3436464 - Purchase Order Status is Finished before Invoice is Posted

You have created a supplier invoice with respect to a purchase order but have not posted the invoice yet. However, the purchase order status is already showing Finished.

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1. Go to Supplier Invoicing work center
2. Select Invoices and Credit Memos view
3. You can see the invoice status is in exception or in process
4. Now go to Purchase Requests and Orders work center
5. Select view Purchase Orders
6. Search for the relevant Purchase Order
7. Status is Finished

The supplier invoice is created for the total quantity and amount, hence the order status got changed to Finished.

This is standard system behavior, the order status will change to Finished as soon as invoice gets created for the complete quantity and amount.

You can use the standard report : "Purchase Order History" where you have many fields like purchase order item and for each item you can add fields like document id , document type which displays relevant  delivery , invoice for each line item and document status which shows the status of delivery or invoice for that particular PO item.

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