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Preferred Partner Entry Field Instructions

This page describes the fields for the ECAT Purchase Requisition. The fields are listed in the order in which they appear on the form.

General Information:    Detail Information:
Requisitioner
Deliver To
Delivery Location
Delivery Phone
Desired Vendor
Vendor Order Number
Internal Notes
 
Short Text
Quantity
Units
Price per Unit
Material Group
SKU/Vendor Part Number
Distribution
Cost Obj
G/L Account
 
General Information

Requisitioner

SAPweb fills the Requisitioner field with the userid from the certificate of the person completing the form.

Deliver To

SAPweb fills this field with the userid of the person completing the form. However, the vendor will deliver the goods to the person appearing in the Ship To information on the vendor's order form.

Delivery Loc

SAPweb enters the first address line of the Ship To appearing on the order form. This information can be changed by editing the profile information with the vendor.

Delivery Phone

Enter the telephone number of the person to whom the goods will be delivered.

Desired Vendor

SAPweb enters the appropriate six-digit partner vendor code and displays the vendor name.

Vendor Order
Number

SAPweb enters the vendor's order confirmation number.

Internal Notes

Enter any internal notes. This field is optional. This information will appear on the SAP requisition but will not appear on the purchase order.


Detail Information

Short Text

SAPweb enters a short description of the item you are purchasing.

Quantity

SAPweb enters the quantity of the item specified in the order form.

Units

SAPweb enters the unit of measure for this line item as specified in the order form.

Price per Unit

SAPweb enters the catalog price per unit in this field from the order form.

Material Group

Material groups classify goods by commodity or service type and are used for reporting purposes. For example, computers belong to the material group:
1000 Computer Equipment

To access a list of material groups, click the Matchcode down arrow.

This field will be used by the Procurement Office for reporting. If you are not sure which to choose, pick the material group that most fits.

SKU/Vendor
Part Number

SAPweb enters the vendor's part number for this item.

Distribution

You can distribute the cost of your purchase across as many as three cost objects (MIT accounts). The field defaults to "100" for charging the entire cost to one cost object.

For each cost object, enter the percentage of the cost to be charged to the cost object. Do not enter the "%" percent sign.

Cost Obj

Enter the seven-digit cost object (MIT account) number.

G/L Acct

Enter the G/L account number. G/L account numbers are a six-digit numbers in SAP that correspond to the old MIT object codes.

To find G/L Account numbers by G/L account name, click the Matchcode down arrow. Search by part of the name, for example, to find all equipment G/L accounts, enter: equip

To find G/L Accounts corresponding to classic MIT Object Codes, see:

SAP G/L Accounts and Classic System Object Codes





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