The decision as to whether to buy an item to meet a sales order or not can be determined either at sales order entry time, or at some later time once orders have been entered and reports printed. The decision process must be clear, and could involve Datafile routines, such as ProFiler options, if you want some automatic marking procedure.
Header Link?
The usual procedure is to mark the sales order for purchase generation at the order detail level. In some circumstances, where the receipt of a sales order automatically requires a purchase order for all the details and they are all from the same supplier you can mark the sales order for purchase generation at the header level and enter the supplier on the header also.
During Sales Order Entry you will be prompted for:
Reply Y to mark this sales order detail for purchase via the Back-to-Back process, or leave at N otherwise. Note, however, that if this sales order is a credit, then you cannot mark the Purchase? flag for obvious reasons.
Depending on the complexity of your requirements, there may be a number of other data items to enter if your purchasing process is to work effectively. You may want to configure these additional prompts to appear on one of the selective order detail screens – to appear when the purchase flag is set – so that operators do not have to process inputs that do not apply.
This is updated from the default supplier on the stock file. Accept or amend as required.
This is quantity to be purchased. The default is taken from the stock Ideal Buy Quantity (sometimes known as the re-order quantity) field, if present, unless this item is zero. In this case it is the sales order quantity which is used as the order quantity.
This is the cost price to be used on the purchase order and also will be used as the cost-of-sale on the sales order (and as such is the standard unit-cost recorded on the sales order). It is updated from the cost price field on the stock file automatically.
Header Link?
Although the purchase order flag and the supplier are set on the order header if using the header link, you can still confirm the purchase order quantity and the cost price to be used.
On exit from sales order header – always if header link in use, optionally if detail link is used – the operator can be prompted to create the purchase order now for the supplier.You may not want to do this if you wish to group orders for one supplier from several sales orders.
Article ID: 1510
Created On: Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 3:42 PM
Last Updated On: Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 5:41 PM
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