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Cancel Shipment problem

Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 07:59:51 -0400
From: "Brown, Sharon" SBrown@VisualNetworks.com
Subject: Purchasing Cancel Shipment problem

Hey PO Gurus,

Yesterday our NT system went down unexpectedly (no surprise there)! Anyway, one of my buyers was in the middle of a cancel remaining on a shipment operation. The cancel took for the shipment. I can look in the po_line_locations table and all looks OK. However, the outstanding and unreceived distribution for the shipment does not show that it is cancelled. We can not re-approve the PO because of course the distributions do not match the shipments.

In the past (many times), I have just updated the quantity_cancelled field and the gl_cancelled_date to reflect the cancel operations. This seemed to work at my old job (10.7 character). However, it has not worked here (10.7 NCA GUI). The distributions still show up even when they have been reset as cancelled. Am I missing something else here??? We do have the additional burden of inventory steps. Is there something I need to do there??? Any suggestions???? Maybe I need to reset the shipment and recancel???

HELP!!! .... It is quarter end and my users are frantic.

Thanks,
Sharon
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Sharon C. Brown
Application Administrator
Visual Networks, Inc.
(301) 296-2676
SBrown@VisualNetworks.com


Missing PO Total cost

Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 08:15:35 -0400
From: "Schmidt, Bob" bschmidt@AAFINTL.com
Cc: "Cundiff, Wanda" WCUNDIFF@AAFINTL.com,
Subject: PUR: Missing PO Total cost

Morning all !!

We are experiencing a problem where POs are entered and the item extended price is not adding to the total PO cost as displayed on the screen. When you print the PO it looks OK as the total (I presume) is calculated by the PO report. When items of this type are received, the transaction register and the AP screen indicate $0.00 for the unit price. It also appears that the approval process is dictated by this calculated PO total within the PO form and thus allows persons to approve POs that are well below their approval limit. Has anyone else seen this? Do you know of a fix? 10.7 SC / Windows NT 4.0 / Win 95 clients.

Thanks
Bob Schmidt
bschmidt@aafintl.com
EDS
502.637.0446
502.637.0520 (F)


Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 17:20:22 -0500
From: Mike Dennis mdennis@mdp.com
Subject: Re: PUR: Missing PO Total cost

We've experienced this on some of our purchase orders as well. We seemed to pin this down on autocreated purchase orders when the buyer removed and/or changed the need by and promised dates. This would change the extended price on the shipment screen to zero. To fix the problem on a specific purchase order, we did the following: change the quantity or price, save the change, change the quantity or price back, save the change, and then re-approve.

Mike Dennis
Meredith Corporation
mdennis@mdp.com


Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 07:59:02 -0400
From: "Schmidt, Bob" bschmidt@AAFINTL.com
Subject: RE: PUR: Missing PO Total cost

We have tried similar approaches. If we change an item and save, the PO total on the screen is correct. However, when we approve it, the total goes back to zero (or some number less that what it should be). I thought it might have something to do with the distributions but I haven't gotten any deeper with it.

Thanks
Bob Schmidt
bschmidt@aafintl.com
EDS
502.637.0446
502.637.0520 (F)


Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 09:04:50 -0400
From: "Schmidt, Bob" bschmidt@AAFINTL.com
Subject: RE: PUR: Missing PO Total cost

I also received this from Oracle Support:

"I have located a one-off client patch for bug 800041 which allowed a blank unit price on a PO line and the purchase order to be approved with a line where there was no price (no value). The header Total amount of the Purchase order was not updated after the change of this wrong price. (This is fixed in 16N). A one-off patch 806880 is available for 16L. I have put patch 806880 on the ftp site at:"

Thanks
Bob Schmidt
bschmidt@aafintl.com
EDS
502.637.0446
502.637.0520 (F)



Receipt Traveller very slow

From: Larry L. Leser [SMTP:llesser@iquest.net]
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 1999 7:20 AM
Subject: Receipt Traveller

Has anyone had any trouble running the "Receipt Traveller" in 10.7 character.

We have the system set to run a receipt traveller when items are received, but it runs for over 12 hours. Oracle support has been trying to figure this one out for almost 4 weeks now, with no success.

Help is appreciated.


Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 09:24:35 -0500
From: "Vicha, Curt" vichac@Jostens.com
Subject: RE: Receipt Traveller

"Receipt Traveller" has one of the largest view in all of Apps (RCV_DISTRIBUTIONS_PRINT), If your SHARED_POOL size in SGA is not very large it will cause it to be parsed many times. Have seen it take 2-4 minutes to be parsed on a large HP with lots of memory, but many users that bumps it out of SHARED_POOL (was using 4 cursors of 2-5mg each).



Requisition Import and Dynamic Insertion

Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 09:41:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: Andy Schindler aschindl@yahoo.com
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: PO: Requistion Import and Dynamic Insertion

All, in 10.7 Dynamic Insertion is not included/enabled with the PO Requisition Import.

Does anyone know if it included in R11?

Andy Schindler
NRC, Inc


Requisition Hold for pricing

Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 16:37:55 -0400
From: "Bill Keenan" billek@ccai.net
To: "Oracle Forum" OraApps-L@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: Requisition Hold for pricing

Hi,

Can anyone tell me if it is standard functionality if a requester puts a requisition on hold, that a notification is sent directly to the buyer alerting the buyer to price the requisitions item. It seems that this would be something that the workflow manager could accomplish, correct? If so, would you consider this a customization to the requisition approval workflow process?

Thank you in advance for your help!
Annette


Requisition - not accepting Combo

Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 05:51:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: kartik iyer mukul061292@yahoo.com
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: Purchase requisition

While creating requisitions the following error occurs:

Choose an existing combination.
The procedure which was carried out for creating the requisition was as follows:
1. The requisition menu was clicked and form comes up
2.Then the Supplier and site was entered.
3.A description was given for the requisition
4.The item was selected and the quantity were entered
5.The need by date was given
6.The organisation was given
7.The location was given
8.The subinventory was given.
When the distribution button was pressed the error occured Even when tried to save, the same error occured. Can anyone suggest what is meant by choose an existing combination? It is urgent. The history also gives the same message ie "Choose an existing combination."

Thanks
Regards,
Kartik
Consultant, Relicon, Dubai


Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 08:01:28 -0500
From: "Schaefer, Mike" MSchaefer@sandc.com
To: "'oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca'" oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: RE: Purchase requisition

Check the Category that was selected.


Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 20:16:23 +0700
From: "Nagamohan U." umohan@irs.co.id
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: RE: Purchase requisition

Hi Kartik

When you select the item the category also gets defaulted in the Requisition lines.

This error occurs when the category that is defaulting is not there in the default category set attached to the Purchasing in Inventory.

Just go to the Category Set in Inventory (\setup\items\category sets) and call the default category set attached to Purchasing. Add the Category that is defaulting in the requisition for that particular item to the Category set.

This should solve your problem.

Regards/Nagamohan


Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 09:50:52 PDT
From: "Prasanna Kumar Jena" pk_jena@hotmail.com
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: Re: Purchase requisition

Dear Karthik,
I do not remember the exact cause. But it relates to either Item Flexfield in Purchasing or Item Categories flexfield in Inventory.
Prasanna Jena


Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 14:27:24 -0500
From: Carolyn Walker cwalker@mdp.com
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca, mukul061292@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Purchase requisition

It sounds like you selected an item from the item catalog. When this item was entered in the catalog, was an expense account assigned to that item. If so, check the expense account and make sure it is enabled and that it is an existing combination.


Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 14:54:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jay Patel-ERP Consultant jpmrp@yahoo.com
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: Re: Purchase requisition

Karthik,

Also, check to see if dynamic insertion is "on" in G/L, if it is not, you are not allowing dynamic building of account numbers, therefore when flexbuilder builds account numbers for requisitions (there are 3 or 4), based on your rules it may be building an account number that does not exist and therefore possibly gives you the error you indicated.

Hope this helps...
Jay


Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 18:52:20 PDT
From: "siddharta ganguly" pintu_100@hotmail.com
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: Re: Purchase requisition

Hi Karthik,

I faced the same problem earlier and solved it with the help of one of this forum member. Please check whether the category of the item, which u r choosing in the Requisition, is present in the Category Set (Setup - Items - Categories - Category set) window. It seems weird; but it really doesn't matter whether u have ticked the 'Enforce list of valid categories' checkbox on or not.

Hope this will help you.
Jayanta K. Bhattacharyya.


Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 01:25:24 +0300
From: Nasir Valiya Valiya@NGHA.MED.SA
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: RE: ORAAPPS-L digest 3646

Please check the Category you entered in the requisition. This error message "Choose an existing combination." normally pops up when the Item category combination on the requisition is an inactive, not defined, non existing one.

Nasir V



Patchset N error on applying

Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 18:31:48 +0700
From: "Nagamohan U." umohan@irs.co.id
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Cc: "Srivastava Pradeep (Path)" pradeep@irs.co.id,
Subject: PO: Patch Set N Patch#864603

Hi all

We tried to apply the patch set N in PO to fix a problem in requisition template. But at the time of applying the Patch#864603 we encountered the following error.

Start time for statement below is: Wed Sep 08 1999 12:35:06

begin ad_inst.do_apps_ddl(:a, :b); end;

Schema is "PO", SQL statement is:
GRANT ALL ON PO.PO_REQ_DIST_INTERFACE_ALL TO APPS WITH GRANT OPTION

ORACLE Error in aicdad():

ORA-06550: line 1, column 10:
PLS-00302: component 'APPS_DDL' must be declared
ORA-06550: line 1, column 7:
PL/SQL: Statement ignored
ORA-06512: at "SYSTEM.AD_INST", line 108
ORA-06512: at line 1

AutoPatch error:
Unable to compare or correct tables or indexes or keys because of the error above

Error in aiccep(): aicce2() failed

Due to this error that adpatch failed.

Has anybody encountered this problem. Please share your experiences.

Regards/Nagamohan


Pre-approved PO not available for acceptance

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 14:59:51 -0500
From: "Aronovici, Sarah" Aronovis@augsburgfortress.org
To: "'Oracle Apps Forum'" OraApps-L@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: PO: Pre-Approved Status

We have a few POs in our system that seem to be stuck in a 'Pre-Approved' status. The buyer was able to approve the POs and then forward them (buyer was temporary employee, and is no longer set up as a buyer) to the next level in the Hierarchy.

The POs now show a status of 'Pre-Approved'. The Action History shows that they should be in the notification queue of the Materials Mgmt director (next step in hierarchy, from the buyer), but they are not in his notification queue. He has tried to enter Acceptances for these POs, but this does not change the status of the POs. These POs cannot be opened or canceled either.

There were other POs created by this buyer during the same time period (August) with the same Category/Subcategory, same line types, that went to the materials mgmt director's queue for Acceptance, he was able to enter acceptances and the POs went to Approved status with no problems.

Has anyone come across anything similar to this before?

Thank you in advance,

Sarah Aronovici
Oracle Systems Analyst
Augsburg Fortress Publishers
612.330.3363


Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 22:53:25 -0500
From: "HANCOCK, David" dhancock@shl.com
To: "'oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca'" oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: RE: PO: Pre-Approved Status

Sarah,

Looks like you have encumbrance accounting turned on. In this case, the buyer chose "Approve" Document, instead of "Approve and Reserve" Document. To correct problem, forward document to someone that has authority to Approve and Reserve, and have them "Reserve" only. The document with then be reserved and approved. Done. Next time this happens, if you want to teach the buyer a lesson, I would forward all of these POs back to him/her, with instructions to now Reserve the PO. He/she will get the message that POs must be approved and reserved for internal efficiency reasons.

Dave Hancock
888-319-1178


Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 11:19:09 +0200
From: Mike Bennet MikeB@langeberg.co.za
To: "'oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca'" oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: RE: Pre-Approved Status

Advise your users that there is no need to forward a PO once approved. This action of approving and forwarding results in the PO being "pre-approved".

You could use the option to change the inbox and forward these POs to the intended approver.

Regards
Mike


Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 06:56:57 -0500
From: "Aronovici, Sarah" Aronovis@augsburgfortress.org
To: "'HANCOCK, David'" dhancock@shl.com,
Subject: RE: PO: Pre-Approved Status

David,

Thanks for the information, but we do not have encumbrance accounting turned on.

Thanks,
Sarah Aronovici


Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 07:30:57 -0500
From: "Aronovici, Sarah" Aronovis@augsburgfortress.org
To: "'Mike Bennet'" MikeB@langeberg.co.za,
Subject: RE: Pre-Approved Status

Mike,

Thanks for the reply. One of the problems that we are having with these documents is that they are not available in anyone's approval queue. Therefore I can't forward them to another approver.

Thanks,
Sarah Aronovici


Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 20:11:26 +0700
From: "Nagamohan U." umohan@irs.co.id
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: RE: PO: Pre-Approved Status

Hi

A quick check. Just run the following scripts. Do they return any records?

select EMPLOYEE_ID, ACTION_LOOKUP_CODE from po_notifications_all
where OBJECT_ID=&your_po_header_id

select NOTIFICATION_ID, APPLICATION_ID, EMPLOYEE_ID, STATUS, DOC_NUMBER
from fnd_notifications
where OBJECT_ID=&Your_po_header_id

select ACTION_CODE, employee_id from po_action_history
where OBJECT_ID=&Your_po_header_id

He has tried to enter Acceptances for these POs, but this does not change the status of the POs

I am not sure Accepting the POs changes the status to Approved. More over from where is he trying to accept the POs? From Purchase Order Summary Screen or some where else?

These POs cannot be opened or canceled either

The POs cannot be opened because the owner of the PO i.e., the Buyer is no longer exists as buyer. Your document control set up is controlling this.

You have two options two open them.

1. Enabling that temporary employee as buyer again and attach this employee your user name and open the POs and control them.
2. Change the Document control set up(security level and access level) to access these POs.

Regards/Nagamohan


Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 08:37:41 -0500
From: "Aronovici, Sarah" Aronovis@augsburgfortress.org
To: "'Oracle Apps Forum'" OraApps-L@cpa.qc.ca,
Subject: RE: PO: Pre-Approved Status

I ran the scripts that you suggested. The first two returned no records. The last script returned the action history for each document, showing the last entry for each document without an action code.

I enabled the buyer, associated that employee with my user, and then tried to open these POs. It did not allow me to open the POs. I think it is not allowing me to open the PO header because of the status. But I can't get the status changed.

Thank you,
Sarah Aronovici


Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 09:07:25 -0500
From: "Aronovici, Sarah" Aronovis@augsburgfortress.org
To: "'HANCOCK, David'" dhancock@shl.com,
Subject: RE: PO: Pre-Approved Status

I have checked in GL and PO. Following are the results:
GL: Reserve for Encumbrance: Null
Enable Budgetary Control: Null
Encumbrance Types: Enabled (seeded types only)

PO: Use Requisition Encumbrance: Null
Requisition Encumbrance Type: Null
Reserve at Requisition
Completion: Null
Use PO Encumbrance: Null
PO Encumbrance Type: Null
Invoice Encumbrance Type: Null

Unless there is something else that I'm not aware of, it still looks to me like we do not have encumbrance accounting turned on.

Thank you,
Sarah Aronovici


Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 16:55:41 +0200
From: "German Palomar Santa Maria" palomarg@grupocp.es
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: PO: Preapproved status

Try working in character mode

German


Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 14:06:53 -0500
From: "Aronovici, Sarah" Aronovis@augsburgfortress.org
To: "'HANCOCK, David'" dhancock@shl.com,
Subject: RE: PO: Pre-Approved Status

'Reserve' is not an available option in the Approval form.

There were not updates to the Financial Options during the time period these POs were created (POs before and after went through approval process without any problems).

Thanks,
Sarah Aronovici
Oracle Systems Analyst
Augsburg Fortress Publishers
612.330.3363



Document Approval Manager - Scheduling

Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 09:32:33 GMT
From: "GopalaKrishna Surapaneni" srisri47@hotmail.com
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: PO: Scheduling PO

Hi All,

Is it required to schedule the PO Document Approval Manager and Shipping Manager to be activated every 5 or 10 minutes and if so, how can this be done and what fequency is advisable.

Thanks in Advance.
Gopal