How to make cost centre field in Purchase Order as required field?

[Former Member]

Hello experts,

I was creating purchase order for UNBW type of material. According to my resources I need to enter cost centre details in account assignment tab in item details. However system prompts me to enter GL account number as a mandatory entry. How can I change this, making cost centre field as a required field? I tried to dig deep in SPRO but couldn't find appropriate settings. Please help.

Regards,
Makarand

[BijayKumarBarik]

Hi,

You are creating purchase order for material of UNBW type but in purchase order which account assignment category you are entering and based on account assignment category, you need keep entering cost object.

You can create purchase order (ME21N) for material of UNBW type with account assignment category K or P or N or E. In general, (for example) following cost object needed for account assignment category.
Account assignment category-----------Cost object
K ---------------------------------------------Cost Centre
P ---------------------------------------------WBS Element
N ---------------------------------------------Network
E----------------------------------------------Sales Order

You can use t.code:OME9 and keep cost object as required entry for Account assignment category. But during creation of purchase order, you need to enter Account assignment category, cost object and G/L account with material of your UNBW type

Regards,

Biju K

[ajitkumar]

You can do it in OME9. make it mandatory for account assignment K. Likewise you can suppress cost center for the account assignemnt you use for Plant maintannce or Internal order. so that people by mistake dont put cost center instead of he order number.

This is when PO is created with acc assignment

[JL23]

the cost center is mandatory in case of UNBW material orders.

You always have to enter the G/L account yourself if you did not anything to enable SAP to find the G/L account itself.

but posting to a cost center without posting to a G/L account is not possible in MM

[Former Member]

Hi

Under OME9 tcode did you check what is the field status maintained against Account assignment cat. "K" for the field cost centre ?? is it optional or Requried , change it accordingly to make the cost centre mandatory for account assignment category "K".

Thanks