Purchase Order Statuses

Open: You can open at the header, line, and shipment levels.
Open for Receiving: You can reopen for receiving at the header,
line, and shipment level.
Open for Invoicing: You can reopen for invoicing at the header,
line,and shipment level.
Close: Purchasing automatically closes shipments for receiving
and invoicing based on controls that you specify in the Purchasing
Options window. Once all shipments for a given line are closed,
Purchasing automatically closes the line. When all lines for a given
header are closed, Purchasing automatically closes the document.
Close for Receiving: The Receipt Close Tolerance lets you specify
a quantity percentage within which Purchasing closes a partially
received shipment. For example, if your Receipt Close Tolerance
is 5% and you receive 96% of an expected shipment, Purchasing
automatically closes this shipment for receiving.The Receipt Close
Point lets you choose which receiving action (Received, Accepted,
or Delivered) you want to use as the point when Purchasing closes
a shipment for receiving based on the Receipt Close Tolerance.
For example, if you set a Receipt Close Tolerance of 5% and
choose Delivered as your Receipt Close Point, Purchasing closes
shipments for receiving when you have delivered 95% or more
of the ordered quantity.
Close for Invoicing: The Invoice Close Tolerance lets you specify
a similar quantity percentage within which Purchasing automatically
closes partially invoiced shipments for invoicing.
Unfreeze: You can unfreeze only at the header and release levels.
Delete: Before documents are approved, you can delete them or
their components from the document entry window. If you use
online requisitions, Purchasing returns all requisitions associated
with your delete action to the requisition pool. You can reassign
these unfilled requisitions to other purchase orders or releases
using the AutoCreate Documents window.
Cancel: Purchasing lets you terminate an existing commitment
to buy from a supplier by canceling document headers, lines,
shipments, or releases. When you cancel a purchase order entity,
you are unable to receive or pay for cancelled items and services,
however, you can pay for all previously received orders.
You also cannot modify a cancelled entity or its components.
Final Close: Prevent modifications to or actions against
completed documents, lines, and shipments by final closing them.
Final-closed documents are not accessible in the corresponding
entry forms, and you cannot perform the following actions against
final-closed entities: Receive Transfer, Inspect, Deliver, Correct
receipt quantities, Invoice, Return to supplier, or Return to
receiving.You can approve documents that include final-closed
entities, but you cannot approve documents that are final closed
at the header level. You can print final-closed documents.
Finally, you can Purge documents that were final closed at the
header level before the Last Activity Date that you specify when
you submit Purge.
Freeze: Freeze your purchase orders and releases to prevent
changes or additions while maintaining the ability to receive and
match invoices against received shipments. You cannot access
frozen documents in the entry forms.
Hold: Place documents on hold to un-approve them while
preventing printing, receiving, invoicing, and future approval
until you remove the hold.
Firm: When you firm an order, Master Scheduling/MRP uses
the firm date to create a time fence within which it will not
suggest new planned purchase orders, cancellations, or
reschedule–in actions. It continues to suggest reschedule–out
actions for orders within the time fence. If several shipments
with different promised or need–by dates reference the same
item, Master Scheduling/MRP sets the time fence at the latest
of all scheduled dates.You can firm orders at the document
header or shipment level. If you firm at the header level,
Purchasing applies this control to every shipment on the document.