2518765 - Automatic creation of Purchase Info record in cloud

You would like to automatically create/update purchase info records in your public cloud environment.

SAP S/4HANA Cloud

Create a Purchase Order using the webgui tile “Create Purchase Order – advanced”.

In an On-Premise environment, there are customising options available to trigger the automatic creation of purchase info records from the creation of a purchase order.
This is covered in the SAP note 202173, in the cloud environment this customising is not available and cannot be set up through a configuraton point.

1. The feature of automatically updating/creating inforecords is also available in the cloud, in all editions except the professional services edition.
2. This can be achieved using the “Create Purchase Order – advanced” WebGUI tile and manually setting the InfoUpdate flag at item level.
   

 3- Since the reelase 2202CE the BADI Modify Purchase Order Item has been enhanced.

The Business Add-In (BAdI) MM_PUR_S4_PO_MODIFY_ITEM

Using this BAdI you can now change the field Indicator: Update Info Record (PURCHASINGINFORECORDUPDATECODE). The indicator Update Info Record is an optional parameter and the available values are:

With this BAdI you can use the optional importing parameter: PURCHASEORDERITEM_OLD.

This new parameter gives the option to update the flag thourgh the BADI logic and not only manually.

You can find more informaiton in the BADI documentation.

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