Creating a PO through Shipment

[Former Member]

Gurus,

Please advice the step by step the about how a PO is triggered in the background after shipment is completed, please give me the configuration and the relevant transactions and the master data maintenace.

[Former Member]

adding to the Sreeram murthy,

Once you complete the settings you need to flag the Transfer field of the Shipment cost document by using T.Code VI02.

The PO created is a Service Po this can see inthe ML81n.

Regards

T.Muthyalappa.

[Former Member]

Logistics Execution > Transportation > Shipment Cost Document > Settlement

- Assign Purchasing Data

- Maintain Account Assignment Category

<u><b>Assign Purchasing Data</b></u>

For settlement, you must assign the organizational units in the shipment to the relevant organizational units in purchasing.

These settings are necessary for creating accruals. The accruals are posted using service entry sheets. The purchasing organizational

Activities

Enter a relevant purchasing organization, purchasing group and plant for each transportation planning point and shipment cost type.

<u><b>Maintain Account Assignment Category</b></u>

In this IMG activity, you can maintain the properties of the account assignment categories. You can determine which fields are assigned during shipment cost processing as mandatory, optional, display or grayed-out fields.

For automatic determination of a G/L account, the account modification field must be filled.

Also make sure that these settings are also compatible with the settings for the field status groups of the G/L account determined. The settings for the field status groups are made in Customizing for Financial Accounting (FI).

ACTIVATION

1. Check the settings for the account assignment category

2. Maintain according to the requirements of the account assignment categories