Purchase Order Features

• Enter active purchase orders, standing purchase orders, future purchase orders and blanket purchase orders
  
  
• Automatically update the amount spent and remaining on each blanket purchase order as additional items are ordered
  
  
• Use seven costing methods for the default item cost, Most Recent Cost, Standard Cost, Average Cost, Vendor Cost, Last Unit Cost and two alternate amounts, for added flexibility
  
  
• Enter details for requested items from multiple vendors or without specifyin vendors on a single requisition, and then automatically create purchase orders for each vendor
  
  
• Create one purchase order from multiple requisitions and select the requisition details by vendor number and Inventory Control vendor type
  
  
• Leave purchase orders open indefinitely until all items are received or cancel any remaining ordered items at any time
  
  
• Quickly consolidate items from multiple purchase orders on a single receipt
  
  
• Process multiple invoices for a single receipt
  
  
• Designate non-inventory item numbers for one-time purchases, office supplies and any non-inventory item
  
  
• Automatically receive all items on a purchase order at once or receive partial purchase orders, entering quantities only for received items
  
  
• Receive items with or without first entering a purchase order for those items
  
  
• Process adjustments to quantities, item costs and additional costs directly on the receipt or return, rather than as separate inventory adjustments
  
  
• Allocate additional charges by quantity, weight or cost, or manually specify the cost
  
  
• Automatically produce purchase orders from Inventory Control reorder information or from Order Entry orders
  
  
• Quickly create templates of standard information to speed data entry
  
  
• Include all items on sales orders or only those items that have a back-ordered quantity, or items that have an insufficient inventory quantity
  
  
• Automatically drop ship items directly from the vendor to the customer
  
  
• Enter additional costs such as freight or duty on a single receipt for received inventory items from multiple vendors, and easily create a separate invoice for each vendor
  
  
• Set up any number of additional cost codes for efficient entry of standard costs
  
  
• Choose the type of Inventory Control item cost to display as the default cost
  
  
• Enter quantities using any unit of measure defined in Inventory Control
  
  
• Restrict access to Purchase Orders windows, costs and quantities on invoices, and credit note adjustments
  
  
• Print requisitions, purchase orders, receiving slips, returns and mailing labels using standard Purchase Orders formats, or design custom forms and reports using the built-in report writers
  
  
• Create messages you can use when sending purchase orders and returns to your vendors by e-mail
  
  
• Use Purchase Orders as a stand-alone module or integrated with Inventory Control

Standard Reports

Some of the reports included are: