Collective Conversion in the Background Converting Planned Orders into Purchase Requisitions

As of release 4.0 you can also convert planned orders into purchase requisitions in the background. This is particularly useful if you use the creation indicator (2) Purchase requisitions in opening period in the planning run. The system creates purchase requisitions in the opening period but outside the opening period, the system creates planned orders. The planned orders must be converted into purchase requisitions in time so that purchasing receives the purchase requisitions in time. To ensure that this occurs you can use conversion in background.

To do this proceed as follows:

1. To access the screen, Convert Planned Orders into Pur. Reqs in Background, choose Planned order
® Convert -> pur. req. ® In background from the MRP screen.

The screen, Convert Planned Orders into Pur. Reqs in Background: Variations, appears.

2. Choose
Create variant and create a variant.

In the variant, you define the plant, MRP controller and until which opening date conversion is to occur.

3. Complete the necessary attributes for the variant.
4. Choose
Schedule job. Set whether scheduling is to occur once or periodically and enter the dates. Scheduling once means the scheduling occurs once on a certain date.Periodic scheduling means the scheduling occurs regularly on set dates.
5. The system automatically converts planned orders into purchase requisitions on the set dates.