User Requirements for This Lesson

To understand the examples in this lesson, you will need either a user logon name with authority to create a purchase requisition, or an application area where you have authority to create another document.

Plain English

Application Area An area in SAP such as Purchasing, Human Resources, Plant Maintenance, and so on.

Document The generic name for a standard business form. Although you may be used to thinking of a document as paper, in this sense it refers to an electronic business transaction record. A purchase order is a document, as are a maintenance request and an invoice.

The example used in this lesson is a purchase requisition, which is typical of many other business documents. If your user name doesn't ...

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