Purchase Order Change Order Management

Creates formal PO Change Orders to capture supplier-requested price, quantity, or date revisions.

Core Domain: Supply Chain Management

Supported Digital Worker: Supplier Order Manager (SOM)

Overview

Creates Purchase Order Change Orders (POCO) in IFS Cloud and updates existing Purchase Order Change Order lines based on supplier-requested changes. The skill supports changes to quantity, unit price, and wanted delivery date, individually or together, and flags qualifying updates for Human-in-the-Loop review.

Business Challenge

Suppliers frequently request changes to prices, quantities, and delivery dates after POs are issued. Organizations must maintain auditability and revision history.

How this skill fits into the workflow for:

Supplier Order Manager (SOM)

1

Receives supplier change request

2

Extracts requested revisions

3

Locates purchase order

4

Validates PO eligibility

5

Creates a formal PO change order

6

Applies revisions

7

Routes for approval

Decision Logic / HITL

• Escalate when:

  • large price increases

  • major quantity reductions

  • significant delivery delays

  • multiple conflicting revisions

  • repeated supplier modifications

Business Value

• Complete audit trail

• Formal supplier change management

• Improved supplier accountability

• Better compliance and governance

• Enhanced supplier performance monitoring

Key Capabilities

• Purchase Order retrieval

• Change Order creation

• Price and quantity updates

• Wanted delivery date updates

• Combined line-level updates

• Approval and HITL routing

• Updated line summary and review reason reporting

Required IFS Cloud Components & Permission Sets

Component	API Name
PURCH	PurchaseOrderHandling.svc
PURCH	PurchaseOrderChangeOrderHandling.svc