Guide
See why a purchase order is held and who approves it
A held purchase order names the rule that holds it and who it is waiting on, shows what approving it does to cash and stock cover, and keeps every decision and reason in its approval history.
When your approval policy holds a purchase order, the order says why and who it is waiting on, so nobody has to guess whose turn it is.
Why an order is held
Open the order under Purchasing. A held order reads, for example, Held by: Supplier needs extra approval · Waiting on: Lead or Owner (approval 1 of 2). The rule is one of your approval bands, a supplier marked as needing extra approval, the approval threshold, the submitter's own approval limit, or the rule that someone other than the submitter must approve. Once the first approver signs, Waiting on moves to the next one.
The same line appears on each held order in Flagged Items & Approvals, where you can filter by Rule or by Waiting on, and sort by amount, age or supplier. The filters live in the page address, so you can bookmark or share a filtered list.
Preview who would approve
In Settings, under Who can approve orders, use Preview who approves: enter an order amount and pick a supplier, then click Preview. Skuvelo checks the policy as you have drafted it, before you save, and names who would approve it. The preview uses the same check as a real order.
What approving changes
Beside Approve, the order shows Cash after approval, taken from your cash plan, and each SKU's cover before and after the order arrives, in days, from your planning figures. The supplier's on-time record sits alongside, and reads Not measured yet until the supplier has a delivery record. Skuvelo never shows a zero in place of a missing figure: when there is no cash plan, or it is in another currency than the order, the panel says No cash-after figure and why, and SKUs with no demand rate yet are listed under No cover figure.
Cover is shown per SKU across all your channels. It is not split by channel.
Send back or reject with a reason
Request changes returns the order to draft, and Reject purchase order closes it. Both need a reason. Every approval, rejection and send-back is recorded in the order's approval history with who did it, when, which rule held the order, and the reason. You can download that history as a CSV from the order.
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