SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

3619181 - Purchase Order output not triggered after changing delivery address in PO item

Symptom

A purchase order has already been dispatched to the supplier, where the delivery address for the PO item is manually entered. If the purchaser updates the manual delivery address—without making any other changes—and then saves and places the order again, the output for the purchase order will not be generated.

Environment

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2502

Reproducing the Issue

1. Launch the ‘Manage purchase orders’ or ‘Change purchase order-Advanced’ application.

2. Navigate to the item tab and modify the "Delivery Address" details.

3. Verify the output status in the "Output Management" field located in the purchase order header. (→ No update detected because of the Manual delivery address modification). And no change output is generated.

Note: delivery address field are enabled in SSCUI - Fields Relevant to Printouts of Change (102272)

Cause

From a technical perspective, changes made to a manually entered delivery address are treated as modifications to the address entity, which is linked to the Purchase Order entity but is not a direct component of it—unlike fields such as net amount or supplier. Due to this technical limitation, changes to the manual address do not trigger a change output.  

Resolution

Add/change item text along with delivery address changes in the PO item. With this, PO output 

Keywords

KBA , MM-FIO-PUR-PO-OM-2CL , Purchase Order Output Management (Public Cloud) , How To

Product

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2502