This activity is used to receive the part information into an ad-hoc purchase request i.e.,Part information in an order confirmation or a delivery note sent by EDI. If the system has failed to retrieve the data in the message into the Ad-hoc Purchase Request, the message has the status Stopped or Rejected. Then the message needs to be corrected or resent. A description of the error is displayed in the Error Message field.
Note: If you are using automatic approval, the Approval of Incoming Ad-hoc Purchase Request should be set to Automatically on Site/Sales and Procurement/Procurement/Message Defaults page or on Supplier/Purchase/Message Defaults page and an Approval User should be given. Otherwise it has to be manually approved in the Incoming Ad-hoc Purchase Request page.
A saved Ad-hoc Purchase Request
An Incoming Ad-hoc Purchase Request message must have been sent by the supplier.
Ad-hoc purchase request lines are retrieved into the existing Ad-hoc Purchase Request using the information in the message.