# Pending State on Purchase Requests

**URL:** https://discuss.tryton.org/t/pending-state-on-purchase-requests/37
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** purchasing
**Created:** [February 11, 2016, 1:02pm UTC](https://discuss.tryton.org/t/pending-state-on-purchase-requests/37 "2016-02-11T13:02:00Z")
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### Author: ![ced](https://discuss-cdn.tryton.org/user_avatar/discuss.tryton.org/ced/32/1237_2.png) [@ced](https://discuss.tryton.org/u/ced)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2016, 2:01pm UTC](https://discuss.tryton.org/t/pending-state-on-purchase-requests/37/27 "2016-02-13T14:01:13Z")

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> [@albert](#):
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> Supplier times differ from one time to the other

You could probably update/historize the delivery time of the supplier or create a supplier load factor.[quote=“albert, post:26, topic:37”]  
there are productions which must be purchased ASAP  
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I don’t understand. What are you purchasing? For me people purchase products/materials not production.

> [@albert](#):
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> people who are not from the purchase department decide which products (purchase requests) have a higher priority

I think we have here the incomprehension. It sounds like you have, by some means, purchase requests created before the sale order being confirmed. In this case, I think this should not be purchase request but probably a new document requesting quotation, delivery time etc. from the purchase department.  
Also I still don’t understand the concept of priority here.

> [@albert](#):
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> they hurry searching which products are most urgent

Based on which criteria? Why is a needed product more urgent than another? If they are all requested, it means they are all needed and there is no priority in that except of course the date when they are needed (aka “Best Purchase Date” and “Expected Supply Date”).

> [@albert](#):
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> the purchase department will ask for several quotations to several suppliers so they need to hold the purchase request until a decision is made

I think this another topic and it will probably require a new document that will be generated from the purchase request.

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So for now, from what I understand about the problem, you just need to have the “Best Purchase Date” set to `None` and be editable for the products that you need to manage manually.  
And for the deletion such purchase request with a date set manually, I think you should keep somewhere (probably on product-supplier) the date configured and put it back on the new similar purchase request (if there are).

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