Skip to content
Report · Purchasing

Purchase orders pending approval

Purchase orders waiting for supervisor approval, oldest first.

  • approvals
  • operational
  • purchasing
Sample preview, fictional dataYour own figures appear after import.

01

About this report

Every purchase order in Pending Supervisor Approval. Each row gives the vendor, the employee named on the order as Requested by, order date, days waiting, memo, and the total in the order currency and in base currency.

Sort by Days waiting to clear the oldest first. The order number opens the purchase order.

02

Sample preview

Fictional figures in the shape you will see. Yours come from your account.

Purchase orderVendorRequested byOrder dateDays waitingMemoCurrencyTotal (order currency)Total
PO4466Eastfield ElectronicsPriya Natarajan2026-09-168Q4 controller stockUS Dollar21,40021,400
PO4471Lakeshore PackagingTom Okafor2026-09-195US Dollar3,1003,100
PO4475Nordic Tooling ABTom Okafor2026-09-222Replacement diesEuro6,8007,412

03

The SuiteQL

This is the query each report runs. Read it, copy it, or change it after import.

Purchase orders pending approval
SELECT t.id AS po__id,
       t.tranid AS po,
       NVL(v.altname, v.entityid) AS vendor,
       BUILTIN.DF(t.employee) AS requested_by,
       TO_CHAR(t.trandate, 'YYYY-MM-DD') AS order_date,
       TRUNC(SYSDATE) - TRUNC(t.trandate) AS days_waiting,
       t.memo AS memo,
       BUILTIN.DF(t.currency) AS currency,
       t.foreigntotal AS total_fx,
       t.foreigntotal * t.exchangerate AS total
  FROM transaction t
  JOIN entity v ON v.id = t.entity
 WHERE t.type = 'PurchOrd'
   AND t.status IN ('PurchOrd:A', 'A')
 ORDER BY t.trandate

ReportPurchasing

Purchase orders pending approval

Screenshot of the Purchase orders pending approval report in HiScale Advanced Reports, filled with fictional sample data
Sample preview, fictional dataOpen image full size (opens in a new tab)