Materials Management: Procure to Pay

Technical Data

Technical name of the business function LOG_MM_CI_2

Type of business function Enterprise Business Function

Available as of SAP Enhancement Package 3 for SAP ERP 6.0

Technical usage Central applications

Application component Materials Management Purchasing (MM-PUR)

Directly dependent business function requiring Not relevant

activation in addition

This business function enables you to make your purchasing processes clearer and more efficient.
Personalized worklists and a user-friendly user interface make is easier to process and track all
purchasing processes. You can easily adapt the user interface to suit your requirements. This business
function enables you to automate the transactions of the entire procurement process. All of this reduces
the total cost of ownership, because you need to spend less on user training.

Prerequisites
You have installed the following components as of the version given:

Type of component Component Is only used for the following

functions

Software Component SAP_APPL 603

Business Intelligence SAP BW BI Content 7.0.2 Add-On

Content

Portal content As of Business Package for Buyer

1.3

You have implemented Basis note 1089724.

You must make the following Customizing settings:
„ For Business Package for Buyer, under Materials Management Purchasing Portal
„ For the BAdI "Change Price, Pricing Unit, Currency of Purchase Requisition Item", under Materials
Management Purchasing Business Add-Ins for Purchasing BAdI: Change Price, Pricing Unit,
Currency of Purchase Requisition Item

Features
In the Buyer portal role, the descriptions of the following work centers have changed:

Old Name New Name

Transaction processing Purchasing Documents

Vendor information Master Data for Services

Information on material Master Data for Materials

Services procurement Master Data for Services

New features are available in the following work centers:

Work center New feature

Service entry (new) „ You can enter planned and unplanned services.
„ You can process service entry sheets.

Goods receipt (new) „ You can enter and process goods receipts.
„ Directly from a list of purchasing documents for which you are expecting
goods receipts, you can create the goods receipt document.
„ From a list of goods receipt documents, you can trigger downstream
activities such as subsequent deliveries, return deliveries, and the creation
of invoices.
„ You can monitor the progress and status of all transactions.

Purchasing „ You can enter and process all procurement transactions, such as purchase
documents requisitions, purchase orders, contracts, scheduling agreements, and
(enhanced) requests for quotation.
„ You can monitor the progress and status of all transactions.
„ You can monitor critical dates, such as the expiry of contracts, and trigger
subsequent actions.
„ You can monitor unusual events, such as stopped purchase orders, and
trigger subsequent actions.

Invoice (new) „ You can enter and process invoice documents.

„ Directly from a list of purchasing documents for settlement, you can create
invoice documents.
„ From a list of invoice documents, you can trigger downstream activities such
as invoice release.
„ You can monitor the progress and status of all transactions.

Master data for „ You can create and process vendor master data.
vendors (enhanced) „ From a list of vendors, you can display a list of sources of supply and data
analyses for individual vendors.
„ Integrated analytics enables you to monitor all transactions that reference
vendors.

Master data for „ You can create and process material master data.
materials (enhanced) „ You can display info records and create new info records
„ From a list of materials, you can display a list of sources of supply, material
stocks, and stock requirements, and you can display and change new
material master data.
„ Integrated analytics enables you to analyse open material purchase order
values by product or price trend.

Master data for „ You can create service master data, model services specifications, and
services (enhanced) standard service catalogs.
„ From a list of services, you can display a list of sources of supply.

In addition to the new features in the work centers, the following new or changed applications are
available.
Document tracing (enhanced)
This gives you a quick overview of the document chains in a procure-to-pay process. With any document
in the process chain (for example, a goods receipt document), you can launch document tracing to display
an overview of all preceding documents and follow-on documents. You can navigate directly into individual
documents from the application.
Collective processing of purchase requisitions (new)
The application Collective Processing of Purchase Requisitions is a new Web Dynpro-based application
that essentially covers the scope of functions in the back-end transaction Assign and Process Purchase
Requisition (ME57). The following functions are available:
 „ Assign sources of supply to purchase requisitions. This involves assigning sources of supply to
individual requisition items.
„ Further Processing of Purchase Requisitions via the Assignment List. This involves the manual
creation of purchase orders or delivery schedule lines from a list of requisitions with assigned
sources.
„ Assign and process purchase requisitions . This involves assigning sources to listed purchase
requisitions and creating requests for quotation, purchase orders, and delivery schedule lines. (This
function is a combination of Assign Purchase Requisitions and Further Processing of Purchase
Requisitions via the Assignment List. You can also change order quantities and delivery dates.)
„ Create purchase orders from requisitions automatically . This involves having the system generate
purchase orders automatically from a list of purchase requisitions with assigned sources of supply
(see Automatic Generation of Purchase Orders from Requisitions.)
„ Create a bid invitation from a purchase requisition.
„ Send purchase requisitions to an external sourcing application (for example, SAP SRM).
Creation and processing of purchase requisitions (new)
The application Creation and Processing of Purchase Requisitions is a new Web Dynpro-based
application. The following functions are available:
„ Create purchase requisition with master record
„ Create purchase requisition without master record
„ Create purchase requisition using the referencing technique

Creation and processing of scheduling agreement releases (new)

The application Creation and Processing of Scheduling Agreement Releases is a new Web Dynpro-based
application. You can create and process scheduling agreement releases.
Service map (enhanced)
You can use the service map to navigate directly to all services and work centers. This also includes the
new services and work centers.
Business Add-In "Change Price, Price Unit, Currency of Purchase Requisition
Item"
Business Add-In (BAdI) Change Price, Pricing Unit, Currency of Purchase Requisition Item
(BADI_ME_PR_PRICE_CUST) is also available for purchase requisition items. You can use this BAdI to
change the price, pricing unit, and currency in certain purchase requisitions. You can use this BAdI for the
purchase requisitions:
„ Purchase requisitions from Advanced Planner and Optimizer (SAP APO)
„ Purchase requisitions that you can process using the following BAPIs:
„ BAPI_REQUISITION_CREATE
„ BAPI_REQUISITION_CHANGE
„ BAPI_REQUISITION_DELETE