Purchase order cycle and warehouse management
As we have inventory management and planning functionality covered, it is a good time to look at purchasing, which is the remaining aspect of the logistics chain. We will look at purchasing, which is triggered by the inventory demand forecasting system. In addition, the deliveries that are incoming and those outgoing to customers are a main subject for related warehouse management functionality.
We will now continue with the process of creating a PO and the relevant deliveries processing.
The PO (purchase order) process starts with the creation of a PO. As part of the PO, there should be a negotiation process. In SAP Business ONE, this negotiation is easily supported with all of the integrated information, such as purchase history from various vendors. For example, we can use the purchase analysis report, available via the Purchasing A/P – Purchasing Reports menu, to get information about prices we secured in the past. In addition, we can use...