ME51N | Customize Purchase Requisition Settings

ME51N can be used to customize your Create Purchase Requisition screen to help make requisitioning more
efficient. For example, you can specify default information that you want to automatically populate in some
purchase requisition fields to reduce the amount of data entry required when creating purchase requisitions.
This document is organized into two sections:
 Customize Personal Settings
 Show Keys within Dropdown

Customize Personal Settings

This section explains how to specify default information that will automatically populate in purchase requisition
fields to reduce the amount of data entry required.
1. Enter ME51N in the Command field and press Enter.

2. Click .

The Personal Settings pop-up window opens.

3. Click the Default Values tab.

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4. Click .

The Change Layout pop-up window appears and shows a Display fields and Hidden fields columns. Display
fields are columns that appear in the Create Purchase Requisition screen, while Hidden fields do not.

5. Click beside the field that you want to appear or have hidden.

 If you want a hidden field to appear, click to add it to the Display fields.

 If you want a display field to hide, click to make it a hidden field.

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It is recommended that you display the following fields and specify , to reduce the amount of data entry
required when creating purchase requisitions:
 Source Determination
 Plant
 Acct Assignment Cat.
 Requisitioner

6. Click .

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The Default Values tab now shows the Display Fields you selected. In this example, Source Determination,
Plant, Acct Assignment Cat., and Requisitioner were selected.
7. Complete the fields to specify automatic entries. In this example:
 Select the Account Assignment Category you will most frequently use from the Acct AssCat dropdown.
 Enter your plant number in the Plant field.
 Enter your SAP User ID in the Requisitioner field.
 Click the Source Determination checkbox to select it (checked).
 Ensure all Always propose checkboxes are deselected (unchecked).

8. Click .

You return to the Create Purchase Requisition screen. The Display Fields you selected display as columns. Any
default information that you saved is now automatically populated in each field for the column(s).

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Show Keys Within Dropdown
This section explains how to show the SAP Key names for purchase requisition document types in the Document
Type drop-down.

1. Click and select Options from the drop-down.

Purchase requisition
Document Type drop-down.

The SAP GUI Options window opens.

2. Double-click the Interaction Design folder to expand it.
3. Click Visualization 1.

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Under the Controls area,
4. Click the following checkboxes to select them (checkmarks should appear in both checkboxes):
 Show keys within dropdown lists
 Sort by keys within the dropdown lists for most efficient keyboard input
5. Click Apply.
6. Click OK.

The SAP Key is now listed beside the purchase

requisition document type within the Document Type
drop-down.

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