Notes
Notes on SAP procurement
Where confirmations actually live, why a missing ASN costs more than a missing acknowledgement, and how to get purchasing data out of SAP without losing the security review. Written for people who do this work.
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Why PO confirmations go missing in SAP — and how to find them
Confirmation control keys, the EKES table and why ME2N shows a PO as open when the supplier says they confirmed it. A practical guide to finding the real gaps.
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ASN, inbound delivery, goods receipt: what SAP is actually tracking
The three are used interchangeably in conversation and mean different things in SAP. What each one is, which table it lives in, and why the gap between them is where delays hide.
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Four ways to get open PO data out of SAP, ranked
OData, a read-only database user, a scheduled extract or driving SAP GUI. What each costs, what each survives, and which one your IT team will actually approve.
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Building a supplier scorecard that survives the supplier review
Five metrics that can be defended line by line, where each comes from in SAP, and the three arguments a supplier will make about your numbers.
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Two hundred exceptions and one morning: how to order the list
Why exception counts are the wrong headline, how to rank PO exceptions by lateness and value, and the four priority bands that make a list into a work queue.
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