SAP PO "Delivery completed" indicator

Inventory Management, you can define that the “delivery completed” indicator

Although the “delivery completed” indicator is not set, a purchase order item is still

considered closed if the full quantity has been delivered. In this case, the “delivery

completed” indicator is not required.

The "delivery completed" indicator specifies whether an purchase order item is considered

closed. This means that no more goods receipts are expected for this item. If the "delivery

completed" indicator is set, the open purchase order quantity becomes zero, even if the full

quantity has not been delivered. It is still possible to post goods receipts of remaining quantities,

but these no longer change the open purchase order quantity.

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is set automatically in the order if:

a) the total quantity was delivered

b) the underdelivery or overdelivery lies within the tolerences

If an underdelivery lies outside the tolerances, you can set this indicator manually for the order

item during entry of the goods receipt to indicate that delivery for the order item is to be

considered complete.

If you enter a return delivery or reversal for an item whose "delivery completed" indicator has

already been set, so that the delivered quantity falls below the underdelivery tolerance limit, the

“delivery completed” indicator is automatically reset. In this case, the system issues a warning

message informing you that the “delivery completed” indicator has been reset. If you are not

expecting another delivery, you can reset the “delivery completed” indicator manually. After you

do this, the system will no longer change the “delivery completed” indicator automatically.

The “delivery completed” indicator has the following effects:

a)The purchase order item is considered closed, even though the total quantity may not

have been delivered.

b)although a further delivery is not expected, it is still possible.

c)At the time of the next goods receipt, the system suggests the item as unselected in the

item selection list.

d)The purchase order item can be deleted, even if the total quantity was not delivered..