The system holds the orders and denies further processing due to the order being marked as held by the handler. A purchase order can be:
- manually put on hold
- automatically put on hold. See About attesting purchase orders
- manually released
When a purchase order is manually held, an order held reason code has to be defined on the order header. All order held reason codes are set up in Work with order held reason codes. In this table there are three codes concerning purchase orders that are pre-loaded at the time of installation. These three codes are used when the order is automatically held. For orders that are manually held, a user defined reason code has to exist in this table.
The only thing you can do when an order has been put on hold is maintain the order. The system blocks all other routines that change the status of an order, for example:
- Print purchase order document
- Print reception note
- Confirm reception note
Enquiries
- Purchase order enquiry