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3156988 - Purchase Order Approval is not Triggered when one of the line items in the order is Cancelled

Symptom

Approval is not triggered when one of the line items in existing purchase order(PO) is canceled.

The Business configuration scoping question is set :Do you want to allow approval process for Purchase Order Cancellation?

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Purchase Requests and Orders work center
  2. Create a new purchase order with multiple line items
  3. Order the PO.
  4. The approval is triggered and once approval is completed, PO status becomes sent.
  5. Now cancel one of the line items in the order
  6. Send Update
  7. Purchase order approval is not triggered.

Cause

If anything is cancelled at item level, then approval is not triggered. But if all the items are cancelled, i.e. the PO is completely canceled, then it triggers approval.

Hence the scoping question: "Do you want to allow approval process for Purchase Order Cancellation?" works only at header level and not at item level at the moment.

Resolution

This requirement can be checked with PDI partner if they can create a custom approval for the business use-case.

OR

This can be posted as a new requirement in the customer influence forum: https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#/campaign/886

This is our official channel to address all new requirements. If multiple customers vote for the same idea, the concerned development team will check the feasibility of implementing this functionality in future. The status of the the new requirement idea can be checked in the forum. 

Keywords

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Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions