Manage Purchasing Info Records
Application component: Fiori UI for Manage Info Records
App type: Transactional
Line of business: Sourcing and Procurement
Leading industry: Cross Industry
Solution capability: Source Assignment (S/4)
Scope items: Consumable Purchasing|Quality Management in Procurement|Material Replenishment with Kanban - In-House Production|Purchasing Rebate Processing|Procurement of Services|Quality Management for Complaints against Suppliers|Complementary Procurement Functions|Quality Management for Complaints from Customers|Procurement of Direct Materials|Material Replenishment with Kanban - External Procurement|Quality Management of Internal Problems|Nonconformance Management
Description: With this app you can view and manage purchasing info records (info records). You can also determine which material can be procured from a specific supplier at a defined price for a certain validity period. To create an info record using this app, you must store a material or a material group and its supplier details at a plant or a purchasing organization level. 
An Application to create, View & Update Purchasing Info Records.
Key features:  With this app, you can do the following:  Search for info records based on different criteria such as info record number, material, material group, supplier, and plant View, create, edit, or delete info records Note   You can create and display info records for the following procurement types: Consignment, Pipeline, Standard, and Subcontracting.   While creating info records without a material, please ensure you enter a value for Sort Term, this is a mandatory field. However, if you have specified a material, this field is not required. A sort term sub-divides 'purchasing info records belonging to a material group' into sub-groups, only if the purchasing info record is created without a material.    Maintain conditions for a defined validity period. Conditions are used to determine the net price of a material. Note   You can only define the condition type Gross Price in info records.   If you change the existing conditions, to ensure the latest and accurate values are displayed in the purchasing info record, schedule a job using the Determine and Update Price of Purchasing Info Record template in the Schedule Update of Price for Purchasing Documents app.     Maintain the following sections in an info record:   General Information   Purchasing Data   Delivery and Quantity   Conditions   Reference     Maintain shipping instructions for each purchasing info record in the Shipping Instruction field under the Delivery and Quantity section. You can use the available value help to select from a list of pre-configured shipping instructions. The value help is populated by shipping instructions configured by your configuration expert. Note If material or plant are filled after maintaining the shipping instruction, the shipping instruction is overwritten by the respective master data as it takes precedence over manual entry.  Enable info records for automatic sourcing Extend existing info records to different plants and purchasing organizations. To extend an info record, you can do the following:  Choose Create New Purchasing Info Record icon. Enter the material and supplier details.The info record details for this material and supplier combination appear on the screen.  Enter the relevant plant and purchasing organization details.  Choose Save. Note You can provide description for an info record only when you have entered the material group.    Navigate to the Material and Supplier object pages.  Note   You can only define the condition type Gross Price in info records.   You cannot create an info record for a material and a supplier at a plant or a purchasing organization level if an existing info record with same combination is already marked for deletion.   You can provide description for an info record only when you have entered the material group.   To create purchasing info records in the SAP Fiori application Manage Purchasing Info Records, it is mandatory to maintain the purchasing organization and condition details.   If the Time-Dependent Tax (TDT) configuration is active for the country field, then use the SAP GUI applications Create Purchasing Info Record and Change Purchasing Info Record, to maintain the field Tax Valid From.   
Business roles: Purchaser
External Auditor : 
Reviews the accounts of organizations to ensure the accuracy and completeness of their financial records.

Purchaser : 
Ensures that demands of materials and services are fulfilled by creating and monitoring purchase orders.