User Requirements for This Lesson
To understand the examples in this lesson, you will need either a user logon name with authority to create a purchase requisition, or an application area where you have authority to create another document.
Plain English
Application Area An area in SAP such as Purchasing, Human Resources, Plant Maintenance, and so on.
Document The generic name for a standard business form. Although you may be used to thinking of a document as paper, in this sense it refers to an electronic business transaction record. A purchase order is a document, as are a maintenance request and an invoice.
The example used in this lesson is a purchase requisition, which is typical of many other business documents. If your user name doesn't give you the authority to create a purchase requisition, find out what you do have permission to create and use that document as your example.
Caution
Unauthorized Documents It doesn't do any harm to try to create a document that your user name isn't authorized for. You will, however, get an error message on the status bar.