Autocreate creates Purchase order with same line number as in Requisition

When auto creating Purchase order with requisition lines grouping as ‘Requisition’, the Purchase order is getting created with the same line numbering as that of requisition

Scenario:

While creating requisition user did some mistakes, hence deleted some lines & the requisition line number sequence is like 1, 3 & 6.

The purchase order is auto created with grouping method as ‘Requisition’.

Purchase order gets created with the same sequence of line numbers as in requisition. This might give a wrong impression to the Vendor that some lines are missing in the Purchase order.

Cause:

This behavior is due to value set for profile option ‘PO: Use Requisition Line Numbers on Autocreated Purchase Order Lines’

The value of this profile option will determine whether to generate sequential numbers or copy the requisition line numbers.

If the value of the profile option is ‘Yes’ and if the grouping method selected on the Autocreate window is ‘Requisition’,  autocreate will copy the Requisition line number to the autocreated Purchase order.

 If the value of the profile option is ‘No’, the autocreate process will update the purchase order lines using the algorithm max (line_number) + 1, then the line numbers in PO will be 1,2 & 3.

Below we will reproduce the same issue, after setting the profile option ‘PO: Use Requisition Line Numbers on Autocreated Purchase Order Lines’ to ‘No’ and will see its impact.

Requisition created with improper sequence of line numbers

The purchase order is auto created with grouping method as ‘Requisition’.

Since we have set the value of the profile option as ‘No’, System didn’t copy the line numbers from requisition and has generated line numbers in a sequential way 1, 2 & 3.

Note:

If the purchase order is auto created with grouping method as ‘Default’, system will not copy the line numbers from requisition to purchase order (irrespective of the value of profile option ‘PO: Use Requisition Line Numbers on Autocreated Purchase Order Lines’)

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