Purchase Order Enhancements

[bradth]

In Transactions > Purchasing > Purchase Order Entry, there is the "Approval Status" dropdown. I believe that this feature is included in the Purchase Order Enhancements module in Great Plains. What I would like to know is, Is there some way to set-up how or what will set the PO to become unapproved if it already has been approved? Here's our problem. We have PO's that already have been approved. However, one small change will need to be made such as changing the date to one day ahead, or something small in that matter. When this is changed, the PO then becomes unapproved, and the PO has to be sent back out to our purchasing group to be re-approved. Anyone have any idea how to filter or limit what will cause a PO to become unapproved? It is a huge pain having to re-approve PO's multiple times. Thanks.

Brad

 

[Luvsql]

This is annoying. The PO approval is only based on Dollar amounts, so why would changing anything that doesn't affect the dollar amount, affect the approval status? I guess their reasoning is that once a PO has been approved, all information is being checked and approved ie the person approving could have opened the PO and fixed errors etc. You then wouldn't want the user to go in and change it again and still be able to print it.

The only suggestion I would have is to modify the PO dates in the backend (via sql), thus not affecting the status.

 

[bradth]

Ya, it's been a real pain becuase even if an order is post-poned or the shipment is set back one day, the order needs to be re-approved, meaning that someone has to go through the order again, and re-approve it. This would be ok if there were only one or 2 PO's, but if there's ten's or hundreds of them, it becomes a job in itself just re-approving orders. Thanks anyways though.

Brad