• • Purchasing master data
• • Material master record
• • Business partner
• • Partner functions
• • Sources of supply and conditions
• • Price determination basics
• • Purchasing and special info records
• • Central contracts and contracts for material groups
• • Scheduling agreements
• • Source determination
• • Source determination with source lists
• • Source determination with quota arrangements
• • Additional aspects of source determination
• • Blocking sources of supply
• • Self service requisitioning with catalog
• • Optimized purchasing
• • Processing unassigned and assigned purchase requisitions
• • Monitoring purchase orders
• • Document release procedure
• • Releasing purchasing documents
• • Converting released purchase requisitions
• • Configuring and creating release procedures
• • Specific procurement processes
• • Creating invoices using invoice plans
• • Creating blanket purchase orders
• • Deploying subcontracting
• • Purchasing with manufacturer part numbers
• • Deploying additional special procurement processes
• • Vendor evaluation
• • Evaluating vendors
• • Setting up vendor evaluation
• • Setting up vendor evaluation by purchasing category
• • Purchasing document types
• • Customizing document types
• • Setting up field selection
• • Deploying version management
• • Analyzing special aspects in customizing
• • Defining function authorizations for buyers