Connect Material Requisition Line to Project Activity
Explanation
This activity is used to manually connect a material requisition
line to a project activity, from the material requisition line itself. This
activity is performed to obtain the cost of the project
activity of goods being requested for the project through the material
requisition.
Note that you can also manually connect an existing
material requisition line to a project activity, from the project activity. (Refer
to the activity Connect Existing Object to Activity). Another alternative
is to handle a project demand by issuing material against the miscellaneous
demand on the project activity.
Of the above alternatives, manually connecting a
material requisition line to a project activity from the line itself (described
in this activity), is the most efficient process of handling material requisitions for a project
activity. This is because it excludes the need to access the project client when
handling project demands. If you have a demand
against inventory for a project activity, you can create a
material requisition for that demand in a standard manner, and connect it to a project
activity from the material requisition line itself.
Prerequisites
- The material requisition line must be in the Planned or
Released status.
- The material requisition line must not have been
connected to a project activity.
- The project to be connected must be in the
Approved or Started status.
- The project activity must be in the Released status to
be available.
- The material requisition line
must not have the Purchase Order supply code.
- The site of the material requisition line must be
defined as an allowed site for the connected project.
- The relevant posting type must have been specified
for the project code part.
- The project code part must not have been pre-posted
with a financial project.
- Project manual connections to the material requisition
lines must have been made available on the
Project /Manual
Connections tab.
System Effects
As a result of this activity:
- The material requisition line will be connected to the
project activity.
- The material requisition line will display details
of the project activity to which the line has been connected.
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The material requisition line will receive a project pre-posting. (As the material requisition line already exists, it may already have pre-postings. If pre-posting on the code part already exists, they will be replaced by the project pre-posting. If the project pre-posting has no value for a code part then the existing pre-posting on the object will remain unchanged. Also the project and activity sequence will be posted.)
- The Project Navigator/Connections tab and
the Project/Demand/Material Requisition Line tab will
display details of the material requisition line connected to
the project activity.