"Will Advise" Purchase Orders

[Former Member]

Hi Everybody,

Is there a way by which we can send a "Will advise" kind of Purchase Order when you don't know the price to go on the PO. To give an example, when you send a vehicle for service, you really don't know what to put on the PO. When the actual numbers come in from the service center, we want to change the PO.

One way to handle this is by creating a PO with $0.01 value and then change the PO when value is known. Is there a better way to handle this kind of situation in SAP?

Share your thoughts

Thanks

[Former Member]

Hi

Try creating a RFQ(request for quotation) asking vendor price regarding your requirement. Referring to RFQ , vendor sends Quotation based on quotation you can create a purchase order so that all details including price will flow from Quotation to purchase order.

to create RFQ tcode is ME41

To create VENDOR QUOTATION(ME47)

to create po t code is me21n

hope it helps

[Former Member]

Since there will be lots of POs of this nature, RFQ process is not suitable. Looks like the process I mentioned earlier with a 1cent PO seems to be the most feasible.

[Former Member]

Hi

option you thought may be good but if we forget to change the price then recognised after some time what happens to accounts and all. they dont get baanced.

hope it helps

[Former Member]

Why dont you sent without the reference to PO and when Goods recieved back you can generate Automatic PO on Goods Reciept...I am just suggesting....Please let me know if it is a wrong way.............

[Former Member]

May be I need some clarification on

"Why dont you sent without the reference to PO and when Goods recieved back you can generate Automatic PO on Goods Reciept"

Do you mean

- Don't send PO ( I am not sure what will be the communitcation for the vendor to act upon. He needs some document such as a PO to act upon)

- At GR time Auto generate a PO with the actual value?

Thanks

[araksa]

I have the same issue here. If someone knows a better practice on this. I will be much appreciated.