reason codes for PO changes

[Former Member]

Dear SAP professionals,

could you, please, help me. I want to create the reason codes that should be used by buyers while making the changes to the orders(quantities, delivery dates and etc) is it possible? As we face a lot of delays and want to track them according to what was the reason for delay(wrong engineering specification, supplier fault and etc. ) Can  you give some tips, does it require any big changes? Can we do it at plant level?

Thank you in advance!

best regards

[former_member213924]

Hi,

You can use version management to capture changes done in PO with the reasons of change.

For activating version management use path: OLME - version management - set up version management for external documents.

Define combination of document category (PO)/Document type and purchasing organization and tick the check box for activating version management on given combination.

For creating reasons of change in PO follow path: OLME - version management - Define reasons for change.

Here you can define your own reasons which buyer should enter while amending PO.

Hope this will help you.

Regards,

Samir Rana

[Former Member]

Thank you for your comments.

[Former Member]

Set under:

IMG \ MM \ Purchasing \ PO \ Define Reasons for Ordering

You can just as easily use this for reasons for change.  If you have lots of changes per PO you could use in combination with version management.  Alternatively and probably better, just use Version Management :

IMG \ MM \ Purchasing \ Version Management \ . . .