Fixed vendor in non-catalog PO

Hi,
We are facing some strange issue. We have a field "Vendor" in Basic data and Source of Supply tab in shopping cart. This would have value only in case of catalog item or there is contract or any other source of supply assigned to that item. If there is no source of supply then this field will not even displayed in these tabs.
But in our case, if we enter a preferred vendor in source of supply tab, then during the course of approval somehow the "fixed vendor" gets udpated. Because of that, the PO gets automatically created (ext classic) without the knowledge of the buyer.
In shopping cart, we could see both the partner functions 39 and 19. This is happening very rarely (like one in 1000 shopping carts) but the impact is very big as the POs are being sent to vendor before buyer reviewing that.
Has anyone came across this issue? Can you plz help to fix this? we are in SRM 4.0
Thanks,
Arun

Thanks Muthu and Jay.
We tried two changes through this BBP_DOC_CHANGE_BADI.
Change 1 - Deleting the line from lt_partner table where partner_fct = 0000019 and then move lt_partner to et_partner, which is the output parameter of the badi.
In this change, we could able to delete that specific line from lt_partner when partner_fct = 19 and the output parameter et_partner also does not have that line. We checked this at the end of the doc-change badi. But once the shopping cart is ordered, the deleted line is still there. Are we missing something ?
Change 2 - If partner_fct = 0000019 , then make it as partner_fct = 0000039 and then move lt_partner to et_partner
In this case also, it is changing the partner_fct to 39 but the shopping cart is not getting ordered. It is giving the message "PArtner function may not be changed" with message type A.
Can you please advise, if we are missing something here?
Thanks
Arun

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