The purchase requisition status is displayed on the purchase requisition header in the form. The following table describes the various statuses that purchase requisitions can have until they are approved.

Status

Description

The purchase requisition was created, but not yet submitted to Workflow, or the purchase requisition was recalled from Workflow.

The purchase requisition was submitted to Workflow. At this point, no pending approval or task has been created.

The purchase requisition was submitted, resubmitted, or delegated, but the completion task has not been carried out.

A request for quote was created based on the purchase requisition, but no request for quote reply has been received.

The completion task for the purchase requisition has been completed in Workflow.

The purchase requisition was submitted, resubmitted, or delegated, and is awaiting approval.

The purchase requisition was rejected.

A change was requested for the purchase requisition, and was sent to a user.

The purchase requisition was approved in Workflow.

A purchase requisition reaches the status of , when the approval is performed in Workflow.

Approved statuses

When the purchase requisition is approved and purchase order lines are created (referenced) from purchase requisition lines, the purchase requisitions has different types of statuses, depending on the status of the purchase order lines. The status of the purchase requisition is the highest status from the purchase requisition lines.

The following table describes the various statuses that purchase requisitions can have when they are approved. The table lists the statuses from lowest to highest.

Status

Description

All purchase requisition lines have references to purchase order lines with a status of or to deleted purchase order lines.

Note Note

The status is the lowest possible status.

At least one purchase requisition line has a reference to a purchase order line with a status of , and purchase order lines have not yet been created for one or more purchase requisitions.

At least one purchase requisition line has a reference to a purchase order line with a status of . No other purchase order line that is referenced from the purchase requisition has a status higher than . One or more purchase requisition lines have not yet resulted in purchase order lines, or the purchase order lines were canceled or deleted.

At least one purchase requisition line has a reference to a purchase order line with a status of . All other lines have a status of or were deleted. No other purchase order line that is referenced from the purchase requisition has a status higher than .

At least one purchase requisition line has a reference to a purchase order with a status of . No other purchase order line that is referenced from the purchase requisition has a status higher than .

At least one purchase requisition line has a reference to a purchase order line with a status of . All other lines have a status of . No other purchase order line that is referenced from the purchase requisition has a status higher than .

At least one purchase requisition line has a reference to a purchase order line with a status of .

At least one purchase requisition line has a reference to a purchase order line with a status of . All other lines have a status of .

Example

In this example, a purchase requisition has resulted in a purchase order with three purchase order lines. The table shows all combinations of purchase order line statuses and the corresponding purchase requisition statuses.

Purchase order line status - Line 1

Purchase order line status - Line 2

Purchase order line status - Line 3

Purchase requisition status

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