Creating Direct Materials

Suppliers and buyers often collaborate in the creation of purchase order, invoices, and ship notices for direct-material orders. This collaboration requires the exchange of information specific to direct material orders. SAP Business Network facilitates the collaboration process by allowing more detailed descriptions of materials being procured. This feature also allows suppliers to perform order collaboration through SAP Business Network user interface. This is particularly helpful for suppliers that do not have EDI, cXML, or other integrated business-to-business mechanisms in place.

Note that direct materials include all items, such as raw materials and parts, required to assemble or manufacture a complete product.

Suppliers and buyers often collaborate in the creation of purchase orders for direct-material orders. This collaboration requires the exchange of information specific to direct material orders. This feature facilitates the purchase order collaboration process by allowing more detailed description of materials being procured. This feature also allows the supplier to perform order collaboration through SAP Business Network user interface. This is particularly helpful for suppliers that do not have EDI, cXML, or other integrated business-to-business mechanisms in place.

The purchase order header displays shipping data, and purchase order line items display retail details and product details. The following section and fields appear in the purchase order header.

• Requested Delivery
• Earliest Delivery
• Latest Delivery
• Goods Pick Up

This section may include any number of fields of contact information, such as fields labeled manager, accountStatus, or accountID. However, SAP Business Network automatically formats the field label for a contact person to Contact Person.

• Promotion Deal ID
• Promotion Variant ID
• Product EAN/UPC
• European Waste Catalog ID

This section may include any number of fields of product details, such as fields labeled weight, style, or volume. However, SAP Business Network automatically formats the field labels for eight common characteristics, as follows:

• Size, Size Code
• Quality, Quality Code
• Grade, Grade Code
• Color, Color Code

The Customer Part #, Revision Level, and Customer Location fields appear as table column headers in the following locations, starting from an open purchase order:

• Order Details
• Create Order Confirmation＞Update Line Items＞Update Item Status
• Create Order Confirmation＞Confirm Entire Order＞Confirm Entire Order
• Create Order Confirmation＞Confirm Entire Order＞Review Order Confirmation
• Order History
• Create Ship Notice, in the Order Items area of the summary page.