PO Order No field not available when Billing Document is created

[Former Member]

All

Can anyone explain why the purchase order number field is not available for input once a billing document is created? I have been asked whether this can be made available as often it is fustrating when an invoice has been created and the user may forget (or the customer requests afterwards) that they enter the purchase order number on the invoice. They have to cancel the billing document and add it in the sales order, then re-create the billing document.

Is there a way of making this field for input at billing document? Thanks in advance.

[Former Member]

Hi,

To address your problem, it is advisable to make the field as an incomplete item in the Sales Order before allowing the Sales Order to be saved.

Check the warning field in incomplete procedure for Sales Header and assign it to your document type. That is at least something you could do to "remind" the user and serve as a warning to them to input during order creation.

In standard, changing the PO number field in Billing creation is not possible - this is a referenced field from Order document.

Hope this helps.

Thanks.

Edited by: Kok Wai Phang on Oct 15, 2010 4:45 AM

[Former Member]

Thank you for your reply. I had thought of this, but this was not sufficient. Unfortunateley sometimes a PO number is only given after the customer has received the invoice, users don't think to get the PO number first. They are instructed to create the invoice straight away PO number or not.

But thanks for your response anyway!