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We are getting questions lately about this feature that seems like a nice logical enhancement of the existing 'consolidation' of approved purchase requisitions. This feature would find open Purchase orders for the item-vendor combination that was just approved and would allow the user to update an existing PO to handle the approved requisition line quantity.

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Thank you for your feedback. This is a great suggestion! We will consider this in our roadmap.

 

Sincerely,

 Mai Kirknel

PM, Microsoft 

Comments

M

This would be a great feature to parameterize so one could set at which status (draft, approved, confirmed) it was possible to add new lines to PO. thumbs up

Category: Procurement and Sourcing

M

This has been a requirement with many clients with whom I have worked in the past. This feature will be very useful and if it is parameterised against vendor card as someone suggested will make lot of sense.


The changes on the PO to be version controlled.

Category: Procurement and Sourcing

M

To me, the risks that Alex posed are all related to communication with your vendors and should not be "controlled" by the system.


For the recommended functionality, I think it would be preferable to display the list of POs for a vendor, regardless of items or procurement categories.


 

Category: Procurement and Sourcing

M

Unfortunately I think there are risks with this feature:


1) When the PO is re-issued, how often do we come up with the scenario of the vendor thinking it is a new order rather than an updated one?


2) There may need to be a cut-off time after which the vendor will not accept changes, for example the delivery date of the open PO could be tomorrow and the vendor has already completed their pick and ship activities - how would we control this? This setting may need to be on a vendor by vendor basis.


3) What if there is a PO workflow approval set on the PO to catch any manual changes? Would this be invoked thereby delaying the process and/or confusing the vendor?


I think there is value in this feature but it would need to bring in a level of control to mitigate the risks above.

Category: Procurement and Sourcing