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Author's profile photo Mohamed Hasan Rifaie M

Purchasing Document Adjustment

Introduction:

Purchasing document adjustment functionality helps to re-price the purchase order, whenever its corresponding valid source condition records gets updated. Valid source includes Info records, Purchasing contracts or other independent condition records. This article will explain key activities related to the new process implementation of purchasing document adjustment.

Sources of Purchasing:

Business normally uses Info records or purchasing contracts to maintain agreed prices with vendors apart from individual condition records based on vendors.

Challenges:

Price update for open purchase orders – Lots of manual activity, Such as extract open PO’s and update price for each purchase orders manually using purchase order change transaction codes

Purchasing Document Adjustment:

SAP has provided a standard transaction code MEI1 to update latest price from Info record or Contract. A set of prerequisite configuration (of course it needs Authorization too) is required to make use of this transaction code. Otherwise user will end up getting the following error

Key configuration:

IMG > Materials Management > Purchasing > Conditions > Automatic Document Adjustment > Direct Entry for Creating Worklist > Activation of the Direct Entry for Creating the Worklist

Set Direct entry indicator for the Purchase order document category (01) by using Program “RMEBEMIG” before completing activation of the Direct Entry worklist configuration.

IMG > Materials Management > Purchasing > Conditions > Automatic Document Adjustment > Control Document Adjustment > Control Purchasing Document Adjustment

The priority for the source for the price change:

1.) Contract

2.) Info record

Optional Configuration:

IMG > Materials Management > Purchasing > Conditions > Automatic Document Adjustment > Activate Change Pointer for Message Category CONDBI

Process to update Price for Open Purchase order:

Open purchase order is the one which does not have goods receipt posted. Transaction MEI1 will pick the list open purchase orders whenever its corresponding valid info record or contract  price gets changed.

The following activities needs to be completed before executing MEI1.

Set “Doc. Index active”

Select “Price date Category” (Mandatory, other than PO creation date)

MEI3 – Recompilation of document index

With this, entries for the open purchase orders will be updated to the index table.

Two Step Control Process:

With this process, first worklist will be created for the price change before processing the transaction MEI1. Note, Direct entry indicator for the Purchase order document category (01) needs to be deactivated by using Program “RMEBEMIG”.

Conclusion:

This article explained configuration settings and process steps required to process open purchase orders for price update from Contract/Info record. In case of any queries and clarifications requesting the aspirant consultants to contact the author without any hesitation.

Mohamed Hasan Rifaie M, a Lead consultant at Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd (LTI) with overall 18 years experience, out of which around 12 years in SAP P2P, WM, SCM, SRM, Ariba Integration and exposure in to Utilities, Media, Food/Chemical, Pharma industries. He has business experience in Manufacturing, Electro-mechanical and Process industries as a Procurement Executive.

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      Author's profile photo Jean-Marc GARCIA
      Jean-Marc GARCIA

      Hello Mohamed,

      Thank you for this document that give all keys to activate and use this functionality.

      I have one question that you may have some clue.

      Using the direct approach, no entry is created in the worklist (table WIND) when a modification is done on the supplementary condition, whereas using change pointer the same change create an entry (after the launch of MEI4). Is it normal to not have the same behavior?

       

      Best regards,

      Vincent

      Author's profile photo SANJAY MOHANTY
      SANJAY MOHANTY

      Thank you so much. Nice Blog

      Author's profile photo Anray lal
      Anray lal

      Sir,

      Can you please post any test case for this?

      Anray

      Author's profile photo David Turcotte
      David Turcotte

      Hello Mohamed,

      Can we get this to work with STO's?

      Thanks

      DVD

      Author's profile photo Andrea Hotova
      Andrea Hotova

      Dear Mohamed, dear all

      I have configured the system for Direct Creation of Worklist Entries - table WIND.

      I think everything is set properly and for purchase orders it works fine.

      LFM1-BLIND - set

      T6I2-BLTYP=01 Purchase order/Scheduling agreement, WIND_DIR=X, WIND_MIG=X

      T6I1 set as follow:

      MANDT BLTYP KVEWE KAPPL KZAEH KSCHL KOTABNR KOHER
      001 01 A M 1 PB00 018 2
      001 01 A M 2 ZME3 045 2
      001 01 A M 3 PB00 016 2
      001 01 A M 4 PB00 068 2


      But if a new scheduling agreement is created no entry in the Table S111 is created. The new entries are created for purchase orders only.

      Does anyone have a similar experience?

      Thank you in advance

      Author's profile photo Daniel Pfeil
      Daniel Pfeil

      Same experience. Does somebody still have an idea?

      table T6I1

      01 A M 10 PB00 016 2
      01 A M 20 PB00 017 2
      01 A M 30 PB00 018 2
      01 A M 40 PB00 068 2

      Thanks.

      Daniel

      Author's profile photo Muthu Govindasamy
      Muthu Govindasamy

      Hello Hasan

       

      thanks. It works for me only one record (1st) to update the amended price in the PO. 2nd record onwards not updating.

      user xxx already processing contract 46**

       

      Any workaround to update all the POs at one shot

       

      Thanks

      Muthu

      Author's profile photo Muthu Govindasamy
      Muthu Govindasamy

      now it works -direct data base changes per purchasing (sync update)-enable option