3rd party process - auto PO creation

[joris]

Hi,

I want to have the PO created automatically for the third party sales order. I ticked the auto PO box in the item category TAS but still only the PR is created. any clues? I know there are several threads out there but couldnt find the right one.
Thanks

[svetja]

Is your master data (vendor, material, source list, info record, price conditions) good enough to automatially create a PO? What should SAP do, other than creating a PR, if the data is not sufficient to create a PO right away?

giving an error message to a person in customer service is probably the wrong way, as a CSR does often not know what a buyer has to maintain to make an automatic PO creation happen, so it is better to a have a PR instead.

Please read OSS Note 332475 - Purchase order is not generated automatically
it has a check list

[joris]

yes all master data is correct. I understood the the auto PO create checkbox in the item cat TAS works only in ALE scenarios. So no automatic po creation possible unless ME59N or so is scheduled as a batch job