Key tasks: Manage vendor status change requests
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Applies To: Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3, Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2, Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Feature Pack, Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012
When an employee wants to work with a vendor that is on hold, the employee can request to have the vendor's hold status changed. As a reviewer, you are responsible for reviewing new vendor status change requests, and for approving or rejecting them. Employees submit vendor status change requests by using the Employee services site in Enterprise Portal for Microsoft Dynamics AX.
Prerequisites
A system administrator must set up the workflow tasks for the vendor request process. For more information about the workflow tasks, see Setting up and maintaining procurement and sourcing workflows.
A system administrator must set up the Vendor status change request page for the Employee services site in Enterprise Portal. For more information about how to configure the Vendor status change request page, see Set up vendor status change requests.
What do you want to do?
Approve vendor status change requests
Reject vendor status change requests
Delegate vendor status change approval
View workflow history for a vendor status change request
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Approve vendor status change requests
Use this procedure to review and approve a request from an employee to change a vendor’s hold status.
Click Procurement and sourcing > Common > Vendor requests > Vendor requests.
On the Vendor requests list page, open a request that has a request type of Status change.
In the New status change request form, review the request.
To approve the request, in the workflow message bar, click Actions > Approve.
In the Vendor status change request workflow form, enter an optional comment, and then click Approve.
Note
The requester, approver, and vendor can see any comments that you add in the workflow history.
The vendor’s hold status changes, and the employee can conduct business with the vendor.
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Reject vendor status change requests
Use this procedure to review and reject a request from an employee to change a vendor’s hold status.
Click Procurement and sourcing > Common > Vendor requests > Vendor requests.
On the Vendor requests list page, open a request that has a request type of Status change.
In the New status change request form, review the request.
To reject the request, in the workflow message bar, click Actions > Reject.
In the Vendor status change request workflow form, enter an optional comment, and then click Reject. When you reject a request, the workflow ends for the rejected vendor request.
Note
The requester, approver, and vendor can see any comments that you add in the workflow history.
The vendor’s hold status does not change.
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Delegate vendor status change approval
Use this procedure to assign the workflow task of reviewing a vendor request to another authorized employee.
Click Procurement and sourcing > Common > Vendor requests > Vendor requests.
On the Vendor requests list page, open a request that has a request type of Status change.
In the New status change request form, review the request.
In the New status change request form, in the workflow message bar, click Actions > Delegate.
In the Vendor status change request workflow form, in the User field, select the identifier for an employee who is authorized to review vendor requests. Enter an optional comment, and then click Delegate.
Note
The requester, approver, and vendor can see any comments that you add in the workflow history.
The employee that you select is notified via workflow to review the vendor request.
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View workflow history for a vendor status change request
Status change requests that an employee submits in the Employee services site in Enterprise Portal are moved to the Microsoft Dynamics AX client via workflow. You can track the progress of the request in the workflow history. Use this procedure to view the details of completed tasks in workflow for a vendor request.
Click Procurement and sourcing > Common > Vendor requests > Vendor requests.
On the Vendor requests list page, open a request that has a request type of Status change.
In the New status change request form, in the workflow message bar, click Actions > View history.
In the Workflow history form, view the status of the request, and view the names of employees who are assigned to each workflow task.
On the Details tab, view details about the completed steps in the workflow for this vendor request.
For more information about workflow, see Workflow history (form).
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