New features added, version 7.5.3, 8.1
Program POPP, Purchase Order Purge, is used to purge closed purchase order records for your manufacturing enterprise and plant.
* Purchase orders for which there are open or on hold receiving lines will not be purged.
* Purchase orders that are linked to receiving lines that have not been purged will not be purged.
1. You can only purge closed purchase orders with no open receivers in the manufacturing enterprise and plant into which you are logged in program SPDM, System User Default Maintenance.
2. In the Last Active Date field, enter the last active date for which you wish to purge purchase orders. The program will consider all closed purchase order that occur on or before the date that you enter here.
3. The orders that can be purged will be displayed as selected for purge in the lower block.
4. Deselect the purchase orders that you do not want to be purged. Orders that are not selected will have the select flag to the left of the Order No field set to off.
* To select all purchase orders to be purged, press the [Select All] 
button. You can deselect purchase orders after this button has been pressed.
* To deselect all purchase orders, press the [Deselect All] 
button. You can select purchase orders after this button has been pressed.
5. Press the [Purge Selected] button to purge all purchase orders that are selected in the lower block.
6. Some purchase orders may not be able to be purged. When the purge is complete, requery the orders to view those that could not be purged.
Press this button to deselect all purchase orders displayed in the lower block.
Press this button to purge the selected purchase orders.
Press this button to query the purchase orders whose last active date occurred before the date entered in the Last Active Date field.
Press this button to select all purchase orders displayed in the lower block.
Press this button to view the information about the last time the records were purged. The information includes the employee number, financial enterprise, manufacturing enterprise, plant code, date archived, earliest transaction date, and comments. The comment field can be maintained.