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                     Purchase               RFQ                                                    Symbol Key
                     requisition         to be created
                    does not exist                                                                  Event

                                                                                                    Function
                                   V
                                Processing                                                          Organizational Unit
                                 of RFQ                                             Purchasing
                              issued to vendor                                     department    V  AND
                                                                                                 xor  Only 1 of several
                                 RFQs
                               transmitted           Quotation
                               to vendors     V      is received


                                          Processing
                                            of RFQ                                  Purchasing
                                        issued to vendor                           department
                                             xor
                                Rejection            Quotation
                              is transmitted         is selected


                                                    P.O. processing                 Purchasing
                                                      for stock                    department
                                                      material

                               Material with           P.O. is
                               P.O. ref. has         transmitted
                                 arrived      V


                                         Goods rec. proc.                            Goods
                                         with P.O. ref. for                         receiving
                                         stock material                            department
                                             xor
                               Goods     Goods receipt                   Billing docum.
                               to be        cannot      Stock is           with ref.
                              returned     be posted     placed    V       received


                                                                 Invoice             Vendor
                                                                processing          processing
                                                               with reference
                                                                  xor
                                                     Bill. docum.         Bill. docum.
                                                                          posted and
            Figure 7-15                              cannot be            released for
                                                      posted
            SAP Ordering Process                                           payment
            Source: Thomas A. Curran, Andrew
            Ladd, and Dennis Ladd, SAP/R/3
            Reporting Business and Intelligence,
            1st ed. copyright 2000. Reprinted by                            Vendor
            permission of Pearson Education, Inc.,                        processing
            Upper Saddle River, NJ.
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