SAP Note 27136 - Purchase requisitions from planning: Text not copied

Symptom:

For purchase requisitions which are created from materials planning (conversion planned order or MRP run), text is not copied from the material master, even if this is in fact specified in Purchasing Customizing (Transaction OMFU, table T165P).

Other terms

ME52, ME53, MD03, MD04, purchase requisition, material text

Reason and Prerequisites

This is not an error. Due to reasons of performance, the system cannot check in the material master whether a text exists each time a purchase requisition is created.

Solution
The text from the material master is displayed in the purchase requisition if the adoption indicator is selected in Customizing (see above). If it is actually to be copied, it must be copied explicitly using Transaction ME52.