Purchase agreement responsible party feature in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management

In this blogpost I would like to go through the feature and explain what has been done in scope of this feature.

Name: Purchase agreement responsible party

Description: This feature enables the ability to define a primary and secondary responsible party on the Purchase agreement classification form and resulting Purchase agreements.

Within this feature the following capabilities were introduced:

• Allow users to identify the employees that are responsible for maintaining purchase agreements. 
• Users can now mark a Purchase agreement as 'closed' to signal the agreement is no longer actively used, making it so users will not be able to create release orders from the purchase agreement. 

When this feature is enabled, two new fields will appear on the Purchase agreement classifications page (Procurement and sourcing > Setup > Purchase agreement classification)

When you define the responsible workers, a secondary responsible worker cannot be defined without a primary responsible worker. The same worker cannot be defined as both the primary and secondary responsible worker.

When Purchase agreement is being created, Primary and secondary responsible workers fields are getting defaulted from Purchase agreement classification page.

Purchase agreements can now be marked as 'Closed'. This status appropriately indicates to the user that this document will no longer be in use moving forward. Additionally, the Confirmation and Pro forma buttons in the action pane are disabled. 

Like for the On hold purchase agreements, you cannot select Closed purchase agreements in the Purchase order creation dialog. 

That's it!