Clicking on Review Changes will bring up all Purchase orders that have one or more proposed changes by the Supplier.
Step 1: Against a Purchase Order, from the Action drop down, choose Review.
Step 2: MeRLIN presents the Release Schedule of the chosen Purchase Order, with a side-by-side comparison of originally scheduled and requested quantities for each Release Item. Release Items carrying proposed changes are highlighted along with the option to accept or reject.
Step 3: Understand the proposed changes by going over the highlighted Release Items. In the above example, 100 quantities of an Item was originally scheduled for 25-Mar-2021. Now the Supplier is proposing to reduce the quantity of the Item to 25. The Supplier is also proposing to advance the Release of the remaining 75 quantities by splitting them into 50 on 12-Mar-2021 and 25 on 18-Mar-2021. There are no scheduled releases of the Item for the proposed dates.
Step 4: An expeditor can choose to accept/reject proposed changes Item by Item by clicking on Accept or Reject icon against the Item or choose to accept/reject proposed changes across all Items by clicking Accept All or Reject All buttons at the top of the grid.
NOTE: It is not possible to partially accept changes in an Item. In the above example, it is not possible accept the proposed quantity of 25 units on 18-Mar-2021, but reject the 50 units on 12-Mar-2021.