How to purge receipts in Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Suite

Answer

The receipts cannot be purged until the Inspection_pending_flag is set to Y on the receipt. The value of this attribute is not defaulted to Y and it depends on the input to receiveorder API. 

This Inspection_pending_flag will be set to Y if:

• The disposition code is not passed. 
• You receive with a disposition code which is not a final disposition.
  

• You pass a final disposition code.

Passing a disposition code while closing a receipt is required to take the receipts to completion. 

Scenario 1:
To proceed on purging the existing closed receipts in the system:

Update YFS_Receipt_Header set Inspection_pending_flag=N where OPEN_RECEIPT_FLAG = N. 

Scenario 2:
To prevent any new receipts being closed to be in the same situation:

The receipt should not be received without any disposition code. 

Workaround:
Set up a dummy disposition code and pass the same while closing the receipts(receiveOrder API). 

Ensure that the dummy disposition Code is configured as type FinalDisposition.

This would inturn ensure that IS_INSPECTION_PENDING flag is passed as N and the receipts get purged as expected.