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2951181 - Purchase request created from manual data entry has no requester ID/name proposed

Symptom

Purchase request created from manual data entry has no requester ID/name proposed

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Purchase Requests and Orders work center.
  2. Go to Purchase Requests view.
  3. You have enable fields 'Requester ID' and 'Reuqester Name' in the list.
  4. Search for purchase request XYZ (XYZ represents for the purchase request ID).
  5. You find thre is no value displayed under 'Requester ID' and 'Reuqester Name' for purchase request XYZ.

Cause

The requester and recipient information are carried from shopping cart.

If the purchase request is created from scratch, no such value will it hold, hence it will keep blank.

Manual purchase request only have information like 'Buyer Responsible' and 'Created By'.

Resolution

This is a standard behavior.

See Also

3198180 - No approver determined for purchase request

Keywords

Requester ID, Reuqester Name, Purchase request, 采购申请,申请者编号,申请者姓名 , KBA , SRD-SRM-PRO , Purchase Requests and Orders , How To

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions