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# 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)**

{% stepper %}
{% step %}
Receives supplier change request
{% endstep %}

{% step %}
Extracts requested revisions
{% endstep %}

{% step %}
Locates purchase order
{% endstep %}

{% step %}
Validates PO eligibility
{% endstep %}

{% step %}
Creates a formal PO change order
{% endstep %}

{% step %}
Applies revisions
{% endstep %}

{% step %}
Routes for approval
{% endstep %}
{% endstepper %}

#### 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

<table data-header-hidden><thead><tr><th valign="top"></th><th valign="top"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><strong>Component</strong></td><td valign="top"><strong>API Name</strong></td></tr><tr><td valign="top">PURCH</td><td valign="top">PurchaseOrderHandling.svc</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">PURCH</td><td valign="top">PurchaseOrderChangeOrderHandling.svc</td></tr></tbody></table>