How are requisitions transferred? - Intergraph Smart Materials - Version 10.1 - Administration & Configuration - Hexagon

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Under SAP, the procurement options are differentiated into purchase and stock take-out. The purchasing of material is started by means of a purchase requisition (SAP) and later accomplished by an order. A stock take-out on the other hand is started by a reservation. If the respective goods are in stock, they will be delivered from the store. If the respective goods are not available, the warehouse management will make out an order request addressed to purchasing department, but the delivery will be affected from the stock.

Drawing up a planning order in SAP makes it possible to generate purchase requisitions (SAP) or reservations from this planning order. However, in workflows, the planning order is located before a requisition or purchase requisition (SAP). Therefore, this method has the drawback that a great amount of the data necessary for the ordering, e.g. allocations, cannot be created. Besides, after the planning order has been created, it cannot be transformed into a reservation.

Intergraph chooses the creation of SAP purchase requisitions as the optimal link for Smart Materials requisitions. The purchase requisition (within SAP) is, like the requisition (within Smart Materials), the document to be filled in before ordering. It is possible to transfer all of the data created in Smart Materials and required in SAP.

As in the first part of the Smart Materials/SAP interface (material transfer), this happens by means of the transfer from IDOCs to SAP. The interface uses the standard -IDOC PREQCR01 for the transfer of requisition, creating a purchase requisition in SAP.

The disadvantage, that in standard SAP only orders can be created from purchase requisitions (SAP), can be compensated for by means of programming a mask within SAP (customized screen). This mask is designed to create reservations from purchase requisition positions.

In the process of realizing this functionality, Intergraph offers assistance with this, but it is not part of the delivered interface.