Purchase request referring to a deleted purchase order

Question

Hi,
I'm working at a release upgrade from 4.6 to ECC 6.0 and I'm facing the following issue.
I created a purchase order referring to a purchase request.
Although I've deleted the purchase order, its number is still displayed in the purchase request.
Instead in the previous release 4.6c, after having deleted the purchase order, its number disappeared.
Do you know how to solve this different behaviour?
Thanks!

Answer 1

Ciao Elisa,
If PO item was delete, system will update the PO qty in PR statistics with ZERO.  And appear information to advise this item has been opened. But 'Processing stat' will still keep 'B' - Ordered.
For your reference, please also kindly review the note 493315
FAQ: Purchase requisition (general)  -> question 1
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1.  You delete a purchase order item with reference to the purchase requisition. Why is the last purchase order in the purchase  requisition not reset and why is processing status "B" not changed?
Answer:
See Note 65839.
"This is actually not an error. This is because checks for whether a purchase requisition has already been completed are always made on the basis of the quantity ordered. The processing status and the last purchase order are not used in this case.
Thus the processing status and the last purchase order are not reset, since it very often occurs that purchase requisitions are completed via several purchase orders - that is, they are partially ordered several times. In this case, it would even be completely incorrect to reset the status when deleting the last purchase order item, since the previous purchase order can still exist.
However, since the program no longer has this information, namely, which purchase order is the last active one, the processing status is left on "B" and the purchase order number is not corrected, because this could only cause "even more incorrect" statistics."
Regards,
Mauro