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Display Cost Center description in Purchase Requisition / Purchase Order

Per Standard SAP, Cost Center description will not appear in the Purchase Requisition or Purchase Order but there might be instances where the business user wishes to display cost centre description when cost centre is maintained at PR or PO level. Below configuration settings need to be performed to achieve this. 1. Goto T.Code OXK1 - Maintain coding block subscreens : Overview Create a customer subscreen starting with 9*  will all the fields in account assignment screen. System ideally fetches the screen no which matches with all the fields. So in the below case I am creating a subscreen with the all the necessary account assignment fields and generate the screen. Enable Text field for cost centre. Business Process: Create an account assignment purchase order and you could notice that cost centre description getting displayed.

Create Purchase Order automatically from Goods Receipt for an unscheduled delivery.

At times, business requires creating a PO automatically upon goods receipt. Below are the settings needs to be done to accomplish this requirement. Config Settings: Maintain Auto PO check at Movement Type level. : Master Data Settings: Maintain Auto PO enabled at Vendor Master Data Level. Business Process: 1.        Perform Goods receipt using Movement Type 101         Enter Material, Plant, Vendor and other required details during Goods Receipt.          Perform Goods Receipt and then go to the display to display mode to view PO details.                    PO details would appear in the Purchase Order Data Tab of MIGO Screen.                 

Restricting PO from getting created without reference to PR

There might be situations where business require user to restrict PO creation if PR doesn't exist. This can be done at functional authorization level. Step 1 : Goto SPRO --> Purchasing ----> Authorisation Management Step 2: Uncheck W/O reference and check Ref to Purchase Requisition Step 3: Assign Parameter ‘EFB’ to business user Now if you try to create  Purchase Order without referring to Purchase Requisition then below error will be displayed.