Approve purchase order
Approves a purchase order so it becomes eligible for sending, receipt, or reconciliation steps defined by its lifecycle.
Business object
Approve purchase order
Business lifecycle
Updated state
Vue d’ensemble
Approves a purchase order so it becomes eligible for sending, receipt, or reconciliation steps defined by its lifecycle.
Exemple
After budget control, approve the purchase order before sending it to the supplier.
Parameters 1
purchase_order
Purchase order concerned by the transition.
Outputs 1
purchase_order
Purchase order after applying the transition.
Behavior
The approval transition is applied to the purchase order and its updated state is returned.
Key point The node applies a canonical business operation: it does not bypass the object's lifecycle and fails when the requested transition is incompatible with the current state.
Limits and responsibilities
- Approval does not mean that the supplier accepted or delivered the order.
- Any required human authorizations must have been obtained before this node.