AFS MM

AFS : VAS In TPO

When VAS information is present in TPO and PTO, the same information shall be copied into TPO/PTO Item text as ‘VAS text’. This shall include VAS information for the item and VAS information specific to schedule lines. This VAS text shall flow in follow-on documents – Purchase Requisition and Purchase Order respectively. VAS information shall be present in print output as well as purchase order IDOC

TPO VAS

AFS Procure – to – Pay cycle

Procure to pay is the process of obtaining and managing the raw materials needed for manufacturing a product or providing a service. It involves the transactional flow of data that is sent to a supplier as well as the data that surrounds the fulfillment of the actual order and payment for the product or service.

AFS support this scenario to the granular level of SKU’s. Which means the information on what to purchase and all is maintained at the SKU level.

In a short form, Procure-to-Pay scenario consist of the following steps

  1. Create Purchase Order
  2. Create Inbound Delivery (or direct Goods receipt via MIGO)
  3. Post Goods Receipt
  4. Invoice

Before creation of the purchase order, business might create purchase requisition also. Also during invoice creation, the system can have interface with FI (Financial Accounting) for the accounting related processes.

The below given document has information on a normal P2P cycle in AFS.

ProcureToPay

 

AFS Return PO (Purchase Order)

In business a situation can arise that the stock is of poor quality or there is excess stock and the company will have to send the materials back to the vendor. ERP allows this process with the help of the document called ‘Return Purchase Order’. The materials to be returned are marked as ‘Return Items’ in the Purchase Order.

The help.sap.com link talks about the Return Process in general.

The scenario of Return PO is being supported in AFS from release 6.3 on wards allowing the purchasing department to send the stock back to the Vendor.

The process flow can be depicted as follows

  1. Create a purchase order with the item marked as ‘Return Item’.
  2. Set the shipping data and create the outbound delivery.
  3. Post goods issue
  4. Send the credit memo.

In AFS SRL (Stock Requirement List) , the return item is considered as a Requirement and the Requirement type is indicated as ‘RP’. And Allocation Run (ARun) does not consider the AFS Return items in Purchase Order for Allocation.

For AFS materials, batch should be assigned in the return purchase order. This is a mandatory step for all the schedule lines of Return Items.

The document has sequence steps to create Return Order.

Return PO