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Tips   Edit a line item

When you edit items from the Checkout screen, as opposed to editing items from the Shopping Cart, additional information (such as accounting and shipping information, and comments) is included.

If a non-catalog item's price is specified by a contract, you cannot change the price.

If you are editing a line item from an order whose status is Shipping, Shipped, Receiving, or Invoicing, you can change any field but: unit price, unit of measure, item description, supplier, supplier location, and supplier part number. Note that although you can change the quantity and amount, they cannot be less than what has already been shipped or received.

If orders are pushed to an ERP system, you cannot edit these fields (in addition to those listed above):

ERP Non-editable fields
Oracle Bill To, Currency, Organization, Supplier, Supplier Location
PeopleSoft Bill To, Currency, Supplier, and Supplier Location
SAP Bill To, Currency, Item Category, Purchase Group, Purchase Organization, Vendor

To change a non-editable field, delete the line item and then create a new line item with the correct values.

Related topics

Split accounting for a line item

View items in the shopping cart

Cancel purchase orders

Change purchase orders

Create formula pricing

 

Screen details

To display the Edit Line Item screen, click Edit for a line item on the Shopping Cart or the Checkout screen.

 
  1. Change line item details.
    • You cannot add or change service line items on SAP orders (you can add or change material line items only), but you can delete the service line items or cancel the entire order.
    • Fill in missing information. Required fields are highlighted in yellow.
    • If a supplier is Unspecified, choose a supplier if appropriate.
  2. Change accounting information, if displayed.
    • Account type is not displayed for non-catalog line items.
    • To spread the cost among multiple accounting groups, click Split Accounting.
    • On Oracle orders, you cannot delete split accountings but you can change them to use different values.
  3. Change shipping information, if displayed.
  4. Review or add comments, if displayed. You can delete or add comments until you submit a request; at that point, the comments are saved permanently.
    • To add comments, click Add Comment.
    • You can view, reply to, or delete existing comments, and specify a file to include as an attachment with the comments.
    • If you reply to a comment, your reply is also sent to the author of the comments to which you are replying.
  5. Click OK to save the changes and return to the previous screen, or Cancel to return to the previous screen without saving changes.

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