PO is a contractual document between a buyer and a seller it is important to route the PO to appropriate people for review and approval when promoting the PO. An entry for each PO state transition is recorded on the History table under a PO.  The system records details of each state transition regardless of workflow configuration.

Workflow changes are tracked on the following states:

• Draft to Negotiation
• Negotiation to Ready
• Draft to Ready 
• Ready to Negotiation 
• Issued to Negotiation
• Ready to Issued 
• Issued to Closed

The following attributes are displayed in the default view:

• From State: The Initial State of the PO
• To State: The state Change and the current status of the PO
• Workflow Name: The interim workflow name is displayed
• Workflow Status: This field displays the workflow status
• Created By: The User name is displayed, by whom the State change was initiated.
• Created: The Time stamp is displayed as to when the state change occurred.

IMPORTANT:  A workflow can be assigned to a PO state transition under Setup > Configuration > Sourcing.