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Hi All,

I have the below customer requirement in the inter-site flow (Int Purch Trans flow).

Requirement:

In the supply site, the CO is processed line by line. So assume that there are 2 lines in the order.

1.At the supply site, for line no 1, you change the price, deliver the part, and invoice the line. Then, send the order confirmation.

2.Next, Approve the Incoming Purchase Order Confirmation.

3.Then, Update the ‘Promised Delivery Date’ on the PO.

4.Next, change the price, deliver the part, and invoice the line for line no 2.

5.Then, Approve the Incoming Purchase Order Confirmation.

In doing this the 2nd time (for line no 2), the update made to ‘Promised Delivery Date’ on step no 3 for line no 1 is lost, and is replaced with the earlier dates.

So my question is, is there a way to restrict this from happening? Any thoughts to accommodate this? We are using Apps 10, update 8.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Arunalu

Hi,

My understanding is that, this behavior is correct. Because order confirmation is sent from the Supply site for the entire order. If you check the Incoming PO Confirmation, you can check that each message carries information on all lines. 

But if you wish to have separate Promised Del Dates on each PO line, you can send that information from the internal CO itself. Means, you can change the dates accordingly in the internal CO and send order confirmation again. Even in the functional perspective I think that is correct because change shall originate from the supply site. 

Hope this will help.

Thank you. 

Hi,

My understanding is that, this behavior is correct. Because order confirmation is sent from the Supply site for the entire order. If you check the Incoming PO Confirmation, you can check that each message carries information on all lines. 

But if you wish to have separate Promised Del Dates on each PO line, you can send that information from the internal CO itself. Means, you can change the dates accordingly in the internal CO and send order confirmation again. Even in the functional perspective I think that is correct because change shall originate from the supply site. 

Hope this will help.

Thank you. 

Thanks Vimukthi for the reply.

Yes, i do understand that this is the standard functionality. But in my case, at the time of delivering the goods from the supply site, the user doesn’t know the delivery times. After approving the Incoming Purchase Order Confirmation, the buyer on the demand site talks to the shipping firm about the delivery date and update the Promised Delivery Date on the PO line.

Once the CO line is ‘Invoiced/Closed’, it will not allow you to make any changes to these dates and thus, sending the order confirmation again is also not an option.

Hence, my requirement to restrict the changes on the PO line once i have updated the PO line with the Promised Delivery Date for an already ‘Invoiced/Closed’ CO line on the supply site.

Hope this is clear now and appreciate if you have any suggestions on the same.

Thanks and regards,

Arunalu

Hi,

My understanding is that, this behavior is correct. Because order confirmation is sent from the Supply site for the entire order. If you check the Incoming PO Confirmation, you can check that each message carries information on all lines. 

But if you wish to have separate Promised Del Dates on each PO line, you can send that information from the internal CO itself. Means, you can change the dates accordingly in the internal CO and send order confirmation again. Even in the functional perspective I think that is correct because change shall originate from the supply site. 

Hope this will help.

Thank you. 

Thanks Vimukthi for the reply.

Yes, i do understand that this is the standard functionality. But in my case, at the time of delivering the goods from the supply site, the user doesn’t know the delivery times. After approving the Incoming Purchase Order Confirmation, the buyer on the demand site talks to the shipping firm about the delivery date and update the Promised Delivery Date on the PO line.

Once the CO line is ‘Invoiced/Closed’, it will not allow you to make any changes to these dates and thus, sending the order confirmation again is also not an option.

Hence, my requirement to restrict the changes on the PO line once i have updated the PO line with the Promised Delivery Date for an already ‘Invoiced/Closed’ CO line on the supply site.

Hope this is clear now and appreciate if you have any suggestions on the same.

Thanks and regards,

Arunalu

 

Hi Arunalu,

Then it seems, demand site is updating Promised Del Date only for the reference for themselves, cz as you correctly said, it will not update the internal CO which is invoiced. 

Since you are also processing CO lines separately, any new confirmation send from the CO will update the Promised Delivery Date then as you witnessed.

I assume you might also be using different shipments for each CO line delivery, if so what is the possibility of using separate COs each time?

Or else, there could be another possibility which I am not seeing yet or you could post this as a new idea. Perhaps if reported with valid impact, RnD might also consider it as a bug. Fingers crossed. 

Thanks. 

Thanks Vimukthi. I’ll play around with the system a little longer and may be report this if nothing pan out.

Thanks and regards,

Arunalu 

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