What is ordered and still owed

Between ordering and arrival, money is promised but nothing is stock. The open book holds 98 lines committing 1,298,400.00 at 31 May, joined to receipts continuously so purchasing and finance read one shrinking number.

RuleServe the open-order book from landed order lines: value still to be delivered, by vendor and by age, reconciled against receipts continuously.

Nevermeasure commitment from orders alone. An order line is open until receipts close it; ignoring receipts double-counts everything in transit.

The open book is money promised but not yet stock. It is the bridge between purchasing’s plans and the warehouse’s reality.

◆ Open at 31 May, by vendorlines and committed value.

Vendor	Open lines	Committed value
Vendor A	34	512,000.00
Vendor B	28	418,300.00
Vendor C, intercompany	15	226,900.00
Fourteen smaller vendors	21	141,200.00
Open order book	98	1,298,400.00

Open means ordered on EKPO and not yet fully received on MATDOC: the book shrinks as the receipt lines land against it. The same vendor lanes run through receipts and the variance page, so one vendor’s whole story reads across three pages. Sample values are illustrative, never client data.

◆ The owned answerME2N, joined and kept.

ME2N lists open items today; the owned book joins order lines to their receipts continuously, so delivery performance, overdue lines, and committed value by month are groupings over two landed tables, and the book’s history survives the quarter.

Use case

Problem

Committed spend hides in a transaction listing, overdue lines surface when production stops, and finance discovers the commitment at the cash forecast.

What we build

The open book as order lines joined to receipts: committed value by vendor and age, overdue flags, and every month end kept.

What you get

A commitment number finance and purchasing share: the wait visible by vendor, overdue lines flagged before they stop a line, and history that keeps.

How much have you ordered that has not arrived?

We build the open book that answers by vendor, daily.

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Terms on this page

SAP: The vendor. Systems, Applications, and Products in data processing.
HANA: SAP’s in-memory database, the platform S/4 runs on.
MM: Materials Management, the purchasing and inventory module.
EKPO: The purchase order line table the book reads.
MATDOC: The movement table whose receipts close order lines.
ME2N: The delivered open-purchase-order list transaction.
open line: Ordered quantity not yet fully received.
committed value: Open quantity at order price; promised cash.