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PO not getting approved

Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 05:28:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: Arvind C oraarv@yahoo.com
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: Approving Purchasing Orders

Hello Folks
We are on Oracle Apps R11.0.2 on NT. The modules installed are GL, AP, AR, OE, INV, MRP, BOM, WIP, FA and PO. We are encountering some following problems regarding po Approvals. We are unable to approve the PO even when the Owner can approve is set to yes.

Even after the apporval action is okay, the PO still remains on the PO screen with status incomplete The notification screen gives the message that Approvor cannot be found, assign the correct approvor and forward the doucment

Can anybody give any suggestion to the following problems. We are not using the workflow and are not customising the account generator..

Thanks in Advance
Bhujang Rao Satyam Enterprise Solutions


Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 08:17:55 -0500
From: Terry_Woodson@taylorbigred.com
Subject: Re: Approving Purchasing Orders

Are you using hierarchies? If you are, be sure the owner has a dollar limit set. Also, make sure the approval flow process is set to forward the PO to the right person on the next step up. Terry


Date: Tue, 13 Jul 99 08:58:43 -0800
From: cbarter@guthy-renker.com
Subject: Re: Approving Purchasing Orders

Bhujang:

I have expereinced this problem also. In our case the problems was with the PO containing incorrect date. The warehouse in the shipments alternative region was not pointing to a correct inventory org. Once I deleted this line (because we could not change it, the field was protected against update), we added a new line to the PO with the correct org and our problem disappeared.

Hope this helps!


Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 09:13:21 -0400
From: "Obiorah, Titus" tobiorah@doubleclick.net
Subject: RE: Approving Purchasing Orders

Couple tips;

Be sure to run the 'Fill employee process'
Scrutinize your approval groups. Make sure that all fields for the account range are Completely filled out including all ranges.
Try defining separate approval group for all Approvers.
Be sure to create all approvers as users.

Ti

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Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 10:47:09 +0500
From: fariha afreen fafreen@ora-tech.com
Subject: Approval of purchasing documents

Hi all,

We are on release 11.0.28 for windows NT4. The problem is regarding approval of purchasing documents i..e requisition,po . We consulted oracle australia,they sent a patch for that.The patch was applied but nothing happened.Again, they reported bug no.944522. now what happens is on clicking the approval button (requisition or PO), the message appears that the action has completed successfully but the status remains Incomplete (the document approval manager is running).This is now becoming somewhat frustrating. Can anyone help.

Thanks in advance for any help.
Regards, Fariha.

Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 12:01:47 +0000
From: shafiqr@sa.ibm.com
Subject: Re: Approval of purchasing documents

Rel 11 uses Oracle Workflow for Approval of Documents. Login as sysadmin and run concurrent request Workflow background Prcosess for approval of PO and Requisitions using parameters (REQAPPRV, , , Y, Y,) and (POAPPRV, , , Y, Y) respectively.

Shafiq ur Rehman
BSS Consultant
PO Box 818
Riyadh 11421
KSA


Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 14:44:49 +0500
From: fariha afreen fafreen@ora-tech.com
Subject: Re: Approval of purchasing documents

We submitted the request Workflow background process twice using Requisition approval & PO approval as the parameter.But it did not work. Our profile option Workflow Process was set to Online before where the status of a requisition or Po used to remain incomplete nomatter how many times they were sent for approval. This time, first we changed the option to Background after which the requisition & PO were sent for approval.Surprisingly, this time round, the status changed to In process. After that, we submitted the Workflow Background request. On completion of the said request, the status of the requisition & the PO changed again to Incomplete.
Any idea ???

Thanks for your help so far. Fariha


Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:03:33 +0000
From: shafiqr@sa.ibm.com
Subject: Re: Approval of purchasing documents

Hi afreen,

I am sure you must have completed your Purchasing Setup still I will request you please check following:
Setup-Approvals-Approval Assigments
Setup-Approvals-Approval Groups
Pls let me know the approvals method you are using . Is this PO Approval Heirarchy or Supervisor/manager relationship. Check the person who is defined as buyer is having enough approval limits i.e. he can approve on certain account and category you are using for that PO.
You approval can fail on any of the following
Document total
Account range
category
item range
location
Please let me know if you are getting any message on Workflow notififications screen. Also check Work flow status

Best of luck Regards,
Shafiq ur Rehman
Sr. Business Analyst
IBM/Lucent TEP6 Project
PO Box 818
Riyadh 11421
Saudi Arabia
Phone: +966 1 4194962 x 337
email:shafiq_rehman@hotmail.com


Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 15:24:50 +0300
From: "Lavy, Shay" Shay_lavy@icomverse.com
Subject: RE: Approval of purchasing documents

As for purchase requisition, we had a similar problem on 11.0.1 The solution was adding "PO Requisition Approval" as an "Approval Workflow" and as "Auto-create Workflow". All this should be done in Purchasing == Set-up == Purchasing == Document types. We did not understand the setup requirements, but it seems that it solved our problem. You're welcome to try.

Regards,
Shay Lavy
ITA Department
Comverse Network Systems
Phone no. : 972-(0)3-765-5794
Cell Phone: 972-(0)51-325794
E-mail : shay_lavy@icomverse.com mailto:shay_lavy@icomverse.com


Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 09:57:47 -0400
From: "Annette Anost" aanost@goodegg.com
Subject: Re: Approval of purchasing documents

We are on release 11.02 and when I went to look for the current process of "Workflow Background Process" it was not listed when navigating to Manager / Administer.

The only current process that I see listed and running is PO Document Approval Manager. How do I get this program to run?


Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 17:12:04 +0000
From: shafiqr@sa.ibm.com
Subject: Re: Approval of purchasing documents

From Sys Admin Navigate to Request -- Run
This will take you to Submit request form
There you can submit Workflow Background Process Regards,

Shafiq ur Rehman
Sr. Business Analyst
IBM/Lucent TEP6 Project
PO Box 818
Riyadh 11421
Saudi Arabia
Phone: +966 1 4194962 x 337
email:shafiq_rehman@hotmail.com


Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 07:20:04 PDT
From: "siddharta ganguly" pintu_100@hotmail.com
Subject: RE: Approval of purchasing documents

Hi Shay,

In this context, I want to put forward my confusion. In R11 (NT), for Auto-create workflow in Requisition, we are using 'PO create documents' and Ihaven't found 'PO requisition approval' in the LOV. Is there any error out here? How it'll effect the functionong?

Thanks, Jayanta.


Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 10:04:16 PDT
From: "Greg Dietrich" gc_dietrich@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: Approval of purchasing documents

I experienced a problem approving docs in 11.02 and was able to resolved as follows . . . .

The problem was that I hadn't included an 'Account Range' approval rule which is required (but not stated in the documentation). I added the 'Account Range' to three approval groups that I had already created. I then created a new Standard PO and approved it. The process now worked fine.

If you haven't set on 'Account Range' in your approval rules, go ahead and do so b/c it's mandatory. That should clear up your problems. Hope this helps. Please let me know if you have any questions.



Document Controls

Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 15:15:15 +0100
From: Peter Wolyniec pwolyniec@edenconsulting.co.uk
Subject: PO: Document Controls

All,

When defining Document Controls, I am faced with only two types - Quotation & RFQ (no PO, Req etc.)

Obviously missing something simple here - can anyone help?

Rgds,
Pete W.


Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 09:30:59 -0500
From: "Schaefer, Mike" MSchaefer@sandc.com
Subject: RE: Document Controls

Where are you navigating? If I go under Purchasing...Document Types...I found 14 different types of documents.

We are running 10.7
Hope this helps.


Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 15:54:34 +0100
From: Peter Wolyniec pwolyniec@edenconsulting.co.uk
Subject: RE: Document Controls

I find this strange too.

I am navigating : Nav - Setup - Purchasing - Documents (Define Document Controls) in 10.7 CHAR environment.



Web Requisition - closing

Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 13:13:08 -0500
From: "Reynolds, Tomy T" tomy.reynolds@eds.com
Subject: Web Req Closing

Hi ya'll!

Is there a way to close a web requisition when the PO quantity has been revised to be less than the quantity on the requisition?

For example, the req is for a quantity of 4. The PO was submitted with a quantity of 3. The items have been received and invoiced. The PO is closed, but the requisition remains in Open Requisition lines. How can the req be closed?

Thanks for any assistance.


PO closing

Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 12:40:37 -0600
From: "Rosy Virani" Rosy.Virani@CRHA-Health.Ab.Ca
Subject: 11.0.2 Purchasing

We have PO's with line type - service with 2-way match. PO status remains OPEN after PO's have been matched. Receipt Required for these line types are set NO.

According to Oracle we still have to create receipts for these PO's even though Receipt Required for service line type is set to no.

Once we go through process of receiving, it closes the PO.

Is there any other way to close these type of PO's, after it has been matched and eliminating process of receiving?

Thanks Rosy.


Recipts against multiple POs

Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 17:22:04 -800
From: "Eva Mitchell"meva@flashmail.com
Subject: PO: Receipts against Multiple POs

Hello,
Please help me with the following:

1. Is it possible to do Receipt for shipment that are against multiple Purchase Orders.

2. Also, if it is possible to record container number and freight for each container where a container may be for multiple Purchase Orders.

Thanks, Eva Mitchell



Min_order_amount

Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 10:06:12 -0400
From: Ellen Young EYoung@FAMILYDOLLAR.com mailto:EYoung@FAMILYDOLLAR.com
Subject: PO: Min_order_amount

There is a field min_order_amount in the table po_vendors. We can't find the form/field from the front-end. WWS/Oracle development doesn't seem to know either. Any purchasing guru's out there that know?

P.S. I have a bet with an Oracle consultant that I can come up with the answer before he can!!

Ellen Young
Oracle Apps Project Manager
Family Dollar Stores, Inc.
eyoung@familydollar.com mailto:eyoung@familydollar.com


Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 22:44:51 -0400
From: "Downey, Dawn E" dedowney@kpmg.com
Subject: RE: Min_order_amount

Ellen:

I believe this comes from a setting when a Blanket Purchase Order is created...when a Buyer in Purchasing creates a Blanket Order to go to a Supplier, they can enter in a value of the minimum dollar amount which must be purchased when a Release against that Blanket Purchase Order is created....

That would be my first and best guess....I don't recall a field in the Supplier form which specifies a minimum order amount...and I just looked for one and can't find it...

I still go with the Blanket PO field of the minimum order amount in the Purchase Order form.

Let me know how you make out...I'd like to be sure myself...

The only other thing I can think of is in the Item Attributes...in the General Planning region there are field which relate to minimum and maximums, but they should relate to quantity as opposed to amounts.

Hope this helps...and please respond on the final answer...I'll try to do a little more research myself for you..

Regards-
Dawn
Dawn Elise Downey
Senior Consultant - Oracle
KPMG LLP
Boston, MA
Office: 617-988-5629
Pager: 888-692-1071


Date: 15 Jul 99 06:57:49 EDT
From: Dinesh Chandra dchandra@usa.net
Subject: Re: PO: Min_order_amount

Hi Ellen,

This appears to be a forgotten functionality.
Thanks Dinesh Chandra


Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 14:13:02 -0400
From: John Raams jraams@mvest.com
Subject: RE: PO: Min_order_amount

its minimum release amount in Inventory

Minimum Release Amount (Optional) EDIT HELP

Enter the minimum release amount that you want Oracle Purchasing to default on your blanket, contract, and planned purchase orders. This amount is in your functional currency.

Control Options
Use the Control Options region to define control options, such as the receipt close point and minimum release amount.

Its in the Terms and Conditions of the PO header.

That's the answer

John Raams
Executive Vice President & General Manager,
Enterprise Applications Solutions
mVest Technology Solutions
14 Campus Boulevard, Suite 250
Newtown Square, PA 19073-3287
Office Telephone: 610 359 0270 Ext: 304
Cell phone: 610 513 2308
Fax: 610 359 0271
www.mvest.com


Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 15:15:08 -0400
From: Ellen Young EYoung@FAMILYDOLLAR.com
Subject: RE: Min_order_amount

Dawn, thanks for your response but I don't have a final answer. I have gotten a couple of responses that guessed the same as you, and one that said "It looks like this is forgotten functionality." The table that I am trying to find the entry value for is po_vendors, not the purchasing transaction tables...my best guess is that it used to be in an old version (wonder if there are any 9.4.2 gurus out there?), but I can't get a definitive answer. Let me know if you come up with anything and I will do the same.


Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 09:12:40 +0800
From: PHILIP@aleytys.pc.my
To: Ellen Young EYoung@FAMILYDOLLAR.com, oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: RE: Min_order_amount

Well back to work on Monday morning ... (I don't like Mondays (Tell me why?))

I just checked and it is indeed in 9.4 PO in Enter Vendors screen at the Purchasing Options. The column is still in 10.7 but grepping through all the (GUI) FMB and FMX files fails to turn up any reference to this field.

Grepping through the 10.7 CHAR mode INP files, I find in the POXVDINQ form the following comment:

"Took out Min_Order_Amount field as it is no longer required."

POXVDINQ.inp
;; $Header: POXVDINQ.inp 80.27 96/10/26 22:10:49 porting ship $
;; **********************************************************************
;; * (c) Copyright Oracle Corporation 1990 *
;; * All Rights Reserved *
;; **********************************************************************
;; Change History:
;; M Quinlan Jan-93

- Numerous fields added to site level.
;; to display the new site level
;; defaults introduced in rel10.

;; - Resized currency fields to conform
;; to standards.

;; - Took out Min_Order_Amount field as
;; it is no longer required.

;; - Moved Att AR field to payments
;; option

;; - Moved Customer num at site level to
;; a new general zone.

;; - Added Payment terms to the main site
;; level zone.

I would guess that the minimum order quantity is now controlled at the item level.

Philip
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