Question no 3613 : Purchasing Document with a Valid Period

In SAP MM as at ECC6.0 EhP6, which of the following Purchasing Document can be created with a Validity Period ?

(more than one answers)

A)  Purchase Requisition.
B)  RFQ.
C)  Purchase Order.
D)  Contract.
E)  Scheduling Agreement.
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Answer: C, D, E

A) A Purchase Requisition does not have a header (where validity periods in the PO and Outline agreements are stored), at the moment document item levels do not have validity periods.
B) Have not tested RFQ header validity period but business wise, we would only required the expected delivery date for the item requested as RFQ to the vendor and the vendor would provide the Quotation stating both the price and validity periods for the evaluations. At that point, then the Quotation to be generated to Outline Agreements will carry a validity period.
C) Blanket PO can have a valid Period, the valid Period fields at the PO Header are switched off using Field Selection assigned to the PO Document Type in the IMG.
D, E) Outline Agreements in MM ie: both Contract and SA have Validity Periods. The Validity periods are mandatory even on standard Outline Agreement document types provided by SAP.