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3597031 - Creating Purchase Requisition for Locked Material in Maintenance Order is not blocked in IW32

Symptom

  • When attempting to create a Purchase Requisition (PR) in a maintenance order for a material with a locked status, an informational message appears stating that procurement for the material is not allowed. 
  • Message:  "Material status is prohibiting external procurement" Message No. ME 053.
  • Despite the material being locked, it can still be saved under the "components" tab. However, the PR is not created.
  • The expectation is for an error message to be displayed and the material not to be saved under the components tab when trying to create a PR for a locked material.


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Environment

  • Plant Maintenance
  • S/4 HANA
  • SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition

Product

SAP ERP Central Component all versions ; SAP ERP all versions ; SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition all versions ; SAP S/4HANA all versions ; SAP enhancement package for SAP ERP all versions ; SAP enhancement package for SAP ERP, version for SAP HANA all versions

Keywords

Maintenance Order, Purchase Requisition, Locked Material, Material Status, External Procurement, ME053, OMS4, IW32 ME 053, MM03, B  Error message, Plant maint. message , KBA , PM-WOC-MO , Maintenance Orders , PM-WOC-MO-MAT , Stock material, bills of material, availability check , Problem

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