Change Orders - An Introduction


What? A document used to cancel or change an existing Purchase Order. To request a Change Order, you must create a new dPR.
When? To cancel existing Purchase Orders, to increase or decrease the quantity and/or amount or to change account numbers of an existing Purchase Order.

NOTE: To cancel or change a Prepaid Purchase Order (PPO), send an explanatory memo to Purchasing.

How? In summary (details will follow):
  1. Create a new dPR, using type CH, entering the PO number to be changed and the department number on screen 29H.
  2. Enter the vendor name on screen 29V, and
  3. indicate what change should be made on screen 29L.
    NOTE: If you are decreasing or cancelling an order, put an N in the UPO field.
  4. Trailer the dPR with screen 29T.
  5. Then, Purchasing will transfer the dPR to a Change Order.


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[Change Order Worksheet]