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3568395 - Change in Purchase Order Delivery Date Without Sending Updated/New PO to Supplier

Symptom

  • The need to make changes in the Purchase Order without these changes being updated to the supplier.
  • Changes to quantities, price, delivery date information in the purchase orders are automatically updated and sent to the Supplier.

Environment

Purchase Order

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Purchase Requests and Orders.
  2. Navigate to the Purchase Orders view.
  3. Search for the relevant purchase order, select it and choose the edit option.
  4. Make changes to quantities, price, delivery date information to the purchase orders.

Cause

  • If an item is added or removed from the purchase order, as well as changes to quantities, price, delivery date will be updated to Supplier.
  • The system is set to automatically notify the supplier when the purchase order is ordered, changed or cancelled.
  • You have the option to enable Prevent Output in new purchase orders. 

Resolution

Follow below given steps to enable Prevent Output in new purchase orders. 

  1. Go to Purchase Requests and Orders.
  2. Navigate to the Common Tasks view and choose the New Purchase Order option.
  3. In the New Purchase Order screen choose the View All button.
  4. Under General tab, you will be able to see Prevent Output check box.
  5. Select this check box to enable the prevent output feature.

Note: This option is only applicable for new purchase orders.

See Also

3436598 - How to Avoid Output Generation in Purchase Order?

Keywords

Purchase Order, Change, Delivery Date, Update, Supplier, Prevent Output, New Purchase Order. , KBA , AP-POP-PO , Purchase Order , Problem

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions