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Fields relevant for the restart of an approved purchase order


By default, workflow retriggers whenever changes to the values of the following fields are made in an approved purchase order:


Fields (applicable to the apps Manage Purchase Orders or Create Purchase Order - Advanced😞




  • Company Code*




  • Purchasing Organization*




  • Purchasing Group*




  • Currency*




  • Incoterms (Header Level) *




  • Plant*#




  • Material Group*#




  • Total Net Order Value*




  • Outline Agreement* #




  • Invoicing Party




    Fields (applicable only to the app Create Purchase Order - Advanced😞




    • Goods Supplier




    • Supplier Subrange




    • Collective Number




    • Validity Start




    • Validity End





      Notes:


      · * indicates that the restart property of the field can be controlled by using the configuration step Manage Conditions to Restart Flexible Workflow. By default, the option to retrigger the workflow is enabled for all the available fields. If you do not want system to restart the approval workflow, then disable the below option.


      · For all other fields where * is not mentioned, the workflow is retrigged whenever their values are updated in an approved purchase order.


      Fields relevant for the restart of a rejected or withdrawn purchase order


      By default, workflow retriggers whenever changes to the values of the following fields are made in a rejected purchase order:


      Fields (applicable to the apps Manage Purchase Orders or Create Purchase Order - Advanced😞




      • Company Code




      • Purchasing Organization




      • Purchasing Group




      • Currency




      • Incoterms (Header Level)




      • Plant#




      • Material Group#




      • Total Net Order Value




      • Outline Agreement#




      • Invoicing Party




        Fields (applicable only to the app Create Purchase Order - Advanced😞




        • Goods Supplier




        • Supplier Subrange




        • Collective Number




        • Validity Start




        • Validity End




          Note: The configuration step Manage Conditions to Restart Flexible Workflow is not applicable to rejected or withdrawn purchase orders.


          General Note (applicable to approved, rejected, and withdrawn purchase orders):


          # indicates (in the marked attributes) that the workflow will be retrigged when the value of the updated attribute is identical in all the purchase order items before or after making the change. See the below table for examples:






          Before Updating the Values




          After Updating the Values




          Will Workflow Retrigger?






          Purchase Order Number: 10001


          Item1: 10, Material Group: A001


          Item2: 20, Material Group: A001




          Purchase Order Number: 10001


          Item1: 10, Material Group: A001


          Item2: 20, Material Group: A002




          Yes






          Purchase Order Number: 10001


          Item1: 10, Material Group: A001


          Item2: 20, Material Group: A002




          Purchase Order Number: 10001


          Item1: 10, Material Group: A003


          Item2: 20, Material Group: A002




          No






          Purchase Order Number: 10001


          Item1: 10, Material Group: A003


          Item2: 20, Material Group: A002




          Purchase Order Number: 10001


          Item1: 10, Material Group: A003


          Item2: 20, Material Group: A003




          Yes






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