How to activate "Issue Purchase Orders" option ?

Question

Hello everybody,
How can I activate the "Issue Purchase Orders" option ?  At this moment, every time a purchaser creates a PO in Sourcing Cockpit, the PO is created and sent it immediately to the vendor.
Obviously, I want to change that.. =)
Somebody knows how can I change this behavior and activate the "issue purchase order" option?
Thank you very much for your help !
Diego

Answer 1

Hello Diego,
this is exactly what I already told you in my first reply.
With this customizing option, a PO "trigger" (term used in Post Processing Framework --> term used in output logic !!) is created but not processed immediatly.
You can find this "waiting" output in transaction "Issue purchase order" and execute it, or let a scheduled report do it.
When you save the PO in ECS, FM BBP_PROCDOC_SAVE will call this output creation, then level one update tasks are called (physical update of DB) by the COMMIT. Then level 2 update tasks are called. The PO transfer to the backend is one of those last calls.
So there is no link between PO output and BE transfer.
Except in case of DUMP, I don't see any reason to block the PO transfer because of PO edition.
If your PO is not transfered in BE, this is not because of the PO output.
There is another reason.
Check PO status : is it "In transfer to exec" or "transfer to exec failed" ?
Rgds
Christophe