Tracking Supplier parts status

Business Applications Procurement
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One of the requirements recently surfaced around knowing if a parts order placed with a supplier is backordered. One can think of this as the second level on the supply chain. This is not the ‘backordered’ state in the Sales order (which caused the creation of the PO), but the status of the PO line item from the suppliers perspective.

I’ve done an initial scan of fields in the ProcurementOrderDetail table but did not see something that would match this requirement.

Thoughts? Feedback? Thanks, John

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Unfortunately, if a supplier informs you that an item is on backorder, there is currently no functionality in the system to reflect that status. However, if the Portal is used, the supplier can respond to the purchase order and notify the Buyer of the item’s unavailability—though this can only be communicated through a note.

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Thanks for the reply. We will extend the platform to support this.