3070935 - Status of PO in app 'Manage Purchase Order' is not clear

Status of PO in app 'Manage Purchase Order' is not clear.

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Open app 'Manage Purchase Order' to check status of PO.

More details about design logic can be found below.

This field is control by value of PurchasingDocumentStatus

1st level: header.PurchasingDocumentDeletionCode
The Purchase order will be marked as deleted => Deleted
The PO Header status will be changed to 'deleted', if the whole PO is getting the deletion flag in EKKO-LOEKZ( = 'X'    or  = 'L' ).

This field will be only updated by the archiving process.

If all items of a PO are set as deleted, this does not update the EKKO-LOEKZ.

2nd level: header.PurchasingCompletenessStatus
Do not mix it up with technical drafts with Fiori App => Draft
PO is not completed and in status held. The PO was created but could not be saved without errors, but was parked for later usage. 

3rd level: header.PurchasingProcessingStatus
Status is set to rejected => Rejected
If the PO is send to approval and was rejected.

4th level: header.ReleaseIsNotCompleted
Set status to in approval => In Approval
If the PO approval is still ongoing, no decision was taken yet

5th level om_error.output_error
Set status to output error => Output Error
In case the PO was approved and should be send, but during output creation an error occurred.

6th level: pos_ekbe.FollowDocsExist
If there are follow-on documents like Goods Reciept or Service Entry Sheet set status to Follow-On Doucments => Follow-On Documents

7th level: om_new.msg
Set status to Sent => Sent
If there is an output message send (new output management).

8th level: case om_old.msg
Set status to Sent => Sent
If there is an output message send (old output management).

9th level other case
Set status to Not Sent Yet = > Not Sent Yet
If everything is fine, but no output was send (no error, but scheduling for example).

KBA , MM-PUR-PO , Purchase Orders , Problem

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