Creating a PR for acquisition of an asset

Hi everyone,
This week some friend were talking about the process to buy an asset and we're a little bit concerned about the situation below.
A user created at IMA11 a request to buy some laptops and then he created an internal investment order related the IM request made before. So far everything is fine.
He called our asset sector and asked it to create an asset number related to the internal order that he has been created. With the asset number the user gone to the ME51N transaction to create the PR using the asset number provided by the asset sector.
At this time, for some reason, he didn't notice and instead of buy some notebooks he bought some chairs and the system didn't alert him telling that the asset number are for laptops not chairs.
Is this correct, or the system really doesn't provide that kind of information and an asset number created for some particular demand can be used to buy everything that the user wants?
Another thing, we've noticed that the asset number can be used for more than once, is this correct as well?
PS.: In our company IM management isn't turned on, I mean, Investment acquisitions doesn't check budget .
Thanks a lot for your answers.

Hi AP,
When the user is creating the request via IMA11, there is a tab called Variant.
In this tab, there is an option called Plan Values. In this option the user can assign that the request is related to a Material by inputing the material code. But, based on you've said before, I realized that there isn't any constraint between the material code choosen in IMA11 transaction and the material code choosen in ME51N.
Thanks.
Best Regards,
Rodrigo

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