will come into inventory for which reservations can be made.

When you order a material as direct material there will not be any account assignment.This is like normal R/3 purchase without account assignment and later we can move it to any account(cost center) by goods issue

[Former Member]

Hi

Order as Direct material is used when we want to purchase material which are stored in inventory.

if not chosed,it will be ordered against a cost center ie indirect material

[Former Member]

Hi,

Thanks a lot for your answer, just one more question. When you say that a direct material is stored in inventory does it mean that can be used in reservations? Against which account assignemnt is ordered a direct material (if an indirect material is agains a cost center)?

Thanks a lot in advanced,

Mar