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2926638 - Default delivery date in Purchase order or manual Purchase request

Symptom

While creating a new Purchase Order Manually or while creating a new manual Purchase Request , a delivery date is automatically proposed by the system.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the Purchase Requests and Orders work center
  2. Go to the Common Tasks and select New Purchase Order
  3. Enter the mandatory details
  4. Go to Items section 
  5. Go to Delivery schedule tab
  6. Delivery date is automatically proposed by the system 

or, This is applicable while create a new Purchase order with reference a Purchase request and applicable for Manual Pruchase Request creation as well.

Cause

By considering the generic requirement from multiple customers, the system is designed to propose the delivery date as creation date +7 days. System will calculate the delivery date by default and propose this date suring the creation of the Purchase Order.

Resolution

The delivery date can always be changed manually or via Acknowledgment received.

This is the expected system behaviour.

Keywords

Automatic delivery date, wrong delivery date, delivery date exists, delivery date not empty, delivery date automatically proposed by the system while purchase order creation , KBA , SRD-SRM-PRO , Purchase Requests and Orders , AP-PRP , Purchase Request Processing , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions