What’s New in Purchase Requisitions – SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2302

Hi Friends, let us take a look at some of the exciting features in purchase requisitions for the release SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2302.

Application for Self-Service Procurement – Modernized Version

The modernized version of the My Purchase Requisitions app is the successor of the existing Create Purchase Requisition and My Purchase Requisitions apps. The modernization of the app is in line with the need to keep up with the Fiori guidelines and adoption of Fiori Elements in our user interface.

Here is a short video that introduces you to the application.

As you can see, the application makes it easier for you to create and manage your purchase requisitions. With the enhanced usability of this application, and with the default values maintained in the Default Settings for Users application, you can now perform the requisitioning process more efficiently and effectively.

For more details, see My Purchase Requisitions – New

Add New Approval Steps

You, as a purchaser, or an approver, can edit the Approval Details section of a purchase requisition or item, and add new approval steps using the applications Manage Purchase Requisitions – Professional, My Inbox or Edit and Approve Purchase Requisition.

View Carbon Footprint of Material while Selecting the Source of Supply

You, as a purchaser, can view the carbon footprint of a material while selecting the source of supply for a purchase requisition item using the Manage Purchase Requisitions – Professional application. The carbon footprint of a material for a source of supply is calculated based on the value maintained in Product Footprint Management.

Add Attachments at Header Level

As a purchaser, you can use the Manage Purchase Requisitions – Professional app to add GOS attachments (Generic Object Services) at the header level of a purchase requisition.

Filter Requisitions using ‘Created By’ Criterion

As a purchaser, you can use the Manage Purchase Requisitions – Professional app to filter purchase requisitions using the Created By filter criterion.

Account Assignment Details

As an approver, you can navigate into all the account assignment details from the table view in the item details page of the My Inbox and Edit and Approve Purchase Requisition applications.

Extensibility: View Additional Fields in Delivery Address

As a purchaser, you can view additional fields such as CareOfName, Building, Floor etc. in the Delivery Address section. The additional fields in the Delivery Address section are available only through the Adapt UI option.

Extensibility: Enhancements in Business Add-Ins for Purchase Requisitions:

BAdI Name	Enhancement	Invoked in the Context of
Check of Draft Item of a Self-Service Purchase Requisition	You can perform validation checks on the accounting details of existing accounting lines in a purchase requisition item. The importing parameter PURCHASEREQNACCASSGNMTCHECK that contains the accounting details of a purchase requisition item has been added.	My Purchase Requisitions Create Purchase Requisition
Change of Draft Item of a Self-Service Purchase Requisition	You can modify the accounting details of existing accounting lines in a purchase requisition item. The importing parameter PURCHASEREQNACCASSGNMT_TABLE and changing parameter PURCHASEREQNACCASSGNMTCHNG that contain the accounting details of a purchase requisition item have been added.	My Purchase Requisitions Create Purchase Requisition
Change of Field Control for Purchase Requisitions	You can influence the field control properties of a limit item. To support the same, the following fields have been added to the importing parameter PURCHASEREQUISITIONITEM: EXPECTEDOVERALLLIMITAMOUNT, OVERALLLIMITAMOUNT, MULTIPLEACCTASSGMTDISTRIBUTION, PURCONTRACTFOROVERALLLIMIT and SERVICEPERFORMER	My Purchase Requisitions Create Purchase Requisition Manage Purchase Requisitions – Professional My Purchase Requisitions – New
Setting of Default Delivery Address of Self-Service Purchase Requisition	You can now assign the address type as Storage Location and set the storage location as the default delivery address of a purchase requisition item. The importing parameter DETERMINEADDRESSATTRIBUTES has been enhanced with storage location. The changing parameter PURCHASEREQUISITIONITEMADDRESS has been enhanced with the following additional attributes: CareOfName, POBox, Building, Floor, RoomNumber, PhoneNumber, FaxNumber, BusinessPartnerName3, BusinessPartnerName4, FullName and POBoxPostalCode.	My Purchase Requisitions Create Purchase Requisition My Purchase Requisitions – New Note Address type Storage Location is valid only in the context of My Purchase Requisitions – New app.

An additional field isadhocstep that indicates whether the workflow step has been added via the Manage Workflow Instances app or not, is added to the parameter STEPINFO in the BAdIs for flexible workflow – Determination of Workflow Agents for Purchasing Documents and Enhancement of Flexible Workflow Properties.

New CDS Views for Purchase Requisitions

Two new CDS views have been added:

Change Doc Items for Purchase Requisitions (I_PurchaseReqnChgDocItmAPI01)
Change Documents for Purchase Requisitions (I_PurchaseReqnChgDocAPI01)

These CDS views are used to read the administration data of change documents if a purchase requisition or item is changed.

Situation Scenario for Purchase Requisition

A new object-based situation scenario PROC_PURCHASEREQNITEM is now available in the app Manage Situation Scenarios. You can create situation templates for various use cases based on this scenario. For more details, see Situation Scenario.

Enhancements in OData APIs for Purchase Requisition

With the APIs API_PURCHASEREQUISITION_2 and API_PURCHASEREQUISITION_PROCESS_SRV, you can now update rejected purchase requisition items and items that have a follow-on document created. The status gets changed to In Release and is resubmitted for further processing.

Enhancements in Configurations for Purchase Requisitions

As a configuration expert, you can delete requisitioning groups using the configuration Maintain Requisitioning Groups in the Manage Your Solution app.