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Changing Receipt Date

Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 21:10:57 -0700 (PDT)
From: FMT firas70@yahoo.com
Subject: Wrong date for reciept !

Hi,

We have entered a PO in a date that is 3 periods prior to the current date .. the promised date, shipment and distribution date are the same.

When creating a reciept, The end-user entered it in the current date and did not enter the actual date of recieval!

We are looking for the best way to change the reciept date to suite the actual date which is the PO date.

One of the propesed solutions is to return the materials to supplier and creating a new reciept?

Any Comments ??
Firas Al Tamimi
ADWEA


Vendor Rescheduling

Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 19:37:36 +0300
From: "Cohen, Dan" Dan_Cohen@icomverse.com
Subject: PO:Vendor Rescheduling

We are working on Release 11.02

In our PO life cycle we use to maintain the vendor date and the promised date many times due to lots of changes in the supplements of our vendors the demands of our customers. In every such a change the revision of the PO is increased and the status is changed to 'requires re-approval'. This fact causes us to deal with a lot of re-approvals during the day.

We are looking for a resolution which will enable us to decide at what changes the PO status will be changed to 'requires re-approval', and to be able to decide that in particular tolerances of changes the PO status will remain 'approved'.

Any information will be appreciated.

Regards, Danny Cohen


Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 10:03:08 +0100
From: Peter Wolyniec pwolyniec@edenconsulting.co.uk
Subject: RE: Vendor Rescheduling

Hi Danny,

You're problem is well catered for in Workflow, which as a r11 site you are using within Purchasing.

You need to setup the Workflow Builder so you can modify the existing workflows that operate underneath your Purchasing environment. I believe the one you're interested in is the PO Approval workflow. You can change the tolerances to suit your needs with the builder and then make sure that that workflow is assigned to all required document types.

Hope this helps.
Pete W.


Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 20:00:08 +0300
From: "Cohen, Dan" Dan_Cohen@icomverse.com
Subject: RE: Vendor Rescheduling

Peter,

As I understand, according to your suggestion we have to change the code in the system, is it right? Our policy is to prevent coding of customizations as much as we can. Is there any workaround that Oracle suggest without customization?

Regards, Danny Cohen



Contractural Vs Expected Shipment Date

Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 22:55:02 +0300
From: "Dina Rotem (h)" dinar@rafael.co.il
Subject: PO: Contractural Vs Expected Shipment Date

We are implementing Manufacturing, Purchasing & Payables in release. Our business requirement is to record on a purchase order shipment the due date which was agreed with the supplier and defined as the contractual date. Changes of that date should be done only by a change order mode, where both parties agreed to change that date.

The business procedures are to track the supplier performance by comparing the actual receiving date with the contractual date. In some cases the supplier would be fined for late delivery, meaning he will be getting penalties deducted from his invoices.

On the other end the planner would want to know the expected date of delivery, as soon as possible. The buyer may know of expected dates for the future shipments, and should hence change promised date on the PO, so MRP will be able to get that. However, changes in the promised date are treated as expected date for planning purposes, and should not be affecting the contractual date.

How do you maintain the contractual date on Oracle Purchasing? Does the need-by-date a good solution for that?

Dina


Charge Account Generator error

Charge Account Generator error on creating a PO

Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 20:04:52 +0530
From: Chandrashekar S SSChandra@inf.com
Subject: PO Charge Account Generator error

Hi all,

We recently upgraded PO module from 10.7SC -11.0.1 -11.0.2. We chose the second option i.e "Apply Patches to Individual Modules" to upgrade from 11.0.1 to 11.0.2.

When we try to create a PO, Account Generator is supposed to automatically generate the PO Charge Account. But this is not happening. Instead we have to manually enter the code combination for PO Charge Account. After entering this, the PO Variance Account & PO Accraul Accounts are created automatically. Can somebody explain this behaviour ? Is this a known bug ? Are there any patches to be applied ?

Further we want to customize the "Build PO Charge Account" procress. According to R11 release notes, all 8 item types of PO have consolidated into two Item types namely "PO Account Generator" & another for PO requisitions. In the Account Assignments screen of AOL, these two Item types do not appear. instead the old 8 item types appear. Our doubt is which Item Type needs to be customized ? The old "PO Charge Account Generator" or the new "PO Account Generator" ?

Any inputs on these would be greatly appreciated.

Chandrashekar.S


Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 14:26:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jason Chan jchan14@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: PO Charge Account Generator error

Without knowing the way your PO module and WF are set up, I don't know why the PO Charge Account is not being generated. However, the reason for the Variance Account and Accrual Account to be generated is that they automatically default to the Charge Account code combination unless specifically replaced. So, the Variance and Accrual Account Generators are working as designed.

As far as customizing the PO Charge Account Generator, you need to do the customization in the consolidated "PO Account Generator"!! Any changes you made to the individual account generators will be a waste of time. The fact that the consolidated "PO Account Generator" and "PO Req Account Generator" do not appear in the Account Assignment screen is a known bug. Oracle Support has a patch to seed these two Account Generators so they will show up in the screen.

I hope this info will help.

Jason Chan
i2 Technologies


Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 13:35:15 +0530
From: Dilip Fauzdar DilipFauzdar@inf.com
Subject: RE: PO Charge Account Generator error

Dear Jason,

We contacted the Oracle for Patch as per your advice.Oracle sent us the patch 848186.But even after applying this patch we are not able to see consolidated PO item types in ACCOUNT ASSIGNMENT screen.We are on Release 11 on Sun Solarisis.Is this the correct patch.If you have the correct patch then can you send the *.zip file to us.

Thank you very much for your help.
regards
dilip
Infosys Technologies ltd, India



Charge Account error on Receiving goods

Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 09:21:38 PDT
From: Piero Bertuzzi pbertuz@hotmail.com
Subject: Problems With Flexbuilder in Receiving Goods URGENT

We have implemented Oracle Purchasing in release 10.7SC version 16.1 We have customized the Purchase Order Charge Account with the flexbuilder.

The Charge Account was generate correctly from the flexbuilder function and the order can be approved.

The problem appears when we receive goods through the Receiving Form.

The program decreases correctly the Organization Expense account but increases the Expense Account Defined in Master Items, instead of the Purchase Order Charge Account.

Any suggestion is appreciated.
Thanks
Piero Bertuzzi
Oracle Manufacturing Consultant
Engisoft S.p.A. Milan (Italy)


Building Charge Accounts

Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 16:14:00 -0500
From: Tom Wyatt tom.wyatt@sitel.com
Subject: Flexbuilder Help

If there is anyone out there who can assist me in building my PO Charge Account utilizing flexbuilder, could you please respond to me directly. I am trying to utilize a descriptive FF attribute to place a value in my AFF and I am receiving a Circular Reference error and OWWS is providing no assistance.

Thank you.


View note - not visible in AP

Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 11:26:20 -0600
From: "Newitt, Mike/COR" mnewitt@CH2M.com
Subject: AP: View note attached to PO when matching

10.7 NCA

The Purchasing ref manual says a note to Payables can be attached to a PO and viewed in AP when matching the PO to an invoice. I attached the note to the PO successfully (to both header and line levels) with the proper 'To Payables' usage, but can't see it anywhere in AP when entering an invoice and matching the invoice to the PO. Anyone have this working? If so, where exactly in the invoice entry form can the attachment be viewed?


Debit Note & Receipt amount mismatch

Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 12:42:00 +0500
From: dhirajr@calpst.niit.co.in
Subject: PO and AP

Hi guys....

I just wanted to know how this situation is handled in Oraccle Apps... pls help. In Ap while raqising aN invoice i match it with the PO and the Reciept Not then subsequently i raise a Debit note against that invoice and reduce the amount.... which would have its impact in the Receipt note as it would be recd at the original rate and hence it would be overvalued.... will Oracle apps automatically rectify the valuation of the material to the rectified rate? pls let me know

regards


Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 07:20:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ravi Krishnamurthy ravi_krishna@rocketmail.com
Subject: Re: PO and AP

Dhiraj,

You may be able to do that if you match your debit memo to the purchase order shipment. Otherwise, the impact is limited only to the invoice distributions.

HTH.
Ravi K.


Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 10:27:48 +300500
From: BPL-UPTRON_Team@india.notes.pwa.co.in
Subject: Re: PO and AP

In such scenario raise a debit note and rematch it to PO with negative qunatity in case you wan't to treat as a return and if you just wan't to treat it as a price correction, in that case do shipment price correction.

If this correction is in relation to return of material, than first return the material and then perform this, since AP doesn't have anyimpact on valuation.

Hope this helps
Navin Gupta



Unable to Approve PO after Reserving it (App 14056 error)

Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 17:30:56 PDT
From: Pandya Maruti vijaay@hotmail.com
Subject: PO APPROVE ...

Hi All,

My user is facing a strange problem. She has created the Purchase requisition and RESERVED it and FORWARDED to the APPROVER. Everything looks OK till this stage and user has created many requisitions this way. But when Approver tries to Approve that document, he gets error :

APP-14056 : User Exit # PO REQUEST_ACTION returned error

Can anybody help in this ?

Thanks in advance.
Pandya .


Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 04:48:16 PDT
From: Greg Dietrich gc_dietrich@hotmail.com
To: vijaay@hotmail.com, oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: Re: PO APPROVE ...

Hi Pandya,

We're facing this problem as well, but not when approving requisitions. We get the same error message when trying to approve PO's and Blanket Releases. It's strange b/c the same users have created and approved many POs and releases without any issues, but some documents get this error.

I have a TAR open with Oracle Support on this, but they haven't been very helpful. The 14056 message is very generic and they have thousands of hits on it when they do a query of their database. It's seems like every client has had to find a different way to resolve the problem. Support sent me a checklist of 10 things to look at, none of which were applicable to us. (I've included the list at bottom)

We have found a partial resolution to this problem. In our environment we are interfacing with Indus's Enterprise MPAC software. We determined that we were only getting this error on POs and Releases that were created from Requisition that originated in E-MPAC and came through to Oracle via the interface. When drilling deeper we found that the requisitions on the E-MPAC side were not matching to the requisition on the Oracle side. There was an integration issue and the req had actually failed in the interface. We were able to go back to E-MPAC and resend the req through. This solved the problem.

But, we still have POs and releases that continue to get the error which are related to requisitions that did NOT fail the import. We are stilling trying to resolve these.

If you are creating reqs in another system that interfaces with Oracle, I would start by validating that the integration is working properly. If there is no integration, I think the UOM item mentioned in the note by Oracle Support (see #8 below) is the most interesting. Make sure that your UOM are consistant and valid.

If you have further questions you can email me directly at gregdiet@us.ibm.com or call me at 313.628.2516.

Regards,
Greg

******START OF NOTE FROM ORACLE SUPPORT********

Many ct who encountered this error (APP-14056) got issues resolved by going through the following checlist.

1. Increase the value of maxextents for two indexes on the MTL_SUPPLY table (NV.MTL_SUPPLY_N11 and INV.MTL_SUPPLY_N12).

2. Check the MTL_SUPPLY table for invalid entries.

3. Check document setup to ensure that the forwarding method is defined. If using Hierarchy, choose "Hierarchy" else choose "Direct". If blank, set the forwarding method to "Direct" of "Hierarchy".

4. If using the Profile Option "PO: Document Approval Mode" is set to "Document Approval Manager", you may want to switch to "Standard User Exit".

5. Check the following in SQLPLUS. They should only return one row each:
SQLselect count (*) from sys.dual;
SQLselect count (*) from system.dual;

If you get more than one row, delete the extra row.

6. Value for Owner can approve may be null instead of being Yes/No.
(Navigation: Setup/Purchasing/Document Types)
Try turning setting on in GUI.

7. Turn Hierarchy off and back on again; from the Control alternative region in the Purchasing Options form select none for Security Hierarchy. Save, logoff, log back on, turn Hierarchy back on, run the Fill Hierarchy report.

8. Make sure the unit of measure (UOM) is set.

9. Check Document Type Menu in GUI (under Purchasing)

Select Requisition, Purchase
Check attributes
Check Owner can Approve
Fill in Forward Method

10. Check to see that the sequence MRP_RELIEF_INTERFACE_S is not less than the TRANSACTION_ID in the MRP_RELIEF_INTERFACE table as follows:

SQL select TRANSACTION_ID from mrp_relief_interface;
SQL select SEQUENCE_NAME, MAX_VALUE, LAST_NUMBER from
dba_sequences
where SEQUENCE_NAME like 'MRP_RELIEF_INTERFACE_S';
The following will bump the sequence number by the increment
setup for the sequence.
SQL select MRP_RELIEF_INTERFACE_S.nextval from dual;

Thanks,
Joe
*******END OF NOTE FROM ORACLE SUPPORT********


Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 07:14:35 -0500
From: "Schaefer, Mike" MSchaefer@sandc.com
Subject: RE: PO APPROVE ...

When we see a APP-14056 it generally has meant that the user failed to provide a need-by-date.


Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 12:35:02 +0200
From: Amber Allen-Sauer amber@allen-sauer.com
Subject: RE: PO APPROVE ...

Pandya -

Be sure and do \Help, Error, Database to get the specific error that is occurring. It could have been any number of errors or custom raise application messages and only by doing the above will you see the full error message.

Has your company added any triggers to po_headers_all or customized the PO or PO Approval screen?

Amber
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Amber Allen-Sauer
Allen-Sauer Consulting, INC
email: amber@allen-sauer.com
web: http://www.allen-sauer.com



Special Pricing for Inventory Purchases

Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 12:17:53 -0400
From: "Teresa K. Purdy" TPurdy@datavision.com
Subject: Special Pricing for Inventory Purchases

Hello All -

We are a computer hardware distributor implementing 11.0.2 NT. We often receive special pricing on standard products from our vendors on inventory that we purchase in large quantities for specific customer orders. We have 2 issues:

How will Purchasing know to buy this standard product at a special price for this specific customer order? Requisitions are currently generated from the min/max planning because the demand for this product comes from OE.

We have a second issue with respect to the average cost that is impacted by purchasing at different price points. Any suggestions as to solutions for this issue?

Thanks!!! Teresa K. Purdy Datavision - Prologix, Inc. 215.442.7400 x1


Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 10:19:25 PDT
From: Ananth Swaminath ananth999@hotmail.com
Subject: Reply: Special Pricing for Inventory Purchases

Hi Teresa

Have you examined the Drop Shipment functionality?

Ananth
Senior Applications Consultant



PO Release Printing Problem

Subject: PO: PO Release Printing Problem
Date: 6/9/99 4:10 PM

When we attempt to print a release the whole contract prints. Some of our contracts can be a hundred pages. Oracle does not have a current solution for this problem. Has anyone come up with a custom solution? We print a lot of release and do not want to print the contract. Any help would be appreciated.


Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 14:17:34 -0500
From: Mandar Dewoolkar-G1606C Mandar_Dewoolkar-G1606C@email.mot.com
Subject: Re: PO: PO Release Printing Problem

We have a custom PO print program that doesnot print the Blanket Orders. It just prints Standard orders and Releases. You could do something like that and have another program that prints just the Contracts.

Mandar


Vendor rescheduling

Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 11:13:10 +0300
From: "Cohen, Dan" Dan_Cohen@icomverse.com
Subject: PO:Vendor Rescheduling

We are working on Release 11.02

In our PO life cycle we use to maintain the vendor date and the promised date many times due to lots of changes in the supplements of our vendors and the demands of our customers. In every such a change the revision of the PO is increased and the status is changed to 'requires re-approval'. This fact causes us to deal with a lot of re-approvals during the day.

We are looking for a resolution which will enable us to decide at what changes the PO status will be changed to 'requires re-approval', and to be able to decide that in defined tolerances of changes in the vendor date the PO status will remain 'approved'.

Any information will be appreciated.

Regards,
Danny Cohen


From: Dina Rotem [SMTP:dinar@rafael.co.il]
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 1999 6:58 PM
To: Dan_Cohen@icomverse.com
Subject: PO:Vendor Rescheduling

Danny Shalom

We in Rafael are concerned with the same issue, and looking for solutions. Are you live on production with Purchasing already?

You mentioned in your mail a term "vendor date". What do you mean by that? Which Oracle field is reflecting that? Do you use a concept of "contractual date" which is different from the promised date? If so, how did you implemented that?

Best Regards
Dina


Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 09:24:38 +0300
From: "Cohen, Dan" Dan_Cohen@icomverse.com
Subject: RE: Vendor Rescheduling

Hi Dina,

1) We are in production with Manufacturing (most of the modules) And Finance (GL, AP, AR) since March '99.
2) The 'Vendor Date' I talk about is a flexfield that updates the promised date. The problem is actually the changes in the Promised Date whenever we reschedule the PO line.
3) The difference between the Vendor Date and the Promised Date is shipment time (different in import and local PO's).

Regards,
Danny Cohen



Use of Requisition Template

Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 19:55:51 PDT
From: Basanta Kumar Dash dashbk@hotmail.com
Subject: PO: Use of Requisition Template

Hi All,

Does anybody know how to make use of requisition template in Rel 11. I know we can use it through Web Requisition. But, I cannot find anything in the standard PO Screens. I want to make use of the template to reserve PO number for emergency PRs.

Is there any other way that PO numbers can be reserved for emergency PRs without using Web Requisitions?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Basanta.