If you create a purchasing document, the system attempts to find a price for the material to be procured. The system always searches from "specific" to "general". When you create a purchase order, the system searches for an info record for the vendor/material combination at purchasing information level/plant level. If there is no specific data for the purchasing organization/plant combination, it searches at purchasing organization level. If there is no data here either, you must enter the price manually.

Hint: In the purchase order, the valuation price from the material master record is not proposed as the purchase order price.

If a purchasing info record exists, then valid conditions have priority during price determination. If an info record does not contain any conditions or only contains invalid conditions, the system reads the number of the last purchasing document in the info record and then proposes the price from this document. The prices determined in this way are default values that can be changed by the buyer if necessary.

In the default values for buyers (Customizing), you can define how the system handles conditions from the last purchase order. To transfer conditions from the last purchase order, you can specify the following:

- The conditions are always copied

- The conditions are not copied if the price is entered manually

- The conditions are never copied