SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

3601751 - How to auto populate Valuation type in Purchase Order

Symptom

  • The valuation Type of the purchase order is not automatically fetched from the stock master data.
  • This issue is causing a delay in the process as the valuation class needs to be manually entered for each purchase order.
  •  Warning appears 'In case of split valuation, please enter a valuation type' , but its does not allow to save the item.

Environment

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Create a purchase order in the system.
  2. Go to 'delivery' Tab of item details 
  3. Observe that the valuation type is not automatically fetched from the stock master data.

Cause

The system is not configured to automatically fetch the valuation type when creating a purchase order.

Resolution

 In App ' IMG activities'

Materials Management>>Valuation and Account Assignment>>Split Valuation>>Configure Split Valuation>>Global categories

Select the Valuation category that is maintained in the material master under  'costing2' tab ( The Material  used in the PO item)

Click on  button 'Types->cat.'

maintain the valuation type to be defaulted in PO  and activate the same

Keywords

Valuation class, Purchase order, Stock master data, SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, Fiori UI for Stock and Goods Movements, Automatic fetching, Error message, Manual entry.Valuation Area, valuation type, automatically determine, Valuation type from material master , KBA , MM-FIO-IM-SGM-2CL , Fiori UI for Stock and Goods Movements (Public Cloud) , Problem

Product

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition all versions