Purchase Order Goes to Status of Pending Bill Instead of Pending Receipt

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****** Disclaimer: This response was generated by an artificial intelligence assistant based on previous conversations from multiple Slack channels, and may contain inaccuracies or mistakes. ****** The status of a Purchase Order (PO) in NetSuite changes to Pending Bill when the items on the PO do not require receipt. If you want the status to be Pending Receipt, you need to ensure that the items on the PO require receiving. You can check this on the item record by verifying if the flag "Can be fulfilled/received" is checked. If a PO is marked as Pending Billing but nothing has been received and no items are listed in related records, you can technically change the status back to Pending Receipt. This can be done by editing the PO, such as changing a quantity or updating the memo field. However, this is only possible if the user role has full permission to the PO and it is not locked by the approval workflow. If it is locked by the workflow, you may need to add exceptions for the specific user roles in the lock record workflow action. If you want to change the status from Pending Receipt to Billed/Closed, you can post the item receipt to receive all items and then enter the vendor bill to bill all items. If you want to avoid the receive items stage, you can change the items so they don’t need to be received. On the item record, you can set "can be received = F". Then, you can use a workflow to transform the PO into a vendor bill automatically.