Goods receipt reference to Purchase Order non-material master items

Question

Dear all,
Platform: SAP R/3 4.7
I'm working in my customer environment whereby the purchasing scenario is as follows:
1. Create a normal PR me51n -. enter material description for the item to purchase, qty, price, plant and etc. My customer doesn't maintain material master for their items.
2. Create a normal PO me21n with reference to the PR. The information from the PR is automatically copied to the PO.
3. They receive the physical item and now it's time to perform GR.
My question:
Can I perform GR with reference to PO since the item in the PO is not from the material master, meaning there's no material # maintained for that item? I'd like to record the items ordered into the plant.
Thanks.
Steven
Edited by: Steven Khoo on Jul 22, 2010 3:15 PM
Edited by: Steven Khoo on Jul 22, 2010 3:16 PM

Answer 1

Hi Shubham,
"Hi,
Yes always you can make GR against of PO irrespective of material master maintained or short desription, which is commonly called non codified material.
Ccan be procuured against Account assignment ( cost center) which have to eneter in PR/PO in the account column then material group, which is mandatory field with this G/R/IR clearing account will get triggered during GR which is debit entry & GL which is maintained in the PO with the combnination of cost ceneter will be the Cr entry. Hope this helps you."
I'm still kind of confused. Normally, if a material master is maintained for an item, under accounting 1 view, we assign a valuation class. During GR, it will hit transaction key in OBYC - BSX and the system will be able to locate the corresponding GL account # mapped to that valuation class in the material master.
Now, for this "non codified material" you mentioned, how does the R/3 know which GL to assign? There's no accounting view for it since it's just a text description. This is where I'm really confused.
Thanks.
Steven