SAP Purchase Order Report

Learn about SAP purchase order report and how to use it. This tutorial is part of our SAP MM training and it will help you to understand how to use SAP purchase order report for various requirements and scenarios.

SAP Purchase Order

SAP purchase order is a document which is sent to a vendor requesting to supply materials or services on the agreed conditions. A purchase order could be created for stock materials, direct consumption or services. A purchase order could be sent to an outside vendor or to other plant within your company code or other company code. In the latter case, the purchase order would be called a Stock Transport Order (STO) or Inter Company Purchase Order (ICPO).

SAP purchase order could be created, changed and displayed through different transaction codes. To create a purchase order, one would need a vendor, material number to be procured, requesting plant, required quantity and delivery date. The prices and conditions would be populated from the already maintained condition records. A purchase order could be created by entering each and every value manually or created with a reference to an existing purchase order.

There is an additional functionality in a purchase order (PO) known as extended document flow. For instance, if a PO has multiple line items, then after selecting the required line item and clicking on the extended document flow icon, the SAP system would display goods receipt, invoice, delivery document, purchase requisition (if the PO was created from a purchase requisition) related to this PO.

SAP Purchase Order Reports

SAP offers a number of transactions to display lists of purchasing documents or purchase orders. They can be used to view SAP purchase order report according to different criteria. Here is the list of these transactions with brief descriptions.

ME2L – Purchasing Documents per Vendor

This transaction helps to display or extract purchasing documents with reference to a vendor or a set of vendors.

ME2M – Purchasing Documents for Material

In this transaction, purchasing documents could be extracted with reference to the material provided in the input selection screen.

ME2K – Purchasing Documents by Account Assignment Category

This transaction is specific to all account assignment categories. Account assignment categories like cost center, sales order, order or asset could be provided in the input selection screen and the same could be extracted in the output / results screen.

ME2J – Purchasing Documents per Project

In this transaction, one could extract purchasing documents specific to a particular project provided as an input in the selection screen.

ME2C – Purchasing Documents for Material Group

Materials with the same attributes could be grouped together using a key called Material Group. If the requirement is to extract purchasing documents details for a particular material group, then this report could be used.

ME2B – Purchasing Documents by Requirement Tracking Number

Requirement tracking number is a field in Purchase Requisition which would be entered during creation of purchase requisition. So those purchasing documents that were created with reference to this purchase requisition would contain the requirement tracking number. If you extract a report with input as a requirement tracking number in this transaction, it would give details about purchasing documents containing the specified requirement tracking number.

ME2N – Purchasing Documents per Document Number

When the requirement is to extract details of the already known purchasing document, it could be found using this transaction. In the input selection screen, provide the purchasing document number as input and the output could be extracted in the results screen.

ME2W – Purchasing Document per Supplying Plant

Stock Transport Order (STO) is a purchase order which is used to purchase material from another plant. In this report, details of STOs could be obtained.

SAP Purchase Order Report Tutorial

Now, let us demonstrate how to use SAP purchase order report for finding purchasing documents per a particular vendor.

Scenario 1

Imagine, that our requirement is to get a list of all the purchase orders raised by plant 1000 with vendor T-K515A01 Sapsota Company Limited.

Go to transaction ME2L.

SAP Menu -> Logistics -> Materials Management -> Purchasing -> Purchase Order -> List Displays -> By Vendor

In the input selection screen, enter the value for vendor as T-K515A01 and plant as 1000, then click on the execute button to get the results. The details and fields to be entered are shown in the below picture.

The first column with name Purchasing Document contains SAP purchase order number. Next column named Item gives the line item in this purchase order. Requirement tracking number displays the requirement tracking number entered during purchase requisition creation. Category denotes the purchasing document category, and category F denotes a purchase order.

Purchasing Group displays the purchasing group entered during purchase order creation. Purchasing group groups together buyers responsible for procurement of materials. POH column is used to find whether there is a Purchase Order History (POH) for a particular purchase order or not. Purchase Order History would be available for a particular PO when follow up documents exist like invoice or goods receipt. This could be identified with the help of the icon in POH column. If a particular column is blank, it means that this PO has no history and it would be considered as an open PO. Doc Date column denotes the date of creation of a purchase order.

Similarly, there are other columns available in this SAP purchase order report and you could select your required column or field as per your requirement with the help of change layout icon which controls columns that are available for display.

You could also reorder the columns based on your requirement using drag and drop functionality or by hiding a particular column. If the requirement is to extract the report frequently, then you could save it as a layout. If necessary, that particular layout could be used as a default setting and also be user-specific.

Scenario 2

Now, let’s consider another scenario of using SAP purchase order report. The requirement is to get a list of all the open purchase orders raised by plant 1000 with vendor T-K515A01 Sapsota Company Limited for which goods receipt is yet to be done.

Go to transaction ME2L.

SAP Menu -> Logistics-> Materials Management -> Purchasing -> Purchase Order -> List Displays -> By Vendor

In the input selection screen, enter the value for vendor as T-K515A01 and plant as 1000, then click on the execute button to get the desired results. The details and fields to be entered are shown below.

In the screenshot shown above, the POH column denotes SAP purchase order history and we could filter for rows without this symbol in POH column, as shown below.

After applying the filter for purchase order history, number of lines in SAP purchase order report would be decreased and there will be no against purchase orders. The remaining purchase orders could be extracted as open purchase order.

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