Many customers want to control their purchases using an approval workflow. Purchase Order generated from Direct Delivery is unable to go into Workflow.

However, the Workflow remains disabled.

Customers extensively uses Purchase requisitions for purchases. And change management can be used to trig workflow approval for PO ONLY if this PO is not created as direct delivery.

Idea would be to adapt standard to allow usage of change management whatever the delivery type. Workflow approval for PO would be more consistent.

This is still a significant issue for companies with formal delegation of authority rules for expenditure approvals.