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Workflows for purchase

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Hi everyone!

 

We currently have a workflow in Business Central that requires approval for both purchase orders and purchase invoices. However, for purchase orders, we would like to adjust the process.

If a purchase order has already been sent for approval and subsequently needs to be modified, we want to avoid triggering a new approval, provided that the total amount of the order remains unchanged.

Example:

  • Original purchase order: line one: 100 units of item Screw = 1,000 SEK, delivery in May

  • Revised purchase order:

    • line one: 50 units of item Screw = 500 SEK, delivery in May

    • add line two: 50 units of item Screw = 500 SEK, delivery in Jun  

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In this case, the total amount remains unchanged (1,000 SEK), and therefore we would like to prevent the modification from triggering a new approval workflow.

Sometimes we need to split the first line with an item because our vendor can't send all of the items that we requested. And we want to have controll of our inventory and need to know when the items arrives.

 

Or does someone have a better solution on how we could work with this? 

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    843 on at
    Standard filter on the workflow till be Status "Open" which means the approval will trigger for any open orders.
     
    You would need to have the order open to change it, I don't thin there is a way to negate this using standard, if you remove the status filter, it won't trigger for any orders
     
    Kind Regards
     
    Andrew Thomas FCCA MCP
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