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1762482 - How Purchase Orders are Created Automatically

Symptom

After receiving demand for a product you have run the MRP(Material Requirement Planning) for it. The system has created purchase proposals and you have released the proposal to generate the purchase request.

Now, when you again open the product planning details screen and check for the purchase request ID, you could see that the system has created purchase order for it.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the Supply Planning work center.
  2. Select the Products view.
  3. Select the product ID and choose Open button.
  4. You could see that the system has created Purchase Orders IDs.

Cause

In the Purchase Requests and Orders work center, under Common Tasks as you have defined the option Automatic Creation of Purchase Orders for all the product categories, the system has created the purchase orders automatically after receiving the purchase request in the work center.

Resolution

The system is behaving as designed.

See Also

Keywords

 MRP, Purchase Orders, Purchase Proposals, Purchase Request , KBA , purchase request creation , AP-SDM , Supply and Demand Matching , How To

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions