Service Procurement

1. Service Procurement step by
step – Special Procurement

2. Service Procurement
• Service procurement is the procurement of services.
• Service procurement in SAP happens in following steps

3. Step 1: Create PO
• Create a PO with ME21N Add vendor name, Purchasing Organization,
Company Code & Purchasing Group.
• In PO there will always be account assignment category because
service can not be stored physically and it is always consumption.
Hence account assignment category in PO is always present.
• Item category used in PO is “D” i.e. services
• For the example given below, we have taken account assignment
category as K i.e. cost center and item category as D i.e. services

5. • At the item level we mention only one item.
• Detailed services are mentioned in Services tab in the item details
section of the PO.
• After maintaining the service lines, pop up window will appear to
maintain the account assignment details for each service lines.

6. • Maintain the account assignment.
• There is auto repeat account assignment button, which can copy the
same account assignment to all items
• Enter the details and save the PO which will generate PO number

7. Step 2: Create Service Entry Sheet
• Transaction code to create the service entry sheet is ML81N
• After entering in the transaction, it will show the last PO or SES
(Service Entry Sheet) created.
• Click on Other Purchase Order button in application toolbar and enter
the PO no. as shown in screen below.

8. • Click on continue from this window.
• To create a new SES for this PO, click on the New Button in application
toolbar, this will create a new entry sheet for the PO.
• Enter the other details required in the SES as shown below.