Customer Sales Order number & Customer PO number

Question

Hi experts,
We are doing third party sales. So once we create Customer Sales Orders manually via VA01, users also manually create Purchase Req for it.
We do not automatically create PR from Sales Order, as this is not my clients requirement. So we don't use item category group BANS in the material master.
In the item level in the PR under the Contact Person tab, the creation indicator shows "V Sales & distribution document".  Once PR is created this updates the PR number under the item level Schedule lines in the Sales Order.
After PR creation, we run a job to create PO's.
But the new requirement from the client is to automate this PO creation thru EDI.
Our SAP is 4.6C & the Idoc type we use is ORDERS05 & Message Type is ORDERS. We are using EDIFACT std.
Once I get the idoc xml file for this PO, I find that my Customer PO number (from the Sales Order) & also the Customer Sales Order number is not copying to the xml output.
Please advise what needs to be done inorder to have it.
This will be great help & I will reward for the answers !
Rgds,
Pri

Answer 1

Hi,
In VOV8 you can only Check whether the purchase order number already exists or not.
If you want to do any other check like you said based on customer & PO number combination then follow steps below:
Ask your ABAPER to
1: Create a Z-table where you can store the required Customer No & PO No combinations.
2: Write a code to check the PO no & Customer No entered in Sales order with the entries in the Z-table & throw an error if there is no match.
This code needs to be written in the User exit Save_document_prepare by your ABAPER.
3: This will work at time of Save & not a point of entry. The result will be same "error msg will be thrown"
regards
Edited by: Innovation is key on Feb 28, 2011 6:08 PM