when I unapproved the Supplier button doesn’t open
Identifies the supplier, and if applicable, the supplier purchase point from whom you are ordering the parts, supplies, or subcontract operations. If you do not know the supplier ID, click Supplier to access Supplier Search and browse for the correct ID. The supplier name and address are displayed.
Customer and Supplier Owned Purchase Orders
If entering a customer-owned purchase order, you must first create a supplier code in Supplier Maintenance for the customer supplying the inventory you are receiving.
The same supplier code must also be assigned in the Type field in Warehouse Bin Maintenance to the warehouse bin in which the inventory will be received.
When the purchase order is received in Receipt Entry, the Epicor application validates that the assigned supplier code matches the supplier code assigned to the bin to which the inventory is being received.
Similar processing also applies when receiving supplier-owned purchase orders.
Changing Suppliers on Existing Purchase Orders
The following processing takes place if you attempt to change the assigned supplier identifier for an existing purchase order:
If you create a purchase order with an specific supplier and then link one of its purchase release lines to a sales order release in the Buy To Order section of the Order Entry > Release > Details sheet, the Supplier field is disabled and you cannot change the supplier identifier in this field.
If one of the purchase order lines contains a part that has approved suppliers, you are only allowed to change the supplier to a valid approved supplier for all of the ordered parts. If the specified supplier is not approved, an error message displays.
If this is a contract purchase order, and you change the supplier, the Epicor application verifies, for all associated purchase order lines, that active part schedules have been defined for the supplier in Part Schedule Maintenance. This allows you to switch to different suppliers for which active part schedules have been defined in Part Schedule Maintenance.
A This Contract Purchase Order contains Parts which do not have an active part schedule for the selected Supplier." error displays if active part schedules have not been defined for all of the contract lines.
Hi - I’m not sure it’s possible to change the supplier on a PO. You could try to duplicate it (Actions → Duplicate Order) and see if you can change the supplier since it would be a new order. Then manually close this one.
The solution of copying out a new PO is fine, but I still want to know why the copied PO now can change the supplier.
Why can’t my old PO change supplier?
I removed Receipt
I am having the same initial issue to where I cannot edit my initial PO that has been saved and has no lines or release attached to it, what is the solution as we do not want to duplicate the PO?
We’re in the same boat and never found a proper solution.
If the payment terms on both the old and new suppliers were the same, it would potentially let us, but if they were different it wouldn’t, regardless of whether a receipt had been made or not.
the challenge with changing suppliers on a PO after lines have been created is that there is a potential that the new supplier is not an approved supplier for one or more of the parts listed. Also, price list considerations would need to be considered. I have never attempted to change the supplier, but my advice would be to “start over” with a new PO (copy it?).
For the reasons @timshuwy mentioned its probably not a good idea, but I’ve occasionally been able to change things via updatable BAQ that were not changeable via the UI.
Seems like it would be better if it let you as long as the new supplier was also approved.
In general the error messages and disabled paths in Epicor are very far from intuitive, and even in the rare cases they tell you what the hold up is they don’t tell you where to go to fix it, or even let you fix it right in the message itself. For example adjusting material on a job when material is allocated or reserved. First time I got that it took me forever to find the correct window to un-reserve and un-allocate. Should just ask you right then and there if you want to un-reserve.
I guess it depends entirely on how your individual business is using the module - ours for example is extremely simplistic in its requirements, and all parts are approved for all suppliers, so this logic would never have come into play.
But it’s good to know the system has this ability.
