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SAP ERP - Logistics Materials Management (SAP MM)

SAP EHP 5 New Procurement Functionalities business function LOG_MM_CI_3

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Posted by Devi S in SAP ERP - Logistics Materials Management (SAP MM) on Mar 13, 2012 5:25:36 AM
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In this blog, we will discuss only about most commonly used enhancement package 5
for Procurement business function LOG_MM_CI_3 which offers customers
greater long-term value and an easier methodology.
Activation of business function using SFW5 transaction
postpost

After activation, we will be able to see a) Park Button

b) Templates button
d) blocking reason

c) Document Flow Indicator

e) Retail (required only for IS-Retail) in PR & PO.

Park Button:

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Use : We can park and hold purchase orders and purchase requisitions for materials and services:
Holding of Purchasing Documents : Creating a purchasing document with missing information at that point in time,
or may be interrupted when creating the document. In this case, we can still put, for example, an incomplete purchase
order on hold,
and finish it at a later point in time before saving.
Parking of Purchasing Documents : If we want to create a purchasing document, the document may be complete
from
the materials management point of view, but some financial information may still be missing at that point in time (FI
view).
In such cases, we can then provisionally save (park) the purchasing document and continue processing it at a later point
in time
before saving.
This function is available in the following transactions:

Create Purchase Order (ME21N) and Change Purchase Order (ME22N)

Create Purchase Requisition (ME51N) and Change Purchase Requisition (ME52N)

Pushbuttons for park and hold have been added to the user interface. The visibility of these pushbuttons
depends on the processing stage of the purchasing document. If we want to exit the creation process before it
is finished, we can choose the relevant pushbutton, and the system saves accordingly.

Configuration Path to activate Park & Hold button :

Public Templates in Purchase Orders and Requisitions (New)

Use : We can create purchase requisitions and purchase orders more efficiently by using templates. We can use the
following functions:

Create, use, and delete user-specific templates

Create, use, and delete public templates, which are available to all users

We can use entered data as a template without having to save the document first. From the templates we
create, we can copy either header and item data or only item data to a purchasing document.

This function is available in the following transactions:

Create Purchase Order (ME21N) and Change Purchase Order (ME22N)

Create Purchase Requisition (ME51N) and Change Purchase Requisition (ME52N)

In these transactions, there are two additional pushbuttons: Save as Template and Load from Template. To

create templates that are available to all users, we need the appropriate authorizations (authorization object
Create/Change/Delete Public Templates M_TEMPLATE).
Note : When we copy a user, the user-specific templates of the user we are copying are also copied to the new user

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master record.

Entering of Blocking Reasons in Purchase Orders (New)

Use We can save the reasons for blocking a purchase order item in purchase orders.

In Customizing for Materials Management, we can create various blocking reasons with language-dependent
texts, which are available in a dropdown box when we block purchase orders. When we block a purchase order
item, we can select a suitable blocking reason in the item details. We also define in Customizing whether the
text for a blocking reason ID can only be copied unchanged, or whether we can overwrite the text with our own
reason. If we overwrite the text for a blocking reason ID in the purchase order, we lose the language
dependency.
Effects on Existing Data:

In the transactions ME21N (Create Purchase Order), ME22N (Change Purchase Order), ME23N (Display
Purchase Order), and ME29N (Release Purchase Order), there are new fields for selecting and displaying a
blocking reason when blocking purchase order items. The system displays the following fields for blocked
purchase order items in the item details on the Purchase Order History tab page:
Blocking reason ID (BLK_REASON_ID)
Blocking reason text (BLK_REASON_TXT)
Blocking Reason Config Path:

PO Item Level Screen:

Use :

Extended Document Flow in MM and SD Documents (New)

We can display all the related purchasing and sales documents in purchase requisitions, purchase orders,
inbound deliveries, and outbound deliveries with the business function Materials Management - Enhancements
in Procurement (LOG_MM_CI_3),
In the item overview, we can use the new pushbutton Extended Document Flow. This pushbutton enables us
to display purchasing and sales documents that are related to the selected purchasing or sales item. For
example, we can display the sales documents related to a purchase requisition or purchase order item, or the
purchasing documents related to delivery items. We can only call the extended document flow for deliveries
that reference a purchase order.

Effects on Existing Data

In the item overview of the following transactions, we can use the new pushbutton Extended Document Flow:

ME52N and ME53N for changing and displaying purchase requisitions

ME22N and ME23N for changing and displaying purchase orders

VL02N and VL03N for changing and displaying outbound deliveries

VL32N and VL33N for changing and displaying inbound deliveries

Document flow example:

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Important Side-effects note:

1653977 - ME22N - AM 250 Address errors when creating new items

1625040 Template Selection for Purch. not possible

1602965 - MAA2: Commitment, VL09 VL622, and serial numbers (Side effect note : Note 1667310 - MAA2: Short

dump when releasing GR blocked stock w/ MIGO 105)

1563462 - ME21n: Activating allocation table fields in retail tab to remove retail tab:
For more info:
http://service.sap.com/erp-ehp

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11 Comments
sap sd 2011 Mar 25, 2012 7:53 AM

The information was really useful.

can you please tell some new functionality related to sd also.
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jeethendiran r Jul 16, 2012 3:47 PM

this information is very useful.thank you for sharing.

request you to post more info about the various enhancement packages and their functionalities if
possible.
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Sanjeev Shrivastava Jul 19, 2012 8:22 AM

very good content. I appreciate.

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UPESH KHAIRNAR Aug 9, 2012 2:06 PM

Good one....
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Vijay Penukonda Oct 24, 2012 4:55 AM

Good piece of Info. Devi, Do you have any info on LOG_MMFI_P2P EHP 4.Trying to resolve The
posting keys necessary for account determination for transaction EGX have not been set error.
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Devi S Oct 30, 2012 6:09 AM (in response to Vijay Penukonda)

Hi Vijay,
Thanks.
Have you refered the OSS note - Note 1622433 - FAQ: Down payment clearing as of Release
ERP 6.0 EhP4?
Regards,
Devi
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Devi S Oct 30, 2012 6:12 AM (in response to Vijay Penukonda)

Check OSS note Note 1557261 - MIRO: Msg M8318, down payment clearing at item level
too.
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Santosh Kulkarni Mar 28, 2013 11:35 AM

Dear Experts,
We have activated same business function in Mock server ,tested in mock and found it is ok. So
Want to know any other impact if we active same business function from April-2013
to Dev & Production.
pl suggest - < removed by moderator>
Thanks & Regards.
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Kalaiyarasan M May 13, 2013 4:07 PM

Hi,
Good work, keep posting such blogs.
Cheers/Kalai.
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shailesh kurdukar May 14, 2013 5:54 AM

Good one. Thanks for sharing.

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Jay Hoffman Oct 11, 2013 7:44 PM

Hi - could you please comment or post some info on security settings required to see/use the PO
template functionality? Are there any other tricks to getting this working?
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