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1926040 - You want to create Recurring Purchase Orders.

Symptom

You want to create a Purchase Order for a recurring expense such as telephone bill.

You can see a functionality to create a recurring Supplier Invoice but you cannot find a way or functionality to create a recurring Purchase Order that stays open from month to month.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign.

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the Supplier Invoicing work center.
  2. Go to the Recurring Invoices view.
  3. You can see this functionality in Supplier Invoice.
  4. Now go to the Purchase Requests and Order work center.
  5. No options to create Recurring Purchase Order.

Cause

The functionality is available only for Recurring Supplier Invoices. 

Resolution

Recurring Purchase Orders is a new requirement.

Feel free to post this new requirement on the influence forum for potential future development:

https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#/campaign/886

Keywords

Recurring Purchase Orders; , KBA , AP-PRP , Purchase Request Processing , How To

Product

SAP Business ByDesign 2308 ; SAP Business ByDesign 2405