Cancelling a purchase order line which came from a purchase requisition should, one would think, be a simple task. However, prior to Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 R2, this was not necessarily the case.
This recently came back to mind when a client, who has recently implemented Purchase Order Processing with Workflow approvals on the requisitions (PO Entry window has been customised to lock a lot of the fields) raised an issue with me about not being able to cancel a line on the PO. After writing and demoing the functionality of Dynamics GP 2016 R2 a few times recently, it took a few minutes to identify a workaround for them as the client was running Dynamics GP 2015 R2 (14.00.1016).
The problem, is that you cannot cancel the link to the requisition in the same way you would a Sales commitment. If you try to cancel by entering a Qty Canceled, you get this error:
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The purchase order commitment can't be deleted; an attached sales line item is in use or is in history. Line items that weren't in use or in history are no longer committed to a purchase order.
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