Create Purchase Orders for Proposed Purchase Orders

Purpose

Create Purchase Orders for all or selected Proposed Purchase Orders.

How to… Create Purchase Orders for Proposed Purchase Orders

1. Click Material Manager - Purchasing - Proposed Purchase Orders then .
The Proposed Purchase Orders window opens listing the current Proposed Purchase Orders.

2. Click to create Purchase Orders for all Proposed Purchase Orders, or
Highlight the Proposed Work Orders that must be converted to Purchase Orders then click .

3. Click OK when the Generating Purchases Orders message is displayed

4. The Background Task Messages window opens, identifying how many Purchase Orders were created.

5. Close the Background Task Messages window.

6. View Purchase Orders.

As a result...

Purchase Orders are created for the selected Proposed Purchase Orders and the unique Purchase Order Code is displayed in the grid list on the Proposed Purchase Orders browse window.
Each Purchase Order's Code starts with the Code Prefix specified in the System Options - Purchasing tab.

Business rules

If the User does not specify a Site then Purchase Orders will only be generated for the Sites to which the User has access rights.
The User must have access Rights to “View” Background Tasks in the Analysis and Monitoring module.
A Purchase Order is generated for each different Supplier that is specified for Purchase Order Items.
Purchase Order Items on the same Purchase Order must have the same Currency.

Please note!

Created Purchase Orders have a Purchase Order Code.

What can I do?

These non-standard tools are available in the toolbar on the browse window.

Click…	To…
	Open the Generate Proposed Purchase Order Items Filter window, specify filter criteria and generate Proposed Work Orders.
	Create Purchase Orders from selected Proposed Work Orders
	Create Purchase Orders for all Proposed Work Orders
	Delete Proposed Purchase Orders.