We have set up intersite purchase orders but do not wish them to be subject to any authorization rules. We have a combination of Project, Position based rules but are trying to avoid the need for a complex set of rules that would require constant administration, as would be the case if we apply any of the ‘usage’ criteria. Does anyone have any suggestion as to how best achieve intersite orders free of authorization rules?
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Hi,
(Even though you have expressed your intention of not using usage criteria), easiest is to use them to achieve what you want.
- You can clear the ‘Apply to all suppliers’ and insert only the external suppliers in your rules. This would need to be updated when you have new suppliers.
- Using Stat groups (if your internal suppliers belong to a common stat group, this is something you can do. If they are not unique identifiers for internal suppliers, hopefully your are not using stat groups already, for example, for posting control, so you can modify them) or Buyers would be lesser administration, as you do not have to update the rules as you create new suppliers.
OR
(this is also not ‘free of auth rules’. Sorry)
- you can set up a highest priority rule only for those internal suppliers.
- Set up a dummy authorizer and a template and attached it to the rule, and set it active.
- When this rule gets fetched to a PO (created for your internal suppliers) you can automatically authorize using the dummy user (or use the supersede) using custom event and an event action. So no one needs to wait for actual authorization to occur.
Hope this helps,
Asanka
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