Connect Material Requisition Line to Project Activity
Explanation
This activity is used to manually connect a material requisition
line to a project activity, from the material requisition line itself. This
activity is performed to obtain the cost of the project
activity of goods being requested for the project through the material
requisition.
Note that you can also manually connect an existing
material requisition line to a project activity, from the project activity. (Refer
to the activity Connect Existing Object to Activity). Another alternative
is to handle a project demand by issuing material against the miscellaneous
demand on the project activity.
Of the above alternatives, manually connecting a
material requisition line to a project activity from the line itself (described
in this activity), is the most efficient process of handling material requisitions for a project
activity. This is because it excludes the need to access the project client when
handling project demands. If you have a demand
against inventory for a project activity, you can create a
material requisition for that demand in a standard manner, and connect it to a project
activity from the material requisition line itself.
Prerequisites
- The material requisition line must be in the Planned or
Released status.
- The material requisition line must not have been
connected to a project activity.
- The project to be connected must be in the
Approved or Started status.
- The project activity must be in the Released status to
be available.
- The material requisition line
must not have the Purchase Order supply code.
- The site of the material requisition line must be
defined as an allowed site for the connected project.
- The relevant posting type must have been specified
for the project code part.
- The project code part must not have been pre-posted
with a financial project.
- Project manual connections to the material requisition
lines must have been made available on the
Project /Manual
Connections tab.
System Effects
As a result of this activity:
- The material requisition line will be connected to the
project activity.
- The material requisition line will display details
of the project activity to which the line has been connected.
- The material requisition line will receive a project
pre-posting. (As the material requisition line already exists, it may already
have pre-postings. If pre-posting on the code part already exists, they will
not be removed; but the project and activity sequence will be posted.)
- The Project Navigator/Connections tab and
the Project/Demand/Material Requisition Line tab will
display details of the material requisition line connected to
the project activity.
Window
Material
Requisition
Related Window Descriptions
Material
Requisition
Connect to Activity
Procedure
- Open the
Material Requisition window,
and search for the relevant material requisition.
- Select the required material requisition line, right-click, point to
Project Connections and then click Connect to Activity.
- The
Connect to
Activity dialog box opens. To select the activity to which you want
to connect the material requisition line, click on the Program ID
field (or
on the Project ID field, if your project does not have a program ID).
- Click List and use the List
of Values to select the program ID pertaining to the activity you want to select.
- You can continue to specify the
criteria for the activity you want to select by clicking on the Project
ID,
Sub Project ID, and Activity ID fields, and then selecting
suitable values from the List of Values.
- Alternatively, you can enter the activity sequence in
the Activity Sequence field, or select it from the List of Values. (You can obtain the activity sequence from the
Project
Navigator/Activity/Details tab.)
- Click OK to save the record.