The SAP Materials Management Handbook

Chapter 8

SAP MM Customizing—Purchasing

Introduction

In SAP, procurement or purchasing is one of the two main functions available in SAP materials management (MM) along with inventory management. The purchasing part of SAP MM consists of purchase requisitions (PRs), purchase orders (POs), contracts, scheduling agreements, and so on.

Document types of all the documents (PRs, POs, contracts, etc.) can be customized as per customer needs in many ways. Similarly, the material masters included in SAP MM purchasing (vendor, info records, source lists, purchase organization, purchasing group, etc.) can also be customized as per customer needs. In this chapter, we discuss most of the customizations that can be done.

This chapter consists of the hierarchy ...