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Suggested by Peter Hao Under Review 

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.

 

Status Details

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

Comments (57)
  • If the customer requires approval for large stock replenishment, we need to be able to see the value of a group of selected planned purchase orders, and route a request via workflow with the purchase values. Either that or just add a function to revert the approved po to Draft so we can then use workflow. We should always create the stock transactions.

  • If the customer requires approval for large stock replenishment, we need to be able to see the value of a group of selected planned purchase orders, and route a request via workflow with the purchase values. Either that or just add a function to revert the approved PO to Draft so we can then use workflow. We should always create the stock transactions.

  • We too have a requirement of this kind. We would want the purchase order to be in Draft status so that the workflow can be initiated after the planned PO is firmed.

  • We have this requirement in our business too. We need a formal approval on the purchase order which have been generated by Master Planning
  • Planned Purchase orders have no reference to the financial impact of the order. PO approval workflow is required for the financial liability of the order. Not having this approval for POs firmed from Master planning is a huge risk to our business.
  • This enhancement would ensure companies are compliant with audit requirements for financial controls. Without this currently companies are not compliant
  • This is a requirement for us to be compliant with audit.
  • Must Have!
  • This one comes up all the time but I'm not sure using approvals with Planning is the best option. That seems like a safety net for a bad process. The advantage of Master planning is you control the demand it analyzes to come up with suggested planned orders and actions. So if you authorize the demand, why force approval of the supply you need to fulfill that demand? I think it's a bad use of planning. Master plans should be used to make approved forecasts or approved demand supplying more efficient. Workflow is better suited for orders that come outside of the forecast or S&OP process where demand is less known and cannot be planned for. If you add workflow on top of planned purchase orders, you now have someone reviewing a planned order for quantity and date accuracy, firming it, then someone else has to review it against a budget or approval threshold, they may throw it back, then the dates now are already behind because the approval held it up, and by the time it gets approved, you're properly adjusting dates and quantities anyway. If you involve the entire supply chain in how you create and control master plans, extra workflow approval on top of a supply and demand plan that was already authorized should be unnecessary
  • It is brilliant requirement.