Understanding Purchase Order Acknowledgement and Change Approvals
In a typical trading environment, suppliers must be able to communicate with buyers about pending purchase orders. Before shipping the items on the purchase order, suppliers usually want to review and perhaps change the purchase order when planning to fulfill the order. The SRM - PO Acknowledgement program (P43S01) enables suppliers to be informed of incoming purchase orders so that they can respond. Using the PO Acknowledgement program, you can view the buyer attachment and add a supplier attachment.
For only those purchase orders that are specific to the supplier, the supplier can:
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Search for purchase orders using multiple types of queries.
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Change purchase order information, such as payment terms and carrier information.
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Acknowledge a purchase order with line splits.
The system splits a purchase order into multiple order lines, which enables you to acknowledge an order by multiple dates, prices, carriers, or payment terms
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Acknowledge purchase orders with or without changes to purchase order information such as price, payment terms, carrier, and delivery date.
The buyer can use the SRM - PO Acknowledgement program to review unacknowledged purchase orders by supplier.