Procurement Restriction Using Material Statuses

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SAP provides functionality to maintain statuses at both material and size level to control usability of the material or ...

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Contents Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 2 Configuration Guide ...................................................................................................................................... 2 1. Define Sensitive fields ........................................................................................................................... 2 Master Data .................................................................................................................................................. 5 1. Change Material Master ....................................................................................................................... 5 Transactional Data ........................................................................................................................................ 6 1. Create Purchase Order .......................................................................................................................... 6

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Introduction SAP provides functionality to maintain statuses at both material and size level to control usability of the material or sizes. Once this functionality is activated, it can be used to control placing a sales order for material/size, purchasing the material/size or it can be sued merely as a status field for reporting. These status can be placed in different levels in the material master. Level Material Sales Org

Field Basic Data 1 - X-plant matl status Sales Org 1 - X-distr.chain status

Plant

MRP 1 - Plant-sp.matl status

Size

AFS Sales Data - Status

Usability Status applicable for entire material Status applicable for Sales Org/material (Sales Restriction) Status applicable for Plant/material (Procurement restriction) Status applicable for Sales Restriction

In this document we will discuss the configuration that needs to be in place for activating status control for material level for Procurement restriction.

Configuration Guide The following configuration needs to be setup before a material status can be used.

1. Define Sensitive fields IMG Path:

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You can create a custom status (example X1) and make the following settings based on the requirement to deactivate/restrict use for procurement.

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Under Purchasing Msg, select A or B depending on whether you want the restriction to be a warning or error message.

Note – You can control multiple parameters using the same status code by setting the indicators for BOMs, MRP and Inventory in the respective section.

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Master Data 1. Change Material Master Transaction: MM02 Status set on material master MRP 1 view.

Set the X1 status on the Plant material status field and save the material.

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Transactional Data 1. Create Purchase Order Transaction: ME21N Create a purchase order for the material that the status was set.

Error message shown above would appear restricting the user from entering the specific material on a purchase order. 6

Author: Malith Tharaka Perera E-Mail: [email protected] / [email protected] Website: www.learnsaptips.com View my profile in LinkedIn

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