Exploring SAP FIORI Applications for Substance Volume Tracking

With this app you can do the following:

• Create a purchase requisition by selecting a from the drop-down, view the same, edit or delete a purchase requisition based on its status at the header and item level.
  Note

  If the purchase requisition was created via the app Create Purchase Requisition, you can only edit existing items.
• Create purchase requisitions with the document type for creation of outline agreements as follow-on documents.
  Note

  The delivery date is not considered for such purchase requisitions.
• Add material, service and limits items to a purchase requisition. You can define an expected value and an overall limit for unplanned services and material that cannot be specified in detail at the time of ordering. The services and materials may be specified later in the service entry sheet and goods receipt creation when their price and quantity are recorded.
• Add items from catalog using cross-catalog search or by navigating to an external catalog.
• Copy an existing purchase requisition and create a new purchase requisition.
• Add items to a purchase requisition by copying one or more existing items.
  Note

  While copying the items, the attachments are not copied.

• Maintain Delivery Address of a purchase requisition item based on the Plant, Storage Location or User Entry

• Search for purchase requisitions based on different criteria, such as purchase requisition number, plant, purchasing group, purchasing organization, material group, and processing status.

• Display the processing status of purchase requisition items.

• Depending on the processing status of a purchase requisition item, you can create follow-on documents, such as contracts, RFQs, or purchase orders.

• Preview the follow-on documents that you created. You can also specify the required details on the preview screen when creating the follow-on documents. Note the following:

  • After you save a contract, you can maintain additional details using the Manage Purchase Contracts app. You can also investigate errors in a contract draft by navigating to the Manage Purchase Contracts app directly.

  • You can publish the RFQs and send them directly to the suppliers. If you use the sourcing process that is integrated with SAP Ariba Sourcing, then you can send the RFQs directly to SAP Ariba Sourcing. Additionally, if you want to make any changes to the RFQs before publishing them, you can choose to process the RFQs and make the required changes in the Manage RFQs app.

  Whether you can create one or several contracts depends on the purchasing organization and purchasing group associated with the selected purchase requisition items.

  Whether you can create one or several purchase orders depends on the supplier, purchasing organization, and purchasing group associated with the selected purchase requisition items.

• Assign sources of supply, such as purchasing info records, contracts, scheduling agreements, or suppliers, to the purchase requisition items

• Post the receipt of goods with reference to a purchasing document, for example, purchase order, which contains order items for stock material (procurement for stock).

• Post the receipt of goods with reference to a purchasing document, for example, purchase order, which contains order items that display single or multiple account assignments (procurement for direct consumption). With multiple account assignments, you can distribute the purchasing cost among different cost centers or projects.

• Post the receipt of goods with reference to vendor consignment stock.

• Post goods receipt of goods with reference to a scheduling agreement.

• Post the receipt of goods with reference to a purchasing document, for example, purchase order to the goods receipt (GR) blocked stock.

• Post the goods receipts for items (or return items), for example, create more than one material document. If an attachment is enclosed in a purchasing document.

• Post the goods receipt for order items with shelf life expiration date and production date. Before you post the goods receipt, the app supports a check of the shelf life expiration date.

• Display a stock overview of a single material.

• Compare the stock information with the safety stock and minimum safety stock values defined for the material.

• Detailed stock history for each plant or storage location for the last 11 periods (period-end closing) and the stock balance at the reporting date.

You can use this app to:

• You can check your sales order for missing data.
• You can create, change, and delete item-specific business partners.
• You can withdraw the approval request if your sales order is relevant for approvals and the approver hasn’t yet released or rejected the approval request or sent the sales order back for rework.
• You can display a log of all the changes made before somebody last saved the sales order.
• You can change item categories.
• You can filter and sort the item table.
• You can use enter instead of add row.

• Verify existing and requested countries and regions in which the product may be sold or produced.

• Add new countries and regions and delete the ones you've added.

• View the market assessment of the assigned countries/regions to help with verification.

• Verify the existing and requested compliance purposes that apply to the product.

• Add new compliance purposes and delete the purposes you've added.

• Assign an existing unpackaged product as the compliance view of a new product.

• Create a new unpackaged or packaged product as the compliance view of a new product.

• Save the request to hand it over to your compliance colleagues for assessment.

• Choose to assess the request yourself immediately after saving it.

• Define the compliance relevance of materials when it is undefined.

• Reject the request.

• Search for sales orders due for delivery using basic filter options. You can also search using additional filter options.

• Sort your table entries by ascending or descending and then select the filter option you want to sort by.

• Personalize your table columns.

• If a product has been marked as relevant for compliance in the product master data, the system performs marketability, dangerous goods, and safety data sheet checks for the corresponding outbound delivery. The results are displayed in the corresponding columns.

• Create outbound deliveries from sales orders with a limited number of items, or navigate to the Schedule Delivery Creation app to schedule the mass processing of sales orders.

• Display a log that provides you with information about the delivery run that you have created.

• Use theSave as Tile option to create a personalized tile on the launchpad. This tile will display a fixed snapshot of your current selection criteria. For example, if you filter by the date option Today, your personalized tile will only display the number of documents that are relevant for that specific day, as the current date selection is stored as a fixed date.

• Search for outbound deliveries using basic filter options. You can also search using additional filter options.

• Sort your table entries by ascending or descending and then select the filter option you want to sort by.

• Personalize your table columns.

• If a product has been marked as relevant for compliance in the product master data, the system performs marketability, dangerous goods, and safety data sheet checks for the corresponding outbound delivery. The results are displayed in the corresponding columns.

• Navigate to the Pick Outbound Delivery app to perform the picking step.

• Post goods issue for one or multiple outbound deliveries.

• Reverse goods issue postings for one or multiple deliveries.

• Use theSave as Tile option to create a personalized tile on the launchpad. This tile will display a fixed snapshot of your current selection criteria. For example, if you filter by the date option Today, your personalized tile will only display the number of documents that are relevant for that specific day, as the current date selection is stored as a fixed date.

• Enable picking for an outbound delivery item that does not have warehouse management assigned to it and does not contain items with batches.

• Assign serial numbers to delivery items in an outbound delivery.

• Manage deviations during or after picking.

• Delete a delivery.

• Post a goods issue.

• Reverse a goods issue.

• Display output items.

• Get an overview of the tracked substances and their aggregated volumes.

• Check the substances that need your attention sorted at the top of a color-coded list.

• Filter and sort the overview table for the aggregated substance volumes by various criteria and save your filter settings.

• View the aggregated substance volumes by month and scenario.

• View the material document items from which the substance volumes originate.

• Navigate to the Material Documents Overview app to see the complete flow of the business process documents.

• Update the aggregated volumes by initiating an on-demand calculation.