Top Tip 2 – How to mark a CiAnywhere PO as “complete”

Top Tips: Mark a Purchase Order as “Complete”

This is a really simple top tip but very useful. This is the scenario. You raise a PO for 10 items and the supplier delivers and invoices 8 of the items. Your Accounts Payable team post the invoice and pay for it in the next payment run. Three weeks later you get a call from the supplier informing you that the remaining 2 items cannot be delivered as the product has been discontinued. The order has not been completed and never will be completed. It is an order in limbo, let’s call it an “OIL”.

To close the order and mark it as complete, just navigate to the PO, click on the “Additional Actions” button and select “Complete”.

This will save you a lot of pain and avoid a build up of “OILs” in your Purchasing system which will distort your commitments figures and avoids the pain of having to run scripts to clear them out, you just tidy as you go!