Editing and Approving Suggested Orders (Download to ERP)
Editing and approving suggested vendor, shop, and transfer orders is part of the Requirement Planning / Planner Action process in DemandCaster.
Approving orders may be used when downloading the requirement to your ERP (if enabled) or keeping track of which items have been reviewed when manually entering the orders in your ERP.
Approve Order within Planner Action Detail
- Check boxes of lines that will be approved
- Click Approve orders
Order Lines Order Status field turns Blue
- The blue background identifies that an order line has been approved
- You may reverse an approval by checking the check box of the lines to reverse and clicking on Disapprove
- Click on Download to ERP to initiate the automated order creation process to your ERP (if enabled). Only approved orders are downloaded.
Approve Orders within Item Planning Details Interface
Go to the item detail and click on edit button in Suggested Order column header to open the view.
You may edit orders in either the weekly bucket view or daily view (if enabled).
Suggested Order Column Opens
- Click on "Add" in the row to add a planned order (or)
- Go to the suggested order where you would like to modify or approve the suggested order and click to open the pop-up
- Clicking on "Ø" cancels the suggested order line
Pop-Up Opens
From within the pop-up, you can:
- Click on the date to open the date picker to change the due date
- Click on the quantity, to change the order quantity
- Clicking the "Do not round" checkbox does not round the quantity to it's order increment (case pack)
- Click on drop down to change to an alternate supplier or location
- Select the appropriate Order State:
- Select the Suggested status to have suggested order deleted the next time the requirement plan is generated
- Select Locked to save the suggested order including its changes (Due Date and Order Quantity), and have it preserved when the Requirement Plan is generated
- "Last modified date" contains the date the suggested order was created or locked by the user
- Click "OK" to save
Splitting an Order Line
If you wish to split an order to two suppliers, for example:
- Clicking on the split icon opens up a pop-up to split the order. Use the slider control at the top of the pop-up to accurately split the quantity of the original order.
- This will create a second purchase order line in the same bucket.
Please note that an alternate supplier should be available for the item. This happens automatically if purchases were issued against the alternate supplier in the past. If not, please follow the steps described in the article How to associate more than one supplier with an item
Any Order Changes that are Made May Require
Any order quantity or date changes that are made will require clicking on the "Regenerate Dependent Requirements" button to cascade the changes to dependent locations and/or components. In addition, a notification will be shown indicating that a regeneration of the requirements of the dependent SKUs is required.
The value in the parenthesis identifies the number of entities impacted by the change.
Approved Orders column turn Blue - Planner Action Detail
- If a filter has been placed, please remove the filter and select "Approved" in the Order state drop down in order to view
- Click on Download to ERP to initiate the automated order creation process to your ERP (if enabled). Only approved orders are downloaded.
- Any orders that are split to two lines each from different suppliers will be reflected.
Reviewing Plex Reverse ETL logs
For business nodes that are connected to Plex ERP system, the Download to ERP button initiates communication to send the new or modified suggested orders to Plex ERP. Users can utilize the Plex Order Creation and Plex Shop Order Creation Log menus to view the logs of suggested orders that have been sent to Plex ERP.

Plex Order Creation Log
The Plex Order Creation Log application is used to view the logs of purchase order creation and editing API calls that have been made to the Plex ERP system. Use the API Log icon in the application to view the details of each API call.
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