Store a purchase requisition programmatically

[Former Member]

Hello,

We have a requierement that provides to store a purchase requisition programmatically, ie, without using any transaction.
It's to launch via an external application.

The solution that we thought about is to insert into EBAN table via a webservice using Java for example.

The problem is that we don't know the origin of each column value. (eg. is banfn incremental? Does it have a specific form?).

For example: Assuming the existance of a purchase requistion having the following infomation below:

1. Client : 300
2. materiel number : 0123456
3. base unit : UN
4. Plant : 09876
5. date of delivery : 28/01/2021

[Former Member]

You should never insert data into standard table directly, because it will have dependencies to other tables and so much business logic, validations are doing before creating a purchase requisition.

The only choice you have is to use BAPI

https://answers.sap.com/questions/3931804/how-to-create-pr-using-bapiprcreate.html

Ps: update ur tag to abap, this question is not related to abap restful programming model

[maheshpalavalli]

You should never insert data into standard table directly, because it will have dependencies to other tables and so much business logic, validations are doing before creating a purchase requisition.

The only choice you have is to use BAPI

https://answers.sap.com/questions/3931804/how-to-create-pr-using-bapiprcreate.html

Ps: update ur tag to abap, this question is not related to abap restful programming model

[Former Member]

Thank you very much for yor answer.
Is it possible to use an out of the box API (Restful or SOAP)?

[maheshpalavalli]

Malek Guenichi Current best practice is to create an odata service for it. I doubt if any out of box solution is available for it. Try this, it's a 2006 blog, not sure if it is even possible now:

https://blogs.sap.com/2006/09/12/creating-and-exposing-bapi-as-web-service-and-using-it-in-web-dynpr...

[Former Member]

To create a purchase requisition from an external application, I called the function module BAPI_REQUISTION_CREATE using the interface RFC (Remote Function Call).
I use Java language, so the library that I used is JCo.
Best regards.