PO marking to Production order (subcontracting)

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We have Work flow activated. Created a Production order and Estimated it. PO was created. Tried to Start but got an error - Changes to the document are only allowed in state Draft, because change management is activated.

I followed the following steps from an earlier post.

All subcontract services need to have a default vendor, a dummy vendor just for the purpose of creating an auto PO.

Exclude that vendor from change management.

When the production order is estimated, it fires up a PO for that vendor with status approved. Delete that PO.

Raise another PO for the subcontract service item, with the correct vendor and prices etc. and go through the normal approval process.

When the PO is approved, you can now go and mark that PO line against the production line.

(the key for having the production order visible in the marking is to have it estimated).

Start the production order, receive the PO, it posts to WIP, report it as finished, then end it.

Picks up the correct costs.

The only challenge now is to automate deleting the first PO

My issue is I still get the error when I 'Start' the production order. Looking for suggestions on how to get around this.

Thanks.

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RE: PO marking to Production order (subcontracting)

Client wants all PO's to go through the approval process. Reference button is not marked and when click Start I get the error. Will need to find a alternate approval process as you said. Thanks.
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RE: PO marking to Production order (subcontracting)

Purchase order approval workflow is incompatible with production order subcontract purchase orders and your work-around doesn't look like a good solution - better in my mind simply to exclude subcontract vendors from change management, and work with the business to figure out an alternative control process. But, if you must ....

On the Production order Start form, there's a References button. Is this ticked? Do you still get the error when it's not ticked? What's the status of the order when you 'Start'?