PO and PR release strategy

[Sevin]

Hi,

My client has the following requirement:

- every PR needs to be released (I create the PR release strategy)

- for POs created from the PR, no release necessary. But for POs without reference to PR, the POs need to be released (the assumption here is that all items of the PO will either be copied from the PR, or not - cannot be hybrid).

My original plan to do this was to create 2 PO document types and configure one document type to require a PR. this way, my PO release strategy would be based on the document type but i can't find a way to do this.

Any ideas how I can handle this situation?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Alas84

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

As the PO release is always at the header, a line item not have as reference to PR is not part of the standard release process.

There could be a business case for why a PO is created without a PR, so as a discipline have a PO document type with PR as a mandatory field and for this document type - do not map the release process.

For the second document type the PR is not mandatory and has an approval process.

Anyways - this document type with approval process should be limited only to certain parameters like

Purchase group

Material group for account assigned POs

further control authorization of the document type limiting it the buyers who create POs without release. So they can use POs without release where the PR is mandatory, while if they use the document type without release then their Pur group will be in the release strategy to trigger the approval.

Hope this helps

[Sevin · Accepted solution]

Thanks. This solved my issue.

[former_member210560]

Dear Alas84,

Yes, you can do this as you plan where differentiate it with document type for the PO.

a) Document type where requisition is require when create PO but you need

to use user exit to check if the requisition field is <BLANK>, and if blank prompt the user

or else error message will be issue. You may try to use user exit EXIT_SAPMM06E_016

=> this document type not relevant for release strategy

b) Document type with release strategy but not requisition field not required field in PO.

In the user exit, you may write the condition for document type.

Hope this will help,

ian, Wong Loke Foong