Dealing with Discontinued Products on EDI Confirmations
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Having sent an electronic purchase order to your supplier, you will receive an order acknowledgment from them, which is displayed on Power-Gx as the Shopping Results screen.  This topic outlines what to do if the supplier order confirmation warns you that you have ordered discontinued products. 

1.   The supplier will confirm 0 and back order 0 since the product has been discontinued.  Booking in this purchase order will indicate that the line is complete even though you have not received any.
2.   A Cancelled Purchase Order (CPO) transaction is generated for the discontinued product and it will reappear on the shopping list since you still need to purchase it. 
3.   If there is an alternative supplier, you should change supplier on the shopping list. 
4.   You should amend Product Details, removing the supplier from the choice of suppliers for this product.  
5.   If there are no alternative suppliers, you will need to mark the product as discontinued or make it dead in Product Details. 
6.   If the item is required for a sales order, you will need to amend the sales order, replacing the product with an alternative item if possible or deleting the line if the customer does not want a replacement product. 
7.   If the item was for stock, delete it from the shopping list and replace with an alternative product.