Overview

Purchase Orders are how you can create a requisition that may be emailed directly to your Vendor / Supplier asking them to supply Inventory Items. Your Purchase order will usually detail quantities of goods or services, at a price point, as well as delivery terms. A Purchase Order can be partially or Fully Received and turned into a Journal Document with relatively few clicks – saving you time and money.

“Purchase orders are an important tool that businesses should use to ensure spend stays within budget. Without purchase orders tracking expenses is more difficult, prone to errors and validating delivery reports becomes a nightmare.”

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Create a Purchase Order

Navigate to BOM / Documents / Purchasing Orders.

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Previous topics have covered navigating and filtering your Purchase Order list.

We are now concerned with raising / creating / adding a new Purchase Order.

Select the control called <Make Order>.

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This screen presents you with a list of all of your Inventory Items. In a nut shell, you will select Inventory Items from the left hand column and add them to the right hand column. You will update the Quantity and the Cost Price of each Item as well as which Vendor to use, which Inventory Location the products will be held at and the expected Delivery Date.

To assist when you have a large number of possible Inventory Items to select from, you may :

Use the “Search Box” to perform a partial text search
Create a <Filter> where you can preset a Stock Location, an Inventory Category or a Vendor.

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Add the Inventory Item to your Purchase Order

Remove the Inventory Item to your Purchase Order

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Once you have something that looks like the above, don’t forget to click <Save>.

Email a Purchase Order

Navigate to BOM / Documents / Purchasing Orders.

Once you have clicked <Save> on your new Purchase Order, you will be returned to the Purchase Orders List.

From here, you can select a Purchase Order, click on <Email> and it will be sent to your Vendor for fulfillment. Also notice that the Status has changed from “New” to “Sent”.

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NOTE : you could also do this when drilled down into the Purchase order.

Duplicate / Repeat a Purchase Order

Navigate to BOM / Documents / Purchasing Orders.

Do you have recurring Purchase Orders or ones that are mostly the same with a few tweaks ? Wouldn’t it be nice to just be able to select an existing Purchase order and repeat it ?

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When you select <Duplicate> you will be presented with the “Add Order” screen, populated with the Inventory Items from the selected Purchase Order, ready for you to change, save and / or email.

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