What is one integration point when a purchase order (PO) is saved?

When a purchase order (PO) is saved in SAP S/4HANA, one significant integration point is that a commitment is made in Controlling (CO). This commitment reflects the financial obligation that the company incurs when it enters into a purchasing agreement with a supplier, which is essential for accurate financial reporting and budget management.

When the purchase order is created and saved, it triggers immediate updates in the system that record an expected future cost in the accounting segments. This is managed through the commitment management functionality in the Controlling module, ensuring that the organization budgets effectively and that there is clear visibility of resources allocated for future purchases. This linkage ensures that all planned expenditures related to the purchase orders are reflected in the appropriate financial reports, impacting budgetary controls and analyses.

The other choices, while they might be relevant in different contexts, do not specifically represent integration points involved in the immediate process of saving a purchase order. For example, automatic communication with the vendor or updates to inventory values may occur as subsequent steps in the workflow but are not direct outcomes of the action of saving the purchase order. Likewise, the on-order stock report updates are relevant but not as immediate as the financial commitments recorded in CO upon saving the PO.