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Inventory Purchase Order Grid

Purchase Orders

The Purchase Order screen allows the User to create and manage Inventory. Purchase Orders require a Vendor and a Warehouse, Equipment from the Warehouse can then be added to the Purchase Order. The Purchase Order number can be configured with the ALLOW_CUSTOM_PO_NUMBER

The Basics

  • Required Fields:
    • Status - The status of the Purchase Order will allow Inventory Managers to sort Purchase Orders more easily. The Workflow Rules will give the User some more insight into how the Statuses control the Purchase Order process.
      • Pending - The Pending status is meant to be used when you are building a Purchase Order, but before you have sent it to the Vendor. This status allows for internal processes like approvals from internal organizational business practices to go through. If the Purchase Order or Equipment on it is declined at any point before the Purchase Order is sent to the Vendor, they can be edited by the Inventory Manager.
      • Open - The Open status is meant to be used once the Purchase Order has been sent to a Vendor and you are waiting on the Equipment to be shipped. Once the Equipment is received it can be brought into Inventory from the Purchase Order.
      • Closed - The Closed status can only be set once all the Inventory is received on the Purchase Order. This status lets Users know that the Purchase Order has been addressed and all the Inventory is received.
    • Created Date - The Created Date field will let Users know when the Purchase Order is created.
    • Warehouse - The Warehouse field will auto populate with the Master Default Warehouse . Once the Purchase Order is created this field becomes read only.
    • Vendor - The Vendor is required because the Purchase Order will be limited to only valid Equipment Catalogs associated with the Vendor.

Purchase Order video

Introduction to the basics of Purchase Orders.

Adding a new Purchase Order

To create a new Purchase Order click the Add button on the grid. When the Purchase Order form opens, select the Warehouse where the ordered Equipment will be located and select the Vendor. Before you can continue with adding Equipment, you must save the new Purchase Order to allow the Equipment to grid know which Vendor you've chosen and can show you the correct list of Equipment for that Vendor.

Add New Purchase Order

Editing

A Purchase Order (PO) can only be edited while it is in a 'Pending' status. Once the status has been set to 'Open' and approved, the order is locked, and an additional PO will have to be submitted instead of modifying the current one. The steps to edit a PO are as follows:

  1. Locate a PO in the grid with a 'Pending' status that you wish to modify.
  2. Single click to select the PO, and click the Edit Selected button. Alternatively, double-click the PO. This will bring up the Manage Purchase Order Dialog. From here the User can select the Equipment to edit, add to the current order, or delete items that were ordered in excess.

Workflow Rules

A brand new PO has a status of "Pending", which means the PO is still under construction, not finalized or ready to send to the Vendor. At this point, Equipment can be added, edited, and removed from the PO. However, you cannot yet Receive or Cancel lines because the Vendor hasn't seen the order yet.

  • A "Pending" PO can only be changed to "Open" status. However, the PO can be deleted from the system if you need to kill the order completely — even if it's been Approved.</li>
  • A "Pending" PO can be Approved, at which point the ability to add/edit/delete Equipment is locked. However, since the order is not yet "Open" (the Vendor hasn't received it yet), you can't Receive or Cancel lines, either.*
  • There are a couple of optional settings for "Open" POs that affect how it can be edited. Typically, once a PO is "Open", the ability to Add/Edit/Delete Equipment is locked, and you switch to the Receiving phase where you either receive the equipment or cancel it. Once "Open", the equipment can be processed through Receive/Cancel actions.
  • An "Open" PO can only be changed to "Closed". It can no longer be deleted from the system. However, once you begin Receiving/Canceling line items, you must finish before closing the order. If no such activity has occurred yet, you can close the untouched order. If you need to close a partially-complete PO because you won't receive any further equipment on it, Cancel the remainder of each line before closing the order.</li>
  • Once a PO is "Closed", no further action can be taken on it. You can only open the form to review the information on it.

Add to Order

To use the Add to Order ButtonPurchase Order must be at a 'Pending' Status.

  1. Click the Add to Order button.
  2. This will open the 'Add New Purchase Order Equipment' form.

Add New Purchase Order Equipment

3. Select the 'Equipment Catalog' to be purchased, the 'Ordered Date', input the 'Quantity' of the Equipment and 'Price Per Quantity.'

Note: In the figure above, note the Units and Price Per Quantity fields (indicated with arrows). The Equipment grid will group similar selections together as much as possible. If the Equipment is a "Has Units" item, the Units field will show and that field can be used to set the Unit count. The Quantity is how many each of that Unit count that is being ordered. For example, the User can order 10 boxes of pencils, but how many are in each box: 25, 50, 100? Quantity is the 10, Units is the 25/50/100. When a Units value on a Purchase Order that is different from another record of the same Equipment is set, this tells the system the User wants some boxes of 25 pencils and some other boxes of 50 pencils. This generates separate line items for "boxes of pencils".

As with Units, Price Per Quantity acts the same way. Maybe the Vendor only has 15 boxes of pencils in stock at their normal price, but can special order the additional 30 that is needed, at a different price. The User can enter the 15 at one price, and create another line item for the other 30 at the other price, which results in separate line items.

4. Click the Add to Order button.

The Equipment will now be added to the grid on the Equipment tab. The Purchase Order can be advanced when all Equipment has been added.

Edit Line

To use the Edit Line buttonPurchase Order must be at a 'Pending' or 'Open' Status and there must already be some Equipment in the grid. 

  1. Single-click to select the Equipment to edit, and click the Edit Line button or double click the Equipment to edit.
  2. This will open the 'Manage Purchase Order Equipment' form.

Manage Purchase Order Equipment

      3. The Manage Purchase Order Equipment dialog will open and the User can edit three fields. Ordered Date, Quantity, and Price per Quantity.

Note: The 'Equipment Catalog' field will be greyed out.

      4. Make the necessary modifications in the appropriate fields. Please note that following changes to the line item management form, the form will add additional quantity to all matching lines, it does not adjust the quantity.

      5. Click on the Update Line button.

The Equipment Catalog will now be updated with the information that was selected.

Delete

To use the Delete buttonPurchase order must be at a 'Pending' Status and there must already be some Equipment in the grid.

  1. Select the Equipment from the grid to remove from the order.
  2. Click the Delete button.
  3. This will open the 'Confirm Delete' dialog.

Delete Equipment Catalog on PO

4. Click the Delete buttonto confirm.

5. The 'Equipment Catalog' item is deleted from the order.

Receive Item(s)

To use the Receive Item(s) buttonthe Purchase Order must be at an 'Open' Status and there must already be some Equipment in the grid in the 'Pending' Column.

  1. Select the Equipment from the grid to receive on the Purchase Order.
  2. Click the Receive Item(s) button.
  3. This will open the 'Receive Purchase Order Equipment' form.

Receive Purchase Order Equipment

        4. Select the 'Warehouse' to receive the Equipment to, the 'Received Date' to receive the Equipment and the 'Quantity' of the Equipment that is to be received.

Note: If the amount in the Quantity field is greater than the amount in the Pending Quantity field, when the User clicks the Receive button the User will get an error window stating: "The received quantity X is more than x still Pending for this item."

        5. Click the Receive button.

The Equipment will now be added to the Warehouse the User selected at the Date and at the Quantity the User selected.

When a new piece of Equipment is saved, PCR-360 will populate the Warranty Date based on the Warranty period defined in the Equipment Catalog and the date the Equipment was added into the System.

Cancel Items(s)

To use the Cancel Item(s) buttonthe Purchase Order but be at an 'Open' Status and there must already be some Equipment in the grid in the 'Pending'Column

  1. Select the Equipment from the grid to cancel on the Purchase Order.
  2. Click the Cancel Item(s) button.
  3. This will open the 'Cancel Purchase Order Equipment' form.

Cancel Purchase Order Equipment

        4. Fill in the 'Cancel Qty' for the number of items to canceled and select the 'Cancelled Date' for the date be used to cancel the items.

        5. Click the Save and Close button.

The Equipment will be removed from the Purchase Order based on the number of items that were selected. The number of items in the Pending Column will be reduced by the number of items that were selected and the Canceled Column will be increased by the number of items that were selected.





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