Purchasing, order activity rules, status codes, P40204 F40203

[david_mallory]

Hello, OW purchasing wizards,

I am seeing pairs of status codes on purchase orders in F4311 and F43199,
created with P4310 and P43060, then received with P4312 (all normal stuff),
that I cannot find in the order activity rules I see in screen P40204 order
activity rules which reads F40203. I do not know what
conditions/actions/screens are creating these status code pairs.

I see stuff like 220-290, 999-125, 212-215, 215-999, 220-blank, 400-blank,
999-blank, 215-210, none of which I can see anywhere in the table for the OP
order type and N or S line types we are using. We have not modified any
business functions. We did add some codes to the F40203 rules table during
setup, which is normal setup stuff.

Does anybody have a clue about this ? Where do I look ? What sorts of
actions create things like this ?

Dave Mallory Denver Water 7.332 SP 15.1 Oracle 8.1722 NT 4.0

 

[Larry_Jones]

David,

some programs (PO Entry/P4310 and PO Print/R43500 among them) allow an override Next Status code to be specified in the Processing Options. Suggest you check your versions and/or lock down ability of your users to change processing option values.

Regards,

Larry Jones
[email protected]
OneWorld XE, SP 15.1
HPUX 11, Oracle SE 8.1.6
Mfg, Distribution, Financials

 

[jefferick]

Hi Dave, Here are a couple of suggestions for your PO status code issues.

1. check the processing options for a)overrides next status' and
b)protection of status codes(allows or disallows users from manually
changing status codes)

2. check the document type to make sure that they are OP and not OB.
status' like 212-215 are typically used for blanket orders and not OP's.

3. the 999's are usually system generated and, depending on the
associated code, may not be created by user setup but by the system.

4. Ensure that they are using the same activity rule file(F40203) and
that you aren't encountering a situation where the PO was entered and the
status codes were setup one way, then later changed so that now they are
invalid.

Hope this helps
----- Original Message -----
From: "david_mallory" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 11:13 AM
Subject: Purchasing, order activity rules, status codes, P40204 F40203


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400-blank,
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[ismith]

I would also recommend checking the processing options. The 212-215 sounds like it might be related to Approval Processing. Check the "Approvals" tab in the Proc. Opt. of the P4310.

For P43060, I would look at the version of P4310 called under the Versions tab. Make sure that the P.O. Entry version called has its Processing Options set the way you want the P.O. created with respect to "Override Next Status" etc.

The 999 would come about on a cancelled line. Some of the other status' you mention I haven't seen before, and the status codes of blank don't bode well.

Goodluck.

Regards,

Ian
isp/Web e-mail: [email protected]



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From: david_mallory <[email protected]>
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Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 09:12:59 -0800 (PST)




Current Client Configuration:
OneWorld B73.3.1
Windows 2000, SQL 7
accessed via Remote Desktop (Terminal Server)

 

[shootera]

If you have the purchasing log turned on check and see what program is
creating the status codes.