An open order consists in a contract and a delivery schedule.
In the contract, you define:
In the delivery program also named Delivery request, you define:
In each contract, you can define several lines related to different purchased products, irrespective of whether they are managed in stock or not.
When the approvals management is activated (APPPOC - Open order signature management parameter), an open order cannot be subject to a delivery request as long as the order remains unsigned.
Management conditions linked to the approval circuit are specified at the Workflow rules level on open orders (see below).
Inter-company purchase open orders also automatically generate sales open orders without the submission of the automated inter-company flow operation.
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The presentation of the entry screen depends on the setup of the selected transaction.
If only one transaction has been set up, no choice will be suggested. Otherwise, a window opens and display the list of transactions that you are authorized to use.
A contract record contains a header information section and three sections used to generate the general conditions and the various lines.
Besides, depending on the context, additional possibilities are offered in the Action panel.
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In the header, enter the general information of the contract such as the site, supplier code, date etc.
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Fields
The following fields are present on this tab :
| Code of the site issuing the order (request for quote, purchase request, order, subcontract order etc.). |
| Each order has its own order number. It is used to identify it. When you copy a purchase order and its order date is different from the current date, a messages suggests that you recalculate the prices and discounts according to the new order date. |
| This is the last revision number entered for the open order. When a signed, printed order is modified and the PURREV setup activates the revision management, the user will be asked whether they wish the modification to generate a revision. |
| The supplier code entered must meet particular conditions: be active and not of the prospect type. From this field, you can:
When the supplier entered is of the type "Miscellaneous", a window automatically opens for the entry of the address. When the entered supplier is of the 'Normal' type, you can view and potentially modify the address from the Actions icon, since the supplier code has been entered. Following the entry of the supplier, a message is displayed when the supplier is declared "on-hold". This can be a blocking message or a simple warning according to the value given to the dispute code in the supplier record. In order duplication, changing suppliers is not authorized. Case of inter-site reorder contracts: You can create inter-site contracts to manage reorders between sites: When you create a purchase contract and enter a supplier of the inter-site type, the contract is considered as an inter-site contract. This means that when creating the purchase contract, the associated sales contract is automatically created. This contract is identical to the purchase contract. The customer for this sales contract will be the Customer associated with the requesting site that has issued the purchase contract. The master contract is the purchase contract. A delivery call-off entered on the purchase contract automatically creates the delivery request in the sales contract. Any modification carried out on a delivery call-off is automatically duplicated on the delivery request of the sales contract (modification of the quantity, delivery call-off balance, deletion of the delivery call-off). At the level of the delivery request of the sales contract, no modification is possible, everything is managed by the purchase contract. There is a case where the purchase delivery call-off can be modified by the sales delivery request. If a delivery request is partially delivered, the delivery request of the sales contract is split into two delivery requests. The first part applies to the delivered amount, the second to the remainder. In fact, the purchase delivery call-off will also be split into two delivery call-offs corresponding to the sales delivery requests. Inter-company specificities: Within the framework of an inter-site or inter-company open order, the supplier needs to be declared as being of the inter-site type and the site associated with this supplier must be a sales site (it defines the sales site in the mirror sales contract). The purchase site at the origin of the open order must be able to identify an inter-site customer that will serve to define the reciprocal customer sales open order. When the supplier is identified as being an inter-site supplier, the inter-site check box in the open order is automatically selected. If the site associated with the supplier belongs to another company than the purchase site of the order, the inter-company check box is also selected. A warning message can be displayed in this context, if the customer linked to the purchase site is blocked. The generated sales order will display a blocked status. The inter-site orders are not themselves concerned with this operation. The WIP order book is not managed for the internal flows. |
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| This information cannot be modified and specifies whether the open order has the type inter-company. When the order concerns an inter-company supplier (site in a different company), an invoice can be generated. |
| This information cannot be modified and specifies whether the open order has the type inter-site. When the order concerns an inter-site supplier (site in the same company) it cannot be invoiced. |
| Field used to stipulate the reference of the contract at the supplier's (not controlled in a table) or to mention a free internal reference. |
| It is initialized by default to the current date |
| This is the sales site associated with the inter-site supplier. |
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In this section, enter the sales conditions included in the contract header such as the payment conditions, the invoicing site, the shipment method, the carrier etc.
The majority of this information is initialized by default and can be modified.
You must enter at least the following fields:
Other fields are very important for the creation of a contract, but according to the transaction used, they are not available for entry when they are declared as Hidden in the transaction. In this case, it is the default initialization value that is automatically taken into account.
Various indicators related to the signature, printing, closing, receipt and invoicing are also displayed. You can use them to get a quick view of the open order status.
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Fields
The following fields are present on this tab :
BPs
| This field is used to enter the invoicing supplier code, initialized by default to the supplier code entered in the header. |
| This field used to indicate an invoicing address code for the invoicing supplier. |
| This field is used to enter the paid supplier code, initialized by default to the supplier code entered in the header. The supplier can be another supplier chosen from the supplier table. |
| This field used to indicate a payment address code for the paid supplier. By default, this is the address code defined in the order supplier record for the paid supplier. It is possible to choose another address code for the paid supplier. |
Project
| Use this field to enter a project code.
The management rules of this field are based on the PJTSNGDOC - One project by document- parameter (TC chapter, MIS group).
Inter-company specificities: for an inter-site open order, the project code is automatically sent to the generated sales order line. However, it is not sent for an inter-company open order. |
Payment
| Start date for the contract validity. |
| End date for the contract validity. |
| This information is initialized to the supplier entered in the order header. It is used to identify the supplier's payment method as well as the payment scheduling. |
| The discount code is used to identify a series of discount and charge rates to be applied to a payment according to a number of early or late days with respect to the due date. Specificities linked to inter-companies: for an intercompany invoice generated from a sales invoices, the payment condition is intialized from the one of the sales invoice. |
Currency
| Code of the currency in which the invoice prices and amounts are expressed. This field is initialized by default with the currency code of the BP record. This field is only modifiable in creation or copy mode. |
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Organization
| When the BUYFLT - Filter by buyer parameter (ACH chapter, AUZ group) is set to Yes, the Buyer code is set to the user code and its entry is mandatory.
From this field, the Actions icon gives you access to the supplier's detailed address and can be used to select an alternative address for the supplier if necessary. This is the address to which the order document will be sent. |
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| This is the storage site code from which the customer is generally delivered. This site, which is controlled in the site table, must be identified as a warehouse. This information can only be accessed if the order is of the inter-company or inter-site type. It is used to indicated which shipping site will be used by the sales company that the inter-site/inter-company supplier identified. It will then serve to initialize the shipment site for each line of the purchase order. It is mandatory in this context. The shipment site is initialized by order of priority, as follows:
If after this search, the site is still not identified, you must then manually enter it. A control is applied to check if the entered site belongs to the same company as the supplier site and if the site is a storing site. The Actions icon is used to view all the sites available for selection. Specificities linked to automatically-generated purchase orders: if the shipment site is still not identified after the execution of the previous steps, the shipment site is initialized using the first warehouse site found, in alphabetical order, in the list of storage sites for the company identified by the supplier. When generating the corresponding sales order, the shipping site of the sales order header is equal to the site defined here. |
Transport
| This mandatory information is initialized by default to the supplier entered in the order header. It describes how the goods are transported. This information is used namely in the Exchange of goods declaration (Intrastat). From this field, you can directly enter a delivery method whose existence is controlled in the delivery method table or you can use the Actions icon to:
Inter-company specificities In the case of an inter-company or inter-site order, the delivery method of the generated sales order is initialized to the delivery method entered in the purchase order if the delivery method is not entered in the ship-to customer. The ship-to customer for the sales order is determined by the delivery address identifying the receipt site for the purchase order. |
| This is the carrier in charge of transporting the goods. It is initialized to the supplier's carrier entered in the order header. A selection window is used to choose another carrier. |
| This information is mandatory and is initialized to the tax rule associated with the supplier entered in the order header. It is used to define the tax rule to be applied to the order and is used to determine the tax codes to be used for the product lines. This information is controlled by the miscellaneous table "BP tax rules". |
Grid Analytical
| This grid is used to enter or view the analytical allocations, based on the setup of the entry transaction of the contracts. |
| This field repeats the title of the dimension type. |
| The analytical dimensions are initialized in compliance with the Default dimensions setup (POH dimension code). These dimension codes can be modified manually if authorized by the transaction. When an analytical dimension type is used for the Project management tracking, any modification of the project code leads to the dimension code of this dimension type being reset based on the Default dimensions setup. If the project code is used onto the lines, the dimension code of impacted lines is also reset. |
Status
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| This information is used to identify if the open order has been printed. It cannot be printed until it is totally signed, or if there is no signature management or if the signature is automatic. |
| This information is not used in the open orders. An open order is due or not (validity date). |
| This information is used to identify the situation of the open order from the perspective of the receipt of goods. The possible values are: 'No', 'Partially'. |
| This information is used to identify the situation of the open order from the perspective of the receipt of goods. The possible values are: 'No', 'Partially'. |
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In this section, enter the ordered product(s).
The minimum information to enter is:
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The following fields are present on this tab :
Grid Product lines
Product
| The entry of a product is mandatory, but it is possible to choose between entering the internal reference of the product in this field and entering the supplier reference in the next field. In these two cases, the existence of this reference is controlled in the Product record. The entered product:
In addition, you cannot create several lines for the same product and the same receiving site. If this is the case, a blocking error message will be returned: "Product-site contract line already exists. Addition impossible". Inter-company specificities: On an inter-site or inter-company open order, you can only enter products of the 'Received / Deliverable' type. From the Product field, there are many possibilities. You can directly enter a product reference or use the Actions icon to:
The entry of the product is used to load the Description field, which can be modified. After entering the product, the following messages may display:
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| Main description of the product coming from the product record and that can be modified during entry. |
| This is the description translated into the supplier's language. This description will be transmitted with any modifications on the receipt to stock or on the supplier invoice. When an order comes from a purchase request or a request for quote, the translated description will be inherited from the original line. |
| This field indicates if the product is of type: Standardor Service. A product of the Standardtype is a 'physical' product, whether managed in stock or not. A product of the Servicetype is a product not managed in stock and of the Servicecategory. |
| The major version number can only be accessed if the tracking of major versions is activated at product setup level (in the Management section of the Product function, the value of the Stock version field is set to 'Major'). If the versions preloading is activated at the Product-supplier level, or otherwise, at the Product/Order level, the last active major version is preloaded automatically. Otherwise, the last major version with the 'Stopped' status will be preloaded. It can still be modified. |
| The minor version number can only be accessed if the tracking of the major and minor versions is activated at product setup level (in the Management section of the Product function, the Stock version field is set to 'Major and minor'). If the version preloading is activated at Product-supplier level, or at least, at Product-Order level, the last minor version is preloaded automatically. It can still be modified. |
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| This is the default address code for the receiving site chosen. This address will be printed on the order document sent to the supplier. |
| Use this field to specify the consumption place for the carrier or to define an address complement. Examples: Dock xx or Hall yy. The place of consumption is written on the order document.
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| This is the storage site code from which the customer is generally delivered. This site, which is controlled in the site table, must be identified as a warehouse. This information can only be accessed if the order is of the inter-company or inter-site type. It is used to indicated which shipping site will be used by the sales company that the inter-site/inter-company supplier identified. It will then serve to initialize the shipment site for each line of the purchase order. It is mandatory in this context. The shipment site is initialized by order of priority, as follows:
If after this search, the site is still not identified, you must then manually enter it. A control is applied to check if the entered site belongs to the same company as the supplier site and if the site is a storing site. The Actions icon is used to view all the sites available for selection. Specificities linked to automatically-generated purchase orders: if the shipment site is still not identified after the execution of the previous steps, the shipment site is initialized using the first warehouse site found, in alphabetical order, in the list of storage sites for the company identified by the supplier. When generating the corresponding sales order, the shipping site of the sales order header is equal to the site defined here. |
Management
| It is the validity start date for the product line. This date cannot be prior to the contract start date. |
| It is the validity end date of the product line. This date cannot be later than the end date of the contract. |
| This is the purchase unit defined for the product-supplier combination, or for products that do not exist in the product-supplier record.
This purchase unit cannot be modified. It is used as the default value when entering an order, subcontract order or receipt. The supplier purchase unit is suggested by default when the product-supplier record exists. The purchase units are accessible depending on the type of category assigned.
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| This quantity cannot be less than the minimum quantity of the product - supplier record. |
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| This is the period, expressed in number of days, weeks or months, during which the provisional delivery requests can be completed. |
| Unit of time in which the planning horizon will be expressed. |
| Use this field to enter a project code.
The management rules of this field are based on the PJTSNGDOC - One project by document- parameter (TC chapter, MIS group).
Inter-company specificities: for an inter-site open order, the project code is automatically sent to the generated sales order line. However, it is not sent for an inter-company open order. |
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Grid Accounts
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| These fields indicate the purchase accounting accounts. The charts of accounts that can be accessed depend on the account core model associated to the company of the movement. If these fields are not entered the account will be automatically determined by the accounting code for the product as a function of the setups for the PORD automatic journal. |
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| The presence of this information depends on the transaction setup. The different product types are: 'Purchasing', 'Fixed assets' and 'Services'. The purchase type is initialized on the basis of the tax posting type associated with the GL account previously entered. The purchase type will be transmitted to the receipt or to the purchase invoice control. |
Grid Price listing terms
| This is the validity start date for the price list line. |
| This field contains the ex-tax unitary gross price. This field is loaded via a price list search or it is entered manually. |
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The analytical dimensions are initialized in compliance with the Default dimensions setup (POC dimension code). |
| This code is used to define whether this product must be controlled on receipt into stock.
When the quality control code associated with the product or with the product-supplier combination has the Non-changeable control value, the field that corresponds to the order line cannot be accessed in entry mode, irrespective of the transactions setup. This information will then be used at the receipt and cross-checked with the management rule defined for the product category and associated with the movement type Supplier receipt to determine the product status and to generate, if necessary, an analysis request. |
| This field is subject to the Exchange of goods declaration (Intrastat). This conversion factor is used in the Intrastat declaration for the exchange of goods. It is used in supplier invoices and applied to the fiscal value of the product line to obtain the statistical value. |
| The country code for the origin of the goods, initialized to the country code associated with the order supplier. |
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Click this action to access the Document traceability inquiry function. This function is used to view and browse through the hierarchy of journals at the origin or coming from the document.
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Use this section to view the contract total, as well as the different elements of the order footer.
You can enter several products on the condition that the orders with several lines are authorized for the supplier concerned.
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Fields
The following fields are present on this tab :
Grid Invoicing elements
| Number of the invoicing element identifying the associated amount (Charges, freight, packing, discount, etc.). The list of the invoicing elements is drawn up by cumulating the lists of the invoicing supplier and their price list structure. Other elements can be added to this list. Only those elements added to the initial list can be deleted |
| This is the short title for the invoicing element. |
| These is the information related to the invoicing footer. This information comes directly from the invoicing elements present in the supplier record concerned by the order for those that are declared as present in the order footer |
| The system specifies whether the invoicing element is a percentage or an amount. |
These fields indicate the purchase accounting accounts for the invoicing elements. The charts of accounts that can be accessed depend on the account core model associated to the company of the movement. |
| The allocation processing key entered in this field is used to load the associated dimension types. It is constituted of one to ten alphanumerical characters. |
These are the analytical dimensions of the invoicing element. The analytical dimensions are initialized based on the Default dimensions setup (POCV dimension code), linked to the management of invoicing elements. These dimension codes can be modified manually if the transaction allows it. In order to modify the dimension codes of the various dimension types, click the Actions icon. When an analytical dimension type is used for Project management tracking, any modification of the project code on the document header will lead to reinitializing the dimension code of this dimension type, except if a distribution key has been entered. |
Amount
| This is the tax excl. amount below which supplier orders can be subject to a control (blocking, warning or no control). The level of control for this amount is defined by the parameter POHMINAMT - Order min amount control (ACH chapter, AUZ group). |
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Acknowledgement notes
| Date of acknowledgement of receipt of the order by the supplier. |
| Once the supplier has received the order, enter the acknowledgement ID provided by the supplier. Inter-company specificities: For inter-company or inter-site contracts, the Order acknowledgement ID and date cannot be accessed and are initialized, when the sales contract has been generated, with the date and the number of the sales order. You can use the Actions icon available on the Ack. ID field to jump to the generated sales contract, provided you are granted the proper authorizations. |
| You can add two lines of comments on the acknowledgment of receipt. |
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By default, the following reports are associated with this function :
BONCDEOUV : Open orders
BONCDEOUV2 : Open orders
PORDERCOE : Open orders listing
PORDERCOL : Contract list detail
This can be changed using a different setup.
This setup is performed at the Customization level of the current object, by associating a report code or a print code to it.
It is possible to further specify this setup:
Click this action to add an additional product line to the contract. |
Click this action to delete a product line when no delivery request exists. |
Click this action to enter a header text in the contract at any time during the creation or to modify it during the modification of the contract.
Click this action to enter a footer text to the contract at any time during the creation or to modify it during the modification of the contract.
Click this action to enter a line text to the contract at any time during the creation or to modify it during the modification of the contract.
Click this action to access the detailed address for the order supplier.
The address is initialized with the supplier default address. It is used to send the purchase order to the supplier.
Click this action to access the detailed address for the order supplier.
The address is initialized with the supplier default address. It is used to send the purchase order to the supplier.
Fields
The following fields are included in this window :
Transport
| The Incoterm codes, set by the International Chamber of Commerce, seek to standardize the terms the most used in the international commerce by defining the respective responsibilities of the seller and the buyer agreed upon on establishement of the sales contract by a unique word similarly understood throughout the world. The Incoterm code, controlled in Incoterm table is used in the INTRASTAT file (Exchange of goods declaration). It can also be used to define the price lists. |
| It is the city associated to some types of incoterm. For example: FOB Le Havre. A selection window is used to choose a city listed in the system. It is however possible to enter a city that is not listed. |
| The forwarding agent field is used to identify a BP appointed by the sender or the recipient to ensure transport continuity when the goods need to undergo several successive transports. The forwarding agent is controlled in the Carriers table. The forwarding agent and their address are used in the Intrastat file to declare the flows of goods between the forwarding agent’s address and the sender’s address, or between the forwarding agent’s address and the recipient’s address. For example, this situation applies to the shipment of goods abroad, since customs formalities are performed by a forwarding agent in another EU country. An Intrastat declaration needs to be submitted for the transfer of goods to this other EU country. |
| This is the address code of the forwarding agent. It is initialized with the default address of the BP corresponding to the forwarding agent. This address is used to determine whether submitting an Intrastat document is necessary for this flow. |
Intrastat information
| This is the VAT identification number of the BP. This European VAT number must be entered on all the invoices destined to or coming from the European Union. This number starts with two letters identifying the business partner country followed by a number depending on the country. In France the number is comprised of FR, then 2 numbers identifying the tax office of the place where the company conducts its activities, followed by the Company tax ID no.(SIREN) of the company. This information must necessarily be entered if the Company Registration number is set up as being mandatory for the country of the company. |
| A transport location must be specified in the EU exchange declaration. It is combined with the Incoterm code in order to determine the delivery conditions referring to the sales contract terms that specify the respective obligations of the buyer and seller.
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| The transport method by which the goods are presumed to leave their national territory on shipment (export) or to have arrived in on receipt (import). This information is used in the Customs document file. |
Physical flow
| This is the economic information on the performed transaction. The nature of the transaction is used in the Intrastat. |
| The EU or statistical rules are used to specify the nature of the EU transaction from a tax or statistical point of view. The EU rule is used in the Intrastat. |
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Click this action to view the different receipts and invoices recorded for this open order.
This action is only available in display or modification mode on open orders.
Click this action to view the order entry transaction used.
Click this action to access the Document traceability inquiry function. This function is used to view and browse through the hierarchy of journals at the origin or coming from the document.
Landed costs (cost structure, landed cost coefficient, fixed cost per unit) are not managed in open order or delivery orders. These costs are managed at the level of Receipts.
In addition to the generic error messages, the following messages can appear during the entry :
This message is displayed when the assignment of the sequence numbers has not been completed for the Purchasing module. To solve this problem:
This message appears during the entry of the order site, when the signature management is active and no setup exists for the signature rule for the legal company to which the order site is attached.
This message is displayed when entering the invoicing or receipt site and when the site code entered does not belong to the same legal company as the order site. To correct this problem, select a site from the suggested list.
This message is displayed when the invoicing site code entered is not declared as financial site in the sites table. To correct this problem, use the selection window and select a site code in the list displayed.
This message is displayed during the entry of the supplier code if the latter is declared as Prospect in the supplier record.
This message is displayed during the entry of the supplier code when this latter is declared as Not active in the supplier record.
This message appears when the supplier entered has been declared to be "on-hold" in the supplier record. This message can be a simple warning message or a blocking massage depending on the value given to the dispute code in the supplier record.
This message is displayed during the entry of the product reference when the latter is declared to be non-active (in development, not renewed...) in the Product record.
This message appears during the entry of the product reference when the latter does not belong to a category of purchased product.
This message is displayed when the ordered product has been declared as Blocked in the product record for the supplier entered. This message can be a simple warning message or a blocking message depending on the value given to the Blocking code in the product record (Suppliers section).
This message appears when the ordered product is not referenced for the entered supplier. This message can be a simple warning message or a blocking message according to the value given to the ITMBPS - Supplier referencing parameter (ACH chapter, REF group).
This message is displayed when the ordered product is not referenced by the entered supplier at the Product-site level. This message can be a simple warning message or a blocking message according to the value given to the ITMBPSFCY - Supplier-site referencing parameter (ACH chapter, REF group).
This message is displayed when the filter by buyer is active (BUYFLT - Filter by buyer parameter) and the product ordered is not managed by the buyer specified in the order header.
This message is displayed when the product entered is managed in stock and has not been declared for the receiving site (No corresponding Product-site record).
This message is displayed when an attempt is made to add a line related to a product-site combination that has already been entered in the contract.
This message is displayed when the product you want to order is prohibited in direct ordering. This blocking message depends on the value given to the Mandatory PR check box in the Purchase section of the product record.
This message is displayed when the quantity you enter is less than the minimum quantity requested by the supplier, as stated in the Product record.
This message appears in creation mode when the reading of the specified sequence number counter is invalid and the system has been unable to get a sequence number.
This message is displayed when you attempt to create or insert a new line while the supplier has been declared as not accepting an order containing more than one line (information entered on the supplier record).
This message is displayed when you attempt to insert a line or to duplicate a line while the maximum number of lines for a contract, defined by the appropriate activity code, has been reached.
This message is displayed during contract validation when no price line or price list code has been entered. To correct this problem, enter a price line or price list code or cancel the entry using the appropriate key.
This message appears in several cases: