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3336892 - PO can be created from PR (based on SO) despite Sales Order status should not allow PO creation - SAP ERP & S/4HANA

Symptom

You notice the following issue during Purchase Order (PO) conversion from Purchase Requisition (PR).

PRs are generated from Sales Orders (SO) and you use header level Status Profile with different statuses to allow or prevent different follow-up process steps.

In a specific status you set the PR generation allowed and the PO creation not permitted.

Despite this setup (status) the PO can be generated from the PR in transaction ME58, ME59N and also in the relevant Fiori tile.


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Environment

•Materials Management (MM)
•SAP ERP Central Component
•SAP ERP
•SAP enhancement package for SAP ERP
•SAP enhancement package for SAP ERP, version for SAP HANA
•SAP S/4HANA

Product

SAP ERP all versions ; SAP S/4HANA all versions

Keywords

SO, PO, status profile, ME59N, ME58, Fiori, PR, PR to PO conversion, prevent, permit, PO creation, 3rd party SO, sales order, purchase order, purchase requisition , ME21N , ME22N , KBA , MM-PUR-PO , Purchase Orders , SD-SLS-SO-TP , Third-party order processing , MM-PUR-GF-TP , Third Party Order Processing , Problem

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