After planned purchase orders are firmed, the ‘Approval status’ is default to ‘Approved’ on purchase order screen, which is skipping the purchase order workflow. Suggest to default the ‘Approval status’ to ‘Draft’ while workflow is enabled; or have a parameter like 'require workflow' to control planned purchase orders. Then the workflow process should work the same way as any other manually created purchase orders.
The reason is: the 'approve' and 'firm' on the planned order screen is normally used by the planning / purchasing department, then workflow is still required from purchase authorisation / financial point of view.
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For me is unbelievable that is missing this basic function: auditors and compliance require an approval workflow for any PO.
If there is no possibility to have an approval workflow also for MRP order, we are not compliant with the basic rules and SOD.
Also it is not clear why Microsoft is completely ignoring hundreds of customer with the same need.
Category: Planning
Our internal controls stipulate that all purchase orders, regardless of how they're created, must go through workflow approval. Just because MRP has suggested a purchase, or someone has created a manual planned PO, it doesn't mean that should bypass workflow - there is a risk of committing the business to spend without appropriate authorisation.
There should at least be a parameter to determine if a business requires approval of planned orders or not.
Category: Planning
This is very much needed, especially in enterprise organizations where there is a higher focus on approvals.
Our Client, with more tahn 45.000 employees is currently thinking about not using the workflow and do custumizations instead, because of this.
This is bad since we have a no custumization approach.
Category: Planning
It should be a very important configuration to be provided for customers, since there's no workaround if anyone really need approval for firmed PO - it exactly is possible to be happened for some enterprises. Please just consider to emhance the function.
Category: Planning
please consider it in road map, as PO from Planned order without go through PO approval workflow is very much not reasonable solutions even though the PO is enabled with PO approval workflow.
Category: Planning
A requirement and general expectation for many companies, I agree
Category: Planning
This would for sure be a nice and worthful extension for the procurement process.
Using workflow rules, you could even let some purchase orders undergo autoapproval, the others could follow the workflow tree to get approved manually.
Keen to see when this would/could be added to the default features.
KR,
Steven
Category: Planning
Is there any update on this please?
Category: Planning
This functionality is crucial for company from audit perspective. All purchase order must be approved. Could you please advise whether this feature is planning to be release soon?
Category: Planning
Vote #371, I confirm also from my experience. Our customers expect this in the D365 FO standard. Thank you in advance for an update.
Category: Planning
Administrator on 2/9/2018 7:36:56 AM
Thank you for your feedback. Currently this is not in our roadmap; however, we are tracking it and if we get more feedback and votes, we may consider it in the future.
Sincerely,
Roxana Diaconu
PM, Microsoft