Purchase Orders - Main

The supplier the goods are being ordered from. All items that are entered in this purchase order must belong to this supplier.

The store location that is raising the purchase order.

Required By

The date the goods are required by. The field Max Number of Days in Advance field in Supplier ordering tab will define the maximum required by date that a PO can be raised against.

All other dates, both old and outside the max number of days in advance will be greyed out and cannot be selected.

Delivery/Delivery To

This is the date range between which you want the supplier to deliver the goods. The 'To' date will default to the 'From' date. Based on Order Frequencies and Delivery Slots set up by the supplier, the system will look for an order frequency which applies to all items. If it cannot find one, it will simply assume the Delivery date is tomorrow.

Payment Due

The date we expect payment to be due. This is calculated as the delivery date plus the standard number of days payment is due to the supplier.

Supplier PO Ref

The supplier may give you their reference number for your purchase order. That number can be entered here for reference purposes.

Agent

The agent who helped to prepare the order, if any. If an agent is added then as items are added to the purchase order, the system will perform a check. If the item did not come from that agent, a warning message will be displayed. This will not stop the item from being used but simply warns the user that the item may not be correct.

Customer Number

If this purchase order is being done on behalf of a specific customer you can enter the customer's number here as a reference. If you don't know their number, press the Customer button to do a search. Only one customer can be recorded per purchase order.

Customer Reference

Any reference number the customer may have given us for their order.

Transaction #

If this purchase order is being done for a specific customer order, you can enter the transaction number of the order here. If you don't know the transaction number, press the Transaction# button. This will allow you to search for transactions for the specified customer.

Special Instructions

These are special instructions to the supplier regarding delivery, for example 'warehouse is closed from 3.00PM'. A default instruction can be recorded on the Special Messages tab of the Locations function. A different message can be set up for each location. This default instruction will be displayed for each new purchase order. You can keep the instructions or change them as required.

Comments

A general comment about the purchase order. This is simply used for your own notation. For example, 'do a special check for damage when goods come in'.

Status

The status of the current purchase order. The system will update the status automatically as you create, and prepare the purchase order. The status codes are:

Created

The time when the purchase order was created. This is set automatically by the system.

Created By

The user who created the purchase order.

Amended

The server date and time the purchase order was last amended whilst awaiting authorisation.

Amended By

The ID of the user who made the amendments to the purchase order.

Authorised Date

The date and time the purchase order was authorised.

Authorised By

The code of the user who authorised the purchase order when it was sent.

Buyer

The Buyer Code of the user who accepted the order. When the order is accepted the system will do a variety of checks based on the buyer code, for example minimum/maximum value of purchase orders. If the checks fail, the system will ask for an authorising user. The buyer code for that user will then be recorded against the purchase order and the limits rechecked for that buyer code.

Type

The type of purchase order. This will be ORDER for a standard purchase order. If you do a claim by pressing the Returns button, the type will be CLAIM. If you do a return by pressing the Returns button or the total ordered quantity is negative, the type will be RETURN.

You can use these types when doing searches. They also have an impact on the appearance of the printed purchase order.

Main PO#

If you do allocated orders, the first purchase order in the set will be considered the main purchase order. The number of this main purchase order will be recorded as the Main PO# for each related purchase order.

Press this to accept the purchase order and send it to the supplier. If EDI is an option for this supplier then it will process through the EDI routes.

Press this button to cancel the purchase order after it has been Sent.

Press this button to import items from another source such as a handheld or spreadsheet. See Importing Data for further details.

When selected, this will trigger the Items tab to be populated with all items for the supplier and a stock area template.