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I recently add an issue working on a case for a big prospect. This prospect already have extensive authorizations rules for purchase requests and purchase orders.

1- one of its rule is that the requester is part to all the authorization process from the request to the order.

In the Purchase authorization basic data, you can select the requisitioner as authorization type.

 

It works perfectly for un purchase requisition authorization rule … didn’t work at all with a purchase order authorization rule.  There is no error message, the line with the requisitioner just didn’t show up!

The requisitioner is no more a rule available for the purchase order authorization rules. 

PURCHASE REQUISITION AUTHORIZATION RULES

 

PURCHASE ORDER AUTHORIZATION RULES

 

For me, the Purchase order authorization rules should have at least the same usage rules than the requisition rules, plus extra criteria that could make sense.  We should be in position to run the same rules in the purchase than in the requisition!

=> is there any plan to add the requisitioner in the purchase authorization order rules?  ? some others solutions (SAP, ..) handle it for every step of the purchase flow,

 

2- This prospect also has rules bases on Business unit, region, … and other criteria

I found a solution with a setting of the Purchase requisition authorization rules based on pre-posting.

 

When I want to set it up for purchase order authorization rules the same way ..

 

I didn’t have the tab to setup the rules based on preposting !!!!

=> is there any plan to fix it?                                                    

 

Regards 

Alain

 

 

 

 

 

Hi Alain,

 

I can relate as we too have one of our customers implementing IFS at the moment requiring having authorization rules based on Division/Department etc. where the solution I could provide was the use of Pre-postings in PR. They raise PR and not PO so we could stick with it. The reason behind PO Authorization Rules not accommodating pre-postings is because PR authorization takes place for each PR line while on the PO it is for the whole of PO. A PO can have lines coming from different PR where the pre-postings on lines can be different from each other. Therefore, it is then not possible to have it as an evaluation criterion on the PO. 

However, I understand that a common practice for businesses would be to have a PO or a PR raised for one division/department/business unit etc. It will not have lines from different division/department/business unit. It would be great if you can log this as an Idea so that IFS may evaluate it for development in a future version. If you do log this, please let me know so that I can also add to it that this is a valid requirement we too have come across.

 

Regards,

Sudara 


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