Requisitions can be used to create purchase order lines. Requisitions are entered manually, or generated by the system from the work order and planning modules. In either case, the data contained in the requisition can be transferred into the purchase order, where it can be accepted or changed. Requisitions are entered manually with program PORE, Requisition Entry/Maintenance.
A requisition must be approved (with program POQA, Quick Requisition Approval, or program PODA, Detailed Requisition Approval) before it can be applied to a purchase order. When a requisition is used on a purchase order, you are given the option to close it automatically.
Purchase orders are created from requisitions in two ways:
* Added to an existing purchase order using the Requisition Tab
* Used to create a purchase order or added to an existing purchase order with program PORK, Requisition to PO Conversion.
When vendors are set up with minimum freight values and minimum purchase order values in program VEMM, Vendor Master Maintenance, purchase orders entered with a value lower than those vendor values will not be displayed in program POFM, Maintain PO Print Flags, for printing or transmission to the vendor. When the purchase order value is then increased to be equal to or more than the vendor minimums, the purchase order will be displayed.
In order to assist in expediting the purchase orders that fall within this category, when the EXPEDITE_PO parameter is set to YES in program MURM, Initialization Parameter Maintenance, the purchase order date for these purchase orders will be changed to the system date when purchase order value meets or exceeds the vendor minimums.
See program MURM, Initialization Parameter Maintenance, for information on setting up the EXPEDITE_PO parameter.