PO Approval Errors and Warnings: Line # 1 Shipment # 1 Has no distributions

Hello Gurus,

I was wondering if you could help me explain the difference in R12 Vs 11i.  We are going live on R12 in one month.

In 11i, when you try to approve an Expense Purchase Order, you get the following error: Approval Errors and Warnings: Line # 1 Shipment # 1 Has no distributions. You get this error even though you have the Default Expense Account setup in the employee file. This does not allow you to Approve the PO as the PO Charge Account is not automatically populated.  Which is very good.

In R12, the difference is that you do not get this error message, since it is populating automatically from the default expense account setup in the employee file.