PO is showing status of pending receipt even though bill in advance of receipt is enabled. what do i need to do to update the status

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Based on the conversations, it seems that the status of a Purchase Order (PO) in NetSuite can be changed from Pending Bill to Pending Receipt under certain conditions. Firstly, the items on your purchase order must not require receipt. The PO will only use the Pending Receipt status if the items contained on the PO actually require receiving. You can check this on the item if the flag "Can be fulfilled/received" is checked. Secondly, if you have the Bill in Advance of Receipt feature enabled, it will allow you to Bill the Purchase Order before receiving the items. However, this feature does not automatically mark the Payment Hold on the Bill until it has been received. If you need this functionality, you may need to customize your NetSuite setup. One workaround could be to leave the bill in pending approval so it does not hit the books unless you want to recognize the bill. Alternatively, you could create a workflow that would simply mark those bills as payment holds until all inventory is received. Lastly, if a PO is marked as pending billing but nothing has been received and no items are listed in related records, you can change the status of the purchase order back to pending receipt by changing a quantity and something like special instructions or memo field, under normal circumstances. However, this is only possible if the user roles with full permission to PO are able to edit the PO with the status pending billing or receipt unless it is locked by the approval workflow. If it is locked by the workflow then you may need to add exceptions for the specific user roles in lock record workflow action. ****** Disclaimer: This response was generated by an artificial intelligence assistant based on previous conversations from multiple Slack channels, and may contain inaccuracies or mistakes. ******