Changing details in Service PO

Question

In a Service PO, the problem I am facing is that entering in Purchase Order "Item Category in Purchasing Document" (column I) the value D (services) automatically declares the unit in terms of AU (Activity Unit). Hence, when I go for the output (print preview) it gives a weird Quantity of 1 AU no matter the service was measured in terms of, fee charged per liter or per tank or per day etc. This obviously is not good but my supervisor thinks it is a lot of work.
If I want the quantity to appear as it appears in the Service Item, all I need to do is get the unit from that field right? Hence the form only requires changing of field from qty in the header to the qty in the item?
Replacing MEPO1211-EPSTP with ESLL-MEINS in however the code for forms (i.e. output for print) is written should do the trick right? I want to be sure about the way to go about it to discuss this with my supervisor.

Answer 1

I just want to justify the logic why system picks AU for service items.
two ways you can procure the service.
- for short term services, we create account assigned PO with short text.
- for long term services, we create service master and also we want to track the service completion with SES.
Having said this... for service PO with item category D, in the line item we dont enter any material and we just enter short description with account assignment. so it means we are not entering exact service details in the line item. We enter the exact service details in service tab and moreover a single service can have multiple services clubbed. for ex. you are creating a service PO for lunch bouffet party. You want to categorise this service into specific services..
- food  - 100 EA
- drinks - 20 Litres
- waiter service - 5 man hours
In the above example, you create PO and mention short description as New year lunch party with UOM AU. and in the service tab you mention all the three services with three different UOM. So if system allows you to change the UOM in line item, you can't have different UOM in service line items. Hence I think system is using generic UOM.
So you need to change your smartform logic to fetch the UOM from service tab and not in item tab.