Manually assign External Procurement Profile Indicator in PDP cycle

[Former Member]

Dear SAP Guru's,

In PDP cycle, if you want to push PR from ECC to SRM, the PR should have External Procurement Profile tag.

This tag can be assigned manually to specific Purchase requisition on incident basis.

Control External Procurement (table T160EX) has manual check box. If the checkbox is checked then the external procurement profile tag is not updated while creating PR. One needs to manually tag the purchase requisition.

Can any one tell which report/program will update External procurement profile when Manual check box is checked in table T160EX?

Regards,

Sandeep Parab

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

If you dont check the MANUAL check box,then the entries for the PR will be populated automatically in table EPRTRANS.

If you have made it manual (checked MANUAL option),you have to run transaction ME56 to assign the source of supply in backend system.This flag decides Purchase requisition to be sourced manually.

EPRTRANS entry will be created after running the above transaction.

Also refer OSS note 648074 whcih says:

"The decision whether a purchase requisition should be transferred to the SRM server is shifted from the time of the generation to a later time. At this later time, the generated purchase requisition is automatically sourced using the RM06BZ10 report (Transaction ME56). During automatic sourcing, the system decides (based on the purchasing group and the material group) if the purchase requisition is potentially provided for the transfer to the SRM server. In addition, however, a unique R/3 source of supply must not exist. If this condition is met as well, the purchase requisition is transferred to the SRM server. However, if the system finds a unique source of supply, the purchase requisition remains local and can be processed in the R/3 system. To do this, you have to start the RM06BZ10 report or schedule it periodically. However, to ensure the standard functions, a distinction must be made whether a purchase requisition should be processed by default or using the new functions. For this purpose, the new 'manual' flag was implemented in R/3 plug-in 2003.1 Support Package 2 in the definition of the combinations of material group and purchasing group to be transferred (maintenance view V_T160EX)."

BR,

Disha.

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[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks Disha,

That clears my understanding..

Regards,

Sandeep