3301540 - Error Appears While Trying to Approve the Purchase Order

As an approver, you are trying to approve the purchase order and got an error message.

Error: Contract not available as source of supply

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1. Login as an Approver
2. Go to Managing My Area work center
3. Go to Approvals view
4. Select the relevant purchase order 
5. Click on Approve button and error appears

The purchase order was already approved and sent. However you have added a new purchase order line item which is assigned to source of supply Purchase Contract. The contract is not available because the status of the Contract is Closed. And all the line item status is set to Inactive for Sourcing and hence the error appears.

All the items in the purchase order is linked to closed contract, you will face an error while creating follow up documents. Since the purchase order is in In Approval status, you can Reject it, so that entire purchase order status will be set to Rejected. Later you can create a new purchase order and use cctive contract as a source of supply.

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