how to default department from employee to purchase order

AI generated answer (using internal Slack threads):

To default the department from the employee to the purchase order, you need to ensure that the department is set up on the employee's record. This is a native behavior in NetSuite where the Department field on a Purchase Order is sourced from the Employee Field. However, if you have a Purchase Order Approval Workflow in place, you need to ensure that the Employee = User action is set in the initial state of the workflow. This is because whatever the Department of the user is will be set as the Purchase Order's Department. If it's blank, then no department will be set in the header. If you are experiencing issues where the department is not showing for some items during the creation of a purchase order, you should first check if the department is active and available for the subsidiary of the item. If the issue persists, you might want to unset the department and reset it. If the problem only occurs during editing a Purchase Order, it could be due to a workflow or script interfering. You can test this by trying the same process in a sandbox environment where no scripts or workflows are implemented. ****** Disclaimer: This response was generated by an artificial intelligence assistant based on previous conversations from multiple Slack channels, and may contain inaccuracies or mistakes. ******