Purchase Order Stuck at 230

[kisan]

Hi List,
We have this bizzare issue wherein our POs get stuck at 230 (Approval) status even when the amount on the PO is below the approval limit set for a particular Business unit.
Interestingly enough this happens only for one particular user and is random in nature.
Whats strange about such POs is that no F4209 records are written, the field F4311.PDARTG is <Blank> (Approval Route).
A temporary workaround for this issue is that we enquire the PO and make a insignificant change in any of the Order lines and save it. The PO is then Auto approved to 300 (Verify PO), this also creates F4209 records.
Has anyone faced such issue?
Not sure if we need to check anything additional as the user profile which has this random error is pretty similar to other PO users that we have.
Any suggestions are most Welcome!

Thanks in Advance!

Regards
Kisan
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E1 8.12 TR 8.98.1.2
AS400 ISeries

 

[svl]

Is it possibly a data issue? Are these orders manually entered or entered from some custom interface? We had a similar issue with orders that were imported via a custom interface and a null value was in a field. After changing the order, it may possibly be defaulting the DD value for a field? Just a thought.

 

[kisan]

Hello SVL,
NO we don't import our PO's through an Interface. All the POs are manually entered.

Regards
Kisan