Purchasing
Purchasing turns a need into a commitment to a vendor: requisitions, quotations and their comparison, purchase orders and return orders, import shipments, agreed prices and supplier deals. Receiving the goods and paying the vendor happen in other areas.
Set up
- How do I set up purchasing for a company?
- How do I agree prices with a vendor for a period?
- How do I record a vendor's promotion so orders get it?
Every day
- How do I raise a purchase requisition?
- How do I get quotations from vendors and pick the best?
- How do I turn a requisition into purchase orders?
- How do I create a purchase order?
- How do I pay a vendor an advance on an order?
- How do I buy imported goods on an incoming shipment?
- How do I order from a sister company?
Corrections and period end
- How do I return goods to a vendor?
- How do I change a purchase order after goods have arrived?
- How do I close old purchase orders?
- How do I keep purchases inside the budget?
The whole chain
Procure to pay - from requisition to payment, across Purchasing, Inventory, Payables and Cash and bank.
What posts
What posts in Purchasing - nothing in Purchasing posts; where the postings happen instead.