Free SAP MM Tutorial on How to Create Purchasing Inforecord in SAP MM Purchasing

Purchasing Information Record

In the standard SAP purchasing info record is maintained as a source of information for Purchasing. It contains some of the information from material master and some of the information related to its supplier/vendor. Hence Material and Vendor Master is pre-requisite for a purchasing info record. You can also maintain the purchasing information record without material master record if your material is for direct consumption. Here you can use material group instead of material master.

You can have more than one purchasing information record for a single material if it is being supplied by more suppliers, one for each supplier. Information maintained in purchasing information records is used as default data in documents such as purchase orders.

In standard SAP Info record stands for information record which contains concise information about a vendor and a material that Purchasing already procures from that vendor. An info record thus represents a material-vendor relationship. Following are some of the information maintained in Info record:

• Units of measure in which materials are ordered from the vendor
• The applicable reminder levels
• Prices and Conditions with validity period (Present and Future)
• Applicable Tax Code
• Planned Delivery Time
• Standard & Maximum Quantity
• Tolerance limits for over-deliveries and under-deliveries
• Number of Last Purchase Order or Quotation
• Text
• Vendor evaluation data
• An indicator for showing vendor as regular vendor for the material
• The vendor sub-range to which the material belongs
• The availability period during which the vendor can supply the material

Types of Information Record

• Info record with material master record
• Info record without material master record

Organizational Levels

A purchasing information record can be maintained at following organizational levels:

Purchasing Organization Specific (All plants within a purchasing Organization)

Plant Specific (single plant within a purchase organization)

Purchasing Information Category

In the standard SAP, a purchasing information record can be maintained for the following procurement types:

• Standard
• Subcontracting
• Pipeline
• Consignment

Free SAP Tutorial on How to Create Purchasing Inforecord. Please Read this free SAP material Free SAP Tutorial on Purchasing Inforecord.pdf