Preposting in Material Requisitions—Exercises

IMPORTANT
It is extremely important that you set up and work within your own site to maintain your data integrity. If you work within any other site, you will compromise your own exercise data as well as the data of other students. Predictable exercise results require that your data be isolated in your own site.

Basic Data Setup

Internal Customer

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to set up an internal customer.

Windows
Inventory Basic Data/Internal Customers

Enter yourself as an internal customer.

General exercise for Internal Customers.

Internal Destination

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to set up an internal destination.

Windows
Inventory Basic Data/Internal Destinations

Enter an internal destination in your site.

General exercise for Internal Destinations.  

Inventory Part

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to set up an inventory part.

Windows:
Inventory Part

Enter an inventory part in your site.

General exercise for Purchased Inventory Part
General exercise for Manufactured Inventory Part

Main Exercises

Purpose: The purpose of these exercises is to verify posting controls that have already been set up for preposting in a material requisition, to enter prepostings in a material requisition header, to enter prepostings in a material requisition line, and to learn the effects of the prepostings entered in material requisition.

Verifying Posting Controls

Windows:
Posting Control

  1. Open the Posting Control window.
  2. Query for the M107 and M109 posting types. Verify that the M107 and M109 posting types are defined with Account and Cost Center as code part names. Both posting types should also use AC2 as control type. 
    Note:    Make sure you are checking the postings for the company that your site belongs to. Please check window title for the Company code.
  3. Query for the M1 and M53 posting types. Study the posting controls.

Entering Preposting in a Material Requisition Header

Windows:
Material Requisition

  1. Open the Material Requisition window.
  2. Enter a material requisition header. Save and note the order number:_________.
  3. Right-click in the header and then click Pre Posting Header. Enter 1410 in the Account field and 210 in the Cost Center field.

Entering Prepostings in Material Requisition Line

Windows:
Material Requisition

  1. In the Material Requisition  window, enter two lines in the material requisition you created in the above exercise. Click Inventory Order as the supply code for one line and click Purchase Order as the supply code for the other line. Save your records.
  2. Select the first line, right-click, and then click Pre Posting Detail. What do you see?
  3. Repeat step 2 for the other lines. What do you see?
  4. Change the preposting on the first line, entering 211 in the Cost Center field.
  5. Reserve and issue all lines.

Note If you want to see the prepostings you define on a material requisition line with a Purchase Order supply code, invoice the purchase order and make sure the invoice has purchase price variance.

Verifying Accounting Transactions Created for Material Requisitions

Windows:
Inventory Transactions History

  1. Open the Inventory Transactions History window.
  2. Query for your material requisition in the Order Ref 1 field.
  3. Study the transactions created. To get a more detailed view about, for instance accounting transactions, mark a line, right click and select Query - Inventory Transaction History.