Shortclose Material Request – A Summary of the Activity

This activity allows you to select and short close a material request transaction. Material request (MR) is a document for requesting the issue of items from the warehouse. The request can be raised from any department or cost center for issuing the material. Material requests can be created with reference to a sale order, work order or production order or can be made without reference to a base document. If the MR refers to a base document, the reference document number and type are mandatory.

Unutilized reservation of the material will be cancelled on short closing the material request. Short closing a material request transaction enables the user to close the document if the issue is pending partly or has not taken place at all. If the item is dispositionable, firm entries made in the issue column to reserve the material in disposition for need date will be cancelled, thereby canceling the reservation of the material. You can also specify the reason for short closing the MR document. You can short close the material request in bulk or select a particular material request to be short closed. The status of the MR is set as “Short Closed”. Only transactions in “Authorized” status can be short closed.

The “Select MR” page allows you to select a material request transaction for short closing. The “Main Information” page allows you to short close the material request. The “Financial Information” page allows you to specify the financial information for the material request transaction.

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