The Procurement Confirmation Wizard
The Procurement Confirmation Wizard is used primarily when companies procure items specifically to fulfill sales demand.
The wizard assists you in automatically creating procurement documents: Purchase Request, Purchase Quotations, or Purchase Orders. And also, for Production Orders. These are the Target documents of the wizard.
Directly from one or selected sales documents: Sales orders or Sales Quotations. As well as Production order. These are the base documents of the wizard.
With the option to include part or all items from the base documents.
A typical scenario for using the wizard will be when a company receives a Sales Order for items that are:
- Not in stock
- Not produced internally
- Typically purchased from suppliers
You want the system to automatically:
- Analyze shortages
- Propose purchase quantities
- Generate purchase orders for the required items
How to Create Purchase Orders from Sales Orders with the Procurement Confirmation Wizard
This video will show you how the warehouse chief of OEC Computers uses the Procurement Confirmation Wizard to automatically generate procurement documents to fulfill sales orders received from a VIP customer.
For more details and for the ‘creating procurement documents from production orders’ scenario refer to the Procurement Confirmation Wizard | SAP Help Portal.
Summary
The Procurement Confirmation Wizard:
- Automates procurement document creation from sales orders or production orders, eliminating manual data entry and reducing errors.
- Analyzes inventory shortages and proposes purchasing quantities for items not in stock or typically purchased from suppliers.
- Links procurement documents to originating sales orders automatically, maintaining complete traceability visualized through the Relationship Map feature.
- Supports flexible vendor selection by automatically assigning preferred vendors or allowing manual selection from all available vendors.
