2913747 - Lean Services in Procurement Item Category Enhanced Limit How to Guide and FAQ- SAP S/4HANA & SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud.

Use case examples where item category enhanced limits are used:

Procurement of Services has two sub categories of spend. Planned and Unplanned procurement of Services. There are several examples of Unplanned Procurement  – for eg.  Procurement of Lawyer services  - Procurement of Ad-hoc or breakdown Maintenance , etc.

“Unplanned procurment of services” are typically used when:

-       Buyer knows only the maximum budget they can allocate as spend on the service request.

-       Buyer doesn’t know the effort (qty) or procedures to complete the requested services.

-       Buyer trusts its preffered supplier to have the required subject matter expertise to provide the service.

-       Buyer knows a service category (Material Group).

-       Buyer knows when the service is needed (start and end dates).

-       The buyer may have a contract with its trusted supplier with agreed rates.

-       A preferred supplier is known and can be assigned by the buyer in a Work order or PS or requisition.

To map above business usecase of unplanned procurement, SAP provides the feature of Enhanced Limits in S/4HANA Procurement documents.

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