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Practice SAP ME51N — Create a Purchase Requisition

Raise an internal request for 20 laptops, charged to a cost centre. Work through it below in a simulated ME51N screen: pick the wrong value and you get the error a real SAP system would give you.

ME51N

Create a Purchase Requisition

· Procure-to-Pay (MM)

Raise an internal request for 20 laptops, charged to a cost centre.

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Guided

Step 1: Enter ME51N in the command field.

Create Purchase Requisition
DocumentEditGotoExtrasEnvironmentSystemHelp
ItmAMaterialQuantityDeliv. DatePlantCost Centre
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Client 100  |  Company Code 1000  |  S/4HANA

What you will do in ME51N

  1. 01Enter ME51N in the command field.
  2. 02Choose document type NB (standard requisition).
  3. 03Enter purchasing group 001.
  4. 04Enter material 5510 (business laptop).
  5. 05Enter quantity 20.
  6. 06Enter a delivery date about four weeks out: 02.09.2026.
  7. 07Enter plant 1000.
  8. 08These laptops are for the IT department, not for stock. What account assignment category?
  9. 09You chose K, so SAP now demands a cost centre. Enter the IT cost centre 0001300.
  10. 10Save the requisition.

SAP errors this simulation teaches

Pick the wrong option and SAP answers the way it would on a real system. Learning to read these is most of the job.

Next in Procure-to-Pay (MM)

ME21NCreate a Purchase Order

Raise a purchase order to supplier 100214 for 100 units of R-1001.

MIGOPost a Goods Receipt

Receive 100 units of R-1001 into stock against purchase order 4500000077.

MIROVerify a Supplier Invoice

Post the supplier invoice for PO 4500000077 — and make the 3-way match balance.

MB1BTransfer Stock Between Locations

Move 50 units from the main warehouse to the production storage location.

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