Individual PO Lines on Hold. Possible?

Is there a way to put individual lines on hold for a PO vs putting the entire PO on hold? We have PO’s that have more than 1 job on the PO but they are part of the same overall project.

For instance, we have job 1234-a and we have job 1234-b. Both are from the same client and both are for products from the same vendor. These items are custom (made to order) products. But 1 of the products has a small change and purchasing has to wait on Engineering. And the other product is fine and the vendor can ship it to us while we are waiting.

With these issues/parameters, is it possible to place a single PO line on hold instead of the entire PO?

You can close a release on a PO under actions. We are just straight purchase to stock so not sure of job related PO items though.

Sounds like a customization.
Or maybe a PO Line/Rel could manually be closed and then reopened… how to keep track of them?

Thank you for your response. But that would lose ability for others to see accurate current status. Thank you for the help though.

Thank you for your response. But that would lose ability for others to see accurate current status.

We normal track each PO through the overall project.

Thank you for the help though.

I did find something under epic webs site that kinda mentions individual PO Lines on hold:
“Open PO Items On Hold (MPO-R-15) - The Open PO Items On Hold report lists purchase orders placed on hold using the Hold Code field in PO Header Options Entry (MPO-04) and PO Line Item Options Entry (MPO-08). This gives the ability to follow up on and release purchase order items that should be released prior to actual receipt. Only authorized purchase orders (status I) that are on hold appear on this report. Purchase order items that are completed, completed short, canceled or not on hold do not appear in this report.”

Has anyone used PO Line Item Options Entry (MPO-08)?

Wonder if there was a version listed on what you read?

  • where MPO-08 reminds me of the old naming conventions in DataFlo rather than E10.

Would creating a new Hold type for PO Detail work for you?

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This looks interesting, i will check this out.

Thank you.

Sigh. You are correct. As soon as i downloaded the guide book, I immediately read “DataFlo 5.11”

Thank you for pointing that out.