Measuring Performance of Purchase department

Is it possible to measure performance of purcjasing department, based on minimizing the inventory.
Regards
Mahesh

Hi,
Yes you can measure the performance of the Purchase department.
Purchase department is mainly linked with the Purchaseing groups.
You can take the report based on the Purchasing groups.
Check with MC01 transaction --- Logisistics information library
Here goto Purchasing -- Select the option Purchasing group
You will get lot of reports based on the Purchasing group.
1) Purchasing values (purchasing group view)
2) Purchasing activities (purchasing group view)
3) Overview of purchase orders (purchasing group view)
4) Overview of scheduling agreements (purchasing group view)
5) Overview of RFQs (purchasing group view)
6) Overview of contracts (purchasing group view)
Some other standard reports are
1) How many POs are created in a Month per Purchasing groups ( ME2N etc)
2) How many POs are open in a month ( ME2N etc)
3) Price comparision with the vendors ( ME49)
4) Analysis of Net order values ( ME81N)
other wise you can consolidate all the reports & take a help of ABAPer to develop the Z report which can taken when ever you required about the performance of the Purchasing department.
Hope this will help you
rgds
gsc

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