Blanket purchase order

You can use blanket purchase orders to procure consumable materials or services for which it is not worth creating a separate purchase order for each procurement transaction.

Blanket purchase orders are usually valid for a longer period of time. You can directly post the invoices for the materials and services procured for this blanket purchase order.

Definition

1. blanket purchase order is a type of Po for simplifying purchasing flow.

Blanket purchase also aims to simplify the process and reduce the amount of documents.

Designed mainly for external services and C-type materials (C items), such as purchasing office supplies.

2. Characteristics of blanket purchase orders

2.1 new order type -- fo (Framework Order) PO header ID Validity Period

2.2 new item category -- B (Limit)

SAP uses item category to separate and limit different procurement processes or methods

Spro-Materials Management-purchasing-define external representation of item category

2.3 The overall order in SAP will only limit the validity period and amount

3. Advantages of blanket purchase orders

Purpose

1. The biggest benefit of an overall order is the reduction of the processing cost (processing cost), mainly manifested in:

A. Use a purchase order to purchase different materials or services with long-term requirements

B. You do not need to issue a purchase order for each independent purchase operation.

C. The process of receiving goods and service entry is not required.

2. When the invoice entry for the overall order is checked

A. Is the invoice within the validity period of the overall order?

B. After the invoice is posted, will it exceed the upper limit of the single item in the purchase order?

3. Account assignment can be specified during invoice verification)

A. It can be changed from single-account allocation to multi-account allocation.

B. If the Po item is "account assignment unknown", you must manually enter the account assignment.

C. The assignment category can be customized in T-code: ome9,

Or spro --> Materials Management --> purchasing --> accountassignment --> maintain accountassignment categories

Blanket Po is used for IR directly. There is no quantity when Miro is used. The subjects and amounts are allocated through Acct assgt.