Purchase Order Status
Classification of the status of a purchase order or a purchase order item.
SAP Supply Network Collaboration (SAP SNC)
sets the status of a purchase order or a purchase order item automatically, depending on the function you or SAP SNC performed beforehand on the purchase order or on the purchase order item.
Header Status
The header status displays which processes have been performed on the purchase order. The header status is an "aggregated" status that SAP SNC determines from the status of the purchase order items. For more information, see the Item Status section.
Distribution Status
The distribution status is a message-related status on header level. It provides information about which processes have been performed on or are possible for the XML messages for a purchase order.
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The supplier has published the purchase order in SAP SNC. The supplier can no longer change the purchase order. |
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A purchase order acquires this status in the following cases:
The supplier can process the purchase order. For more information, see Editing Confirmation Data in SAP SNC Manually. |
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The supplier did not create confirmations manually in SAP SNC, but, instead, sent them from his or her back-end system to SAP SNC using a |
Item Status
The item status shows which processes have been performed on the purchase order item.
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After the customer sent the purchase order from his or her back-end system to SAP SNC, the purchase item did not undergo any further processing steps (such as a goods receipt or a cancellation). |
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The supplier delivered part of the ordered quantity. For more information, see Update of GR Data in the Purchase Order. |
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The supplier delivered the ordered quantity. The system can consider the underdelivery tolerance: If the open quantity is less than the underdelivery tolerance, the item receives the For more information, see Update of GR Data in the Purchase Order. |
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The supplier rejected the purchase order item. |
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The customer deleted the item in his or her SAP back-end system. |
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The customer has closed the purchase order item in the SAP SNC system using the |
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The customer locked the item in his or her back-end system. |
* These statuses allow the purchase order item to be changed on the SAP SNC Web user interface in the standard system (provided that the other change-relevant statuses of the purchase order also allow change). The supplier, therefore, can create or change confirmation schedule lines for the purchase order item.
Confirmation Status
The confirmation status indicates whether confirmations already exist for an item. The confirmation status is relevant if confirmations are mandatory or optional for an item according to confirmation control.
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The supplier has not yet created any confirmations for the item. |
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So far, the supplier has only confirmed a partial quantity for the item. |
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The supplier confirmed the full item quantity. The system can consider the underdelivery tolerance as follows: If the difference between the confirmed quantity and the requested quantity is less than the underdelivery tolerance, the item receives the status |
For more information, see Confirmation Control and Update of the Confirmation Status of a PO Item.
Change Status
The change status indicates whether an item is new or changed. For more information, see Processing Changed Purchase Order Items.
Status in the Approval Process
If you use the approval process in purchase order collaboration, the following additional statuses are relevant:
For more information, see Approval Status and Change Distribution Status.