Auto Po creation is not working properly

[Former Member]

Hello Gurus

I am trying to create PO automatically by making GR.

Material has Auto PO flag on

Vendor has Auto PO flag on

Plant is asigned to Standard POrg

Standard Info record is avaliable for Vendor,MAterial, Plant and Standard Porg

When i give all the detials in MIGO it is showing the error Vendor field is mandatory even after giving Vendor detials in Partnet tab.

Error is M7018.

I checked in SE91 if the Message Class M7018 is having problem .. it says there is no message class set up.

I am using 4.7 .. did i miss something in settings please help me

Regards

Sameer

[Former Member]

Hi,

I was able to recreate your problem on our system but I couldn't get rid of the message no matter what I tried.

I almost gave up but then I decided to try the following and it worked for me.

Go to SPRO Materials management > Inventory management >Settings for enjoy transactions > settings for goods movements (MIGO) > field selection per movement type.

Then click on new entries and add an entry for the movement type that you are using (101?) and specify the vendor (LIFNR) and flag it as an optional entry.

This got me past that error message so please give it a try.

Steve B

[esther_hernanz]

Hello Sameer,

Make sure that you have followed the customizing steps detailed in the SAP Note 324517:

In Customizing "MIGO: Field Selection per Movement Type" enter field name LIFNR for movement types 101 and 161. The corresponding path is:

Materials Management

> Inventory Management and Physical Inventory

> Settings for Enjoy Transactions

> Settings for Goods Movements (MIGO)

> Field Selection per Mvt Type"

see here wether the entries:

101 - LIFNR

161 - LIFNR

have been created.

If not, please, create these two new entries and set both of them to 'Optional', then, re-test the system behaviour following the steps:

.- MIGO: Choose business transaction 'Goods Receipt' - 'Purchase Order' and movement type 101. Leave the field for the Purchase Order empty.

.- Click on 'non-ordered item' icon.

.- Enter all data in the item detail subscreen (material, quantity, plant, storage location - if needed - and vendor).

.- Check and post.

I hope this helps!

Esther

[Former Member]

Hi,

From what u said, I think u are trying to create GR w/o PO reference. Then u must use mvt. type 501 instead of 101.

regards

amhn

[Former Member]

Hi,

No, Movement 501 is GR WITHOUT PO.

This is a request for the GR with AUTOMATIC PO and so it can use 101 or 161 or any new movement types created that are similar to these two movement types.

The heading of the question states "AUTO PO creation not working"

I have proposed the solution and this works but we have yet heard back from the questioner as to if they have tried this yet.

Steve B

[Former Member]

Auto PO from GR and Auto PO from Reqs is diff. functionality

AutoPO from GR case you have to activate the movement type also for autopo

check your settings in OMJJ fo rmovement type detailsview and check the auto po field.

then try

[Former Member]

Sorry i forgot to write that i have checked for 101 and 161 the autopo flag on and used 101.

But still i get the same error.

Regards

Sameer

[Former Member]

HI,

But shouldn't you be entering the vendor number in the vendor tab (not partner)

Steve B

[Former Member]

Has the vendor been created for the standard purchasing org?

The system will be looking for the vendor data against this P org and if it can't find it then the vendor is invalid.

Steve B

[Former Member]

Ok, Now eventhough you have everything defeined but u don't give the vendotr how system will know which info should pickup

[Former Member]

Hi,

You didn't mention that your movement type was flagged for auto PO, have you checked this?

In SPRO - Materials management > Inventory management > Goods receipt > Create purchase order automatically

Steve B