Purchase schedules - additional processes

To have a proper insight in all procurement costs, not only the purchase price, but also landed costs can be linked to a purchase schedule line.

You can define additional information fields. Their content is transferred from the purchase push schedule via the purchase release to the blanket warehousing order in Warehousing. For more information, refer to Additional information fields in Procurement.

If the Material Pricing in Procurement check box is selected in the Material Price Parameters (tcmpr0100m000) session, after setting up the material pricing master data, LN can retrieve material price information and calculate material prices for a purchase schedule line.

Linked material price information can be viewed in the Material Price Information (tcmpr1600m000) session.

For more information, refer to Material price information – purchase schedules.

An optional step in the purchase order procedure is to print purchase invoices in the Print Purchase Invoices (tdpur4404m000) session. These invoices are used to compare the data in your system with the data (invoices) you get from the buy-from business partner.

Project costs can be pegged to push schedules. If the item on the push schedule requires a peg, a peg distribution must be linked to the schedule line. In a peg distribution, the required quantity of the parent business object is distributed across distribution lines for combinations of project/budget, project element and/or project activity.

For more information, refer to Project pegging in Procurement.

If price changes are made to a purchase contract or to an item because of price renegotiations, the retrobilling functionality can be used to re-invoice previously invoiced items for purchase schedules. Price differences are handled through price change advice lines, which are based on the purchase payable receipts of the schedule. After approving and processing a price change advice line, an additional (retro-active) payable receipt line is generated for the schedule.

For more information, refer to Retrobilling in Procurement.

If you want to use consigned inventory in the purchase schedule procedure, you can specify how consigned inventory is handled.

For more information, refer to Consignment in Sales and Procurement.