Our current purchase order types include the Print Purchase Invoice step. What happens if we remove that step from the order type (would that change anything financially or prevent us from something?) I have been having difficulty finding out what that specifically does in the system.

This step can be removed since it has got no affect on finance at all. It is often used to have a "final step" before orders are processed and written to order history.

Regards - Kai

It true that removing Print PO Invoice would have no effect financially but by removing it, you would no longer be able to change prices after PO receipts.

but only if PO´s are processed, not just because the step is missing...

Kai

I apologize for not getting replying earlier, but I was thrown into a project that has taken priority.

Thank you for your responses.

Kaibou can you explain your last comment in a little more detail? Are you saying that if you do not have Print Purchase Invoices as an order step you can still change prices on PO lines after PO receipts?

This project was placed on the back burner for a while, but now i'm nearly complete. I've found that as long as the Process Delivered Purchase Order session has not run, the users are able to use the Maintain Prices/Discounts After Maintain Receipts to change prices.

What I've done is create a session that looks for PO receipt lines with:
tdpur045.spur = 9 (ready for process delivered purchase orders or at deleting line)
tdpur045.stsd = 3 (AP has matched and approved the line)
tdpur045.pmsk like '%y%' (so that it excludes lines already processed by process delivered purchase orders)
and then use AFS to selectively process delivered purchase orders only for those PO's.

Now all we have to do is create the new order types (removing the Print Purchase Invoice step) and start using them.

Thank you for all of your help.

Is there a way to disable the currently used purchase order types so that users will only use the new ones?

Hi Eddie,

The only built in way to do it would be through table field authorization

Rgds,
Paul

Thanks Paul... Overlooked that idea. I'll have to give it some thought. Thanks!