SAP Materials Management & Procurement - Kraft Foods

In SAP Kraft (purchasing module), Contract outline agreements are used for direct purchases. Scheduling agreements are for JIT deliveries, and purchase orders are operational documents, not outline agreements.

Auto-created Purchase Requisitions (PR) in SAP do not require additional approval to generate Purchase Orders (PO) - the approval workflow is already satisfied at PR creation stage. This is a standard configuration to prevent duplicate approvals.

Contract Coverage Reports in SAP Kraft focus on plant-specific materials and contracts, not common materials across multiple plants. Cross-plant materials would be handled through different aggregation mechanisms or centralized purchasing.

Contracts in SAP Kraft can be created at various organizational levels (company code, purchasing organization) and are not strictly plant-specific. While they can reference plants, they're broader documents that may serve multiple plants.

In SAP Kraft purchasing, approval is typically at the line item level, allowing different items within the same document to have different approval statuses based on material group, value, or other criteria. Header-level approval would apply the entire document uniformly.

In SAP Purchasing, the determination of approval workflows (release strategies) is based on specific characteristics that classify purchase requisitions and documents. The Material Group (classification of materials) and Plant (organizational level) are the key characteristics used to determine which approval strategy applies. Company code, Purchasing Group, and Material Type alone are not the primary determinants for approver routing.

For consignment materials, the purchasing info record category must be explicitly defined and created as 'Consignment' rather than 'Standard'. Standard info records are used for normal purchasing processes. Using only Standard would fail to track consignment stock and settlement correctly, making the statement False.

AP Kraft Purchasing organization code KF03 is specifically configured for IM&S (Indirect Materials & Services) procurement in SAP systems. Other options like Commodities, Raw & Pack, or External Manufacturing correspond to different SAP purchasing organization codes. This makes the stored option correct, while the generic letters a and b are placeholders.

ZCT is configured as a contract order type and is not applicable to the standard procurement flow of Indirect Materials and Services (IM&S) purchase orders, which typically use types like ZPRI (indirect internal) and ZPRE (indirect external) for operational purchasing.

In this specific material grouping schema, the second digit is defined to represent the material category, where P represents packaging materials. Other characters represent different groups, such as E for EME/intercompany purchases, C for commodities, and R for raw materials.