PO changes after supplier confirmation causes issue with file transfer/upload

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

We are facing a weird situation where in the suppliers are unable to change any prices in the confirmation via FILE TRANSFER(from upload center) because the quantities in the PO were over confirmed prior.

The sequence of actions is as follows:

Example:

PO 1 had line item 10 with qty 10 at the time of creation.

This qty 10 was confirmed by supplier in SNC portal.

After wards buyer changed the PO line item qty from 10 to 5 in ECC and the changes were successfully replicated to SNC.

Supplier then downloaded the PO's which could be changed for confirmation price and the above PO line was in the downloaded file.

Now when supplier tries to change the "price" only for the already confirmed line,system doesn't upload the "file" and displays an "over confirmation" quantity error message when uploading the file from upload center,

My questions:

1.Why was the buyer allowed to change the PO line item quantity when the line was already confirmed by Supplier for the original PO qty?

Is this correct standard behavior?

2. If the behavior mentioned in step 1 is correct,should the suppliers always "check" the "quantity or price" for the confirmation line which is in the downloaded file and then make the necessary changes if required so that the 'new" price/quantity can be uploaded correctly to update the PO in SNC succesfully?

Thanks in advance.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

1.Why was the buyer allowed to change the PO line item quantity when the line was already confirmed by Supplier for the original PO qty?

Buyer or Customer has Upper hand in changing the Quantity, or even Cancel the PO or delete the Line in PO for the Quantity which has not been GR Yet

2. If the behavior mentioned in step 1 is correct,should the suppliers always "check" the "quantity or price" for the confirmation line which is in the downloaded file and then make the necessary changes if required so that the 'new" price/quantity can be uploaded correctly to update the PO in SNC succesfully?

To my understanding supplier will not be allowed to change the Price in SNC in standard system, if some Validation is activated, it would allow.. In your case, since the there is a Quantity Change, why Supplier is changing the Price? Even though he is changing the Price, he should have downloaded the few file from FTR and re-process it again...

Revert if you have any queries.

Regards,

Guru