Currently we are using WACS for Purchase Requisitions and these go through OIC to Fusion SCM to create the Purchase Orders and then these Purchase Order Lines come back to WACS for receiving. We currently use the Stock Item PR Line Business Object and the Misc Resource PR Line Business Object. The Sent (to External System) is a Final status for these. Both allow for a next status of Canceled and the transition role to move them is System. None of the other types of Status are available after Sent to perform for an integrated solution. This causes a few issues.
1. For Stock Items: If the PR line is not processed for various reasons into a PO line in SCM, this still shows up in the Pending Order on the Stock Item Detail which messes up the Re-Order calculations
2. For Stock Items: It appears an order has been placed when in fact SCM could have rejected/returned/canceled the PR Line causing the item to not be actually ordered when it was actually needed and no one was really aware as it looks like there is a pending order in WACS.
3. For Misc Items: For Non-Stock Materials, The PR Line shows Sent to External system making someone think by looking at either the PR directly or the Resource tab on an activity that these are with Procurement still and then causing delays in materials for work or manual communications trying to figure out why we aren't getting the parts or why we don't have a PO yet even though SCM shows statuses of rejected, returned, canceled..
4. For Misc Items: Contracted Services: similar to number 3 but some of these might need bid meetings and timelines start getting pushed.
Requesting the ability of these base business objects to support integration to allow a systematic usage of the available statuses after the SENT status. Examples as follows:
- SCM rejects or returns a PR Line (not fully sure of all SCM statuses) that the WACS PR Lines move back to Created to allow the cycle to restart
- SCM Cancels a PR Line, the WACS PR Line moves to the Canceled Status
- SCM Converts the PR Line into a PO, the WACS PR Line moves to the PO Processed status
- SCM uses a Blanket Purchase Order to handle the PR Line, the WACS PR Line moves to the Blanket Contract Processed status