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This tutorial which is part of our SAP MM course talks about SAP Purchase
Requisition. You will learn what is a purchase requisition in SAP, what role does in
play in procurement processes, and how to create it.
SAP Purchase Requisition is a document created by SAP ERP during the requirement
determination phase. To understand the meaning and the use of SAP Purchase
Requisition, it is essential to understand the Procure to Pay business process and SAP
ERP Materials Management functionality.
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Companies acquire goods and/or services in order to meet their needs by purchasing them. These purchases are
happening in a series of activities named Purchase to Pay business process.
SAP has introduced SAP ERP software that is assisting companies in managing their daily work including the
Purchase to Pay process. SAP has therefore designed functionality to cover this entire Purchase to Pay process and
called it Materials Management.
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The Purchase to Pay process in Materials Management is based around a general cycle of actions called the
procurement cycle, which comprises a series of eight steps known as:
1. Determination of Requirement
2. Determination of Supplier Source
3. Vendor Selection
4. Purchase Order Processing
5. Purchase Order Monitoring
6. Goods Receipt
7. Invoice Verification
8. Payment processing
The Determination of Requirement is the first phase of the procurement cycle and the phase where SAP generates a
document called SAP Purchase Requisition.
As depicted on the figure below, the determination of requirement step starts the procurement cycle. It is a step at
which users or departments determine materials requirements manually or automatically using materials planning and
control. SAP Purchase Requisition can be defined as a procedural method by which users or departments can request
the purchase of goods or services, and it will contain information such as the material or service to be procured, a
required date of delivery, and a quantity. SAP Purchase Requisition is either manually created (directly created) or
automatically created (indirectly created).
This part describes the steps how a requisitioner will generate SAP purchase requisition by manually creating it.
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In order to do that, one can type the transaction code ME51N in command field.
Logistics > Materials Management > Purchasing > Purchase Requisition > Create
Then if not open already, one should press the button to display the items area of SAP purchase
requisition as depicted in the next screenshot. Some fields that are not visible can be viewed if the horizontal scrolling
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A purchase requisition can be created with a material master record or without it.
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SAP business processes use master data on a long-term basis. Centrally created, all applications and authorized users
can utilize it. It is therefore a common way to purchase a product or service that already has a material master record.
SAP purchase requisition for a material having a material master record will require a requisitioner to enter the
following information:
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Moreover, after entering the above information and pressing on Enter button, the requisition process will fill up by
default the information into some of the blank fields.
Let us explore some of the information requested by the purchase requisition screen. We will not explain all of them but
I am inviting you to use the F1 and F4 button to learn more about each field you want to know. The important fields are:
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The source determination that can be selected if there is a need for the system to carry out an
automatic source selection.
The account assignment category, which determines what type of accounting assignment data is required for
purchase requisition. It can be a cost center, a cost object, a general ledger account, and an asset
The plan and storage location that are entered whether the location where the materials are to be shipped to is
known.
This kind of requisition is created the same way as the requisition with a master record. However, as there is no
material master record for the good or service the following information will have to be entered:
In this case, it is essential to enter an account assignment category to direct the cost to a specific account. We will be
using U, which will direct the requisition to an unknown account. There are also other options:
After pressing Enter button, an error message in the form of a red mark on the item line (in the column Status) will
appear.
Error Icon
On the SAP status bar, an error message will be asking you to enter a valuation price under the valuation tab.
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Error Message
The valuation tab is appearing in a form under the following Item button.
Item Button
It is important to notice that during the creation of SAP purchase requisition with a material master record a similar form
was appearing and it was listing the item master record information on various tabs. In this case, there is no valuation
price.
The error message will disappear and the purchase requisition process will ready for the next step.
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Creation of SAP purchase requisition is finished by clicking on the save button to save the requisition in SAP
database and to receive the purchase requisition number that will be displayed on the SAP Easy Access status bar.
This action is the same for the two types (with and without material master record) of manually created SAP purchase
requisition that we discussed.
SAP purchase requisition is created automatically when it is generated by other SAP processes that include:
1. Production Order
2. Plan Maintenance Order
3. Project System
4. Material Planning
Let us briefly describe how SAP purchase requisition will be created in each of these processes.
Production Order
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SAP routing and the bill of materials (BOM) are determining how the production order is working. SAP routing is a
sequence of the operation that take place and the bill of materials (BOM) is the recipe leading to the production of the
final material. In the routing, an operation may need a material to be sent out for external processing service and the
bill of materials may call for a material that is a non-stock item. For both cases, SAP purchase requisition will be
created.
Maintenance order is created for plant maintenance operations on equipment at the plant. A maintenance order has a
list of operations that has to be performed. The operations give the maintenance user a systematic list of what need to
be done and the materials needed for each step. In the operation, they may be a need for a non-stock material and the
maintenance order may need an external operation. For both cases, SAP purchase requisition will be created.
Project System
In SAP project system, the network is an object consisting of a set of instructions that tell the project users what tasks
need to be performed, in what order, and by what date. A network will create SAP purchase requisition(s) for non-stock
materials and external services, if it is configured to allow creation of SAP purchase requisition as soon as it has been
released.
Materials Planning
The consumption-based planning module can create SAP purchase requisition based on its calculations.
SAP purchase requisition can be changed, displayed, closed or followed on by a function. The transaction codes
allowing this processing are:
Conclusion
SAP Purchase Requisition allows organizations to fulfill the following business processes:
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Without it, end users would be responsible for purchasing decision which can it turn lead a company to non-optimal
procurement.
Did you like this SAP MM tutorial? Have any questions or comments? We would love to hear your feedback in the
comments section below. It’d be a big help for us, and hopefully it’s something we can address for you in improvement
of our free SAP MM tutorials.
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Didier GK
July 20, 2017 at 1:50 pm
Really intetresting
But in the field “SAP Purchase Requisition Transactions” of this tutorial, it is mentioned ME54N as t-code to display
purchase requisition.
But isn’t it ME53N to display purchase requisition and ME54N to release PR?.
Cleo Isco
August 11, 2017 at 4:32 pm
Pratik Patel
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November 8, 2017 at 5:22 pm
Kindly share a process for Purchase Requisition > For Raw Material to Finished Product at Venor’s work.
Which Material is to be enter in Purchase Requisition, Raw Material or Finished Product Material.
For A Material which is going to be sent for vendor works for Some Activities (i.e Machining, Testing, etc.) then how this
is to be process?
Cleo Isco
November 9, 2017 at 1:25 am
Khada Lund
June 21, 2018 at 2:42 pm
Pyasi Choot
June 21, 2018 at 2:42 pm
Agreed…Yes it is..
Interesting. Given thorough process. Sill some screen shot would more help full.
Suhan
February 23, 2020 at 3:07 pm
Samar
February 26, 2020 at 10:10 am
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Please share the full workflow configuration for Purchase Requisition through SWDD…..
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