Use the purchase document workspaces and enquiries to investigate and find information about your purchase orders and returns and associated order lines. Depending on how complete the order is you view details such as requested goods and services, goods received for each order line, and matched invoices for each order line.
You can amend workspaces to display data to suit your business processes or current task. You can use the filter options and column selector to choose the data that is displayed.
You can use the Workspace Designer to change the content or to create your own workspaces. You can add or remove content and change the available actions, the reports, the columns and how they are displayed, the default filters used for the toolbar filter and so on.
In the desktop application, workspaces can be opened from the menu or from the drop-down list.
In the web browser, workspaces are opened from the drop-down list.
To open from the drop-down list, click the arrow next to the workspace title to open another workspace .
The following workspaces and enquiries are available in Purchase Order Processing.
Open: Purchase Order Processing > Enquiries > Purchase Documents.
Use this to see information about your purchase documents such as goods received and invoicing details.
You can:
Open a related workspace with the content already filtered. For example, if you want to view the lines for a specific order, select the order (using the check box) and choose Actions > Purchase Document Line Enquiry. The Purchase Document Line Enquiry workspace opens with the list of lines filtered for the selected order.
Note: This option is not available if you have more than one row selected.
Run related reports.
Open: Purchase Order Processing > Enquiries > Purchase Document Lines.
Use this to see a list of all the lines on your purchase orders and returns. Use this to see information such as the received and invoiced quantity for each line, and related invoices and credit notes.
You can:
Open a related workspace with the content already filtered. For example, if you want to view the order details for a specific line, select the line (using the check box) and choose Actions > Purchase Document Enquiry. The Purchase Document Enquiry workspace opens with the list of orders filtered for the selected line.
Note: This option is not available if you have more than one row selected.
Open: Purchase Order Processing > Enquiries > Purchase Invoices and Credits.
Use this to see information about purchase invoice and credit note lines such as the quantity, total value and associated purchase order or return lines.
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Open a related workspace with the content already filtered. For example, if you want to view the order line associated with the a specific invoice line, select the invoice line (using the check box) and choose Actions > Purchase Document Enquiry. The Purchase Document Enquiry workspace opens with the list of orders filtered for the selected line.
Note: This option is not available if you have more than one row selected.
Open: Purchase Order Processing > Enquiries > Purchase GRNs.
Use this to see information about your goods received notes (GRNThe Goods Received Number (GRN) is assigned to a record when goods or services are confirmed as received. It is also applied to a record when goods are returned to a supplier during the Confirmed Goods Returned activity.s) and associated orders and returns.
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Open a related workspace with the content already filtered. For example, if you want to view the supplier details for a GRN, select the GRN (using the check box) and choose Actions > Supplier Account Enquiry. The Supplier Account Enquiry workspace opens with the list of lines filtered for the selected order.
Note: This option is not available if you have more than one row selected.
Open: Purchase Order Processing > Enquiries > Purchase Document Status.
Use this to see information about outstanding purchase orders and associated order lines. Use this to see the status of your outstanding purchase orders.
The Value Status Pipeline indicator. shows the percentage of the order that has been received and invoiced. If a purchase document has a zero value, no Value Status Pipeline is displayed.
Purchase Order Value Status Pipeline
The indicator is divided into 2 parts: Received Status and Invoiced Status.
Each section is shaded in a different colour. The amount of shading in each section represents the percentage of the total value of the order, which has reached that stage. A line represents 0% and a fully coloured box represents 100%.
You can see the exact percentage for each stage of the order from a tooltip.
The stages of the purchase orders are shown below:
Received Status | Colour |
---|---|
% On order | |
% Received | |
Invoiced Status | Colour |
% Not Invoiced | |
% Invoiced but disputed | |
% Invoiced |
If the Received section and the Invoiced section are filled to 100%, the Purchase Order is complete.
The stages of the purchase returns are shown below:
Returned Status | Colour |
---|---|
% Returns entered | |
% Despatched | |
Credited Status | Colour |
% Not Credited | |
% Credited but disputed | |
% Credited |
If the Despatched section and the Credited section are filled to 100%, the Purchase Return is complete.
You can:
Open: Purchase Order Processing > Order Processing > My Unauthorised Purchase Orders.
Use this to see details of purchase orders that require authorisation and where you are the order taker or order originator.
You can:
Open: Purchase Order Processing > Order Processing > Purchase Order Authorisation.
Use this to see details of purchase orders that require authorisation and orders that have been authorised. You can use this workspace to authorise your orders.
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Run related reports.
Open: Purchase Order Processing > Order Processing > Purchase Order Notification.
Use this to see information about notification messages for all purchase orders that require authorisation. Use this to view the details of the notifications messages and see who the messages have been sent to. It does not include purchase orders that have been authorised.
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Open: Workspaces drop-down list.
Use this to see a list of your purchase orders and returns.
You can:
Open a related workspace with the content already filtered. For example, if you want to view the lines for a specific order, select the order (using the check box) and choose Actions > Purchase Document Line Enquiry. The Purchase Document Line Enquiry workspace opens with the list of lines filtered for the selected order.
Note: This option is not available if you have more than one row selected.
Run related reports.
Open: Purchase Order Processing > Enquiries > Archived Purchase Documents.
Use this to see information about your archived orders and returns.
Purchase orders and returns can be archived using the POP > Utilities > File Maintenance > Archive POP Orders and Returns option.
Note: Archiving is only available for On Premise deployments.
You can:
Open a related workspace with the content already filtered. For example, if you want to view the lines for a specific order, select the order (using the check box) and choose Actions > Archived Purchase Document Line Enquiry. The Archived Purchase Document Line Enquiry workspace opens with the list of lines filtered for the selected order.
Note: This option is not available if you have more than one row selected.
Open: Purchase Order Processing > Enquiries > Archived Purchase Document Lines.
Use this to see information about your archived purchase orders and return lines. Use this to see information such as the received and invoiced quantity for each line, and related invoices and credit notes.
Purchase orders and returns can be archived using the POP > Utilities > File Maintenance > Archive POP Orders and Returns option.
Note: Archiving is only available for On Premise deployments.
You can:
Open a related workspace with the content already filtered. For example, if you want to view the order details for a specific line, select the line (using the check box) and choose Actions > Archived Purchase Document Enquiry. The Archived Purchase Document Enquiry workspace opens with the list of orders filtered for the selected line.
Note: This option is not available if you have more than one row selected.
Open: Purchase Order Processing > Enquiries > Archived Purchase Invoices and Credits.
Use this to see information about archived purchase invoice and credit note lines such as the quantity, total value and associated purchase order or return lines.
Purchase orders and returns can be archived using the POP > Utilities > File Maintenance > Archive POP Orders and Returns option.
Note: Archiving is only available for On Premise deployments.
You can:
Open a related workspace with the content already filtered. For example, if you want to view the order details for a specific invoice line, select the invoice line (using the check box) and choose Actions > Archived Purchase Document Enquiry. The Archived Purchase Document Enquiry workspace opens with the list of orders filtered for the selected line.
Note: This option is not available if you have more than one row selected.
Run related reports.
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Reference
Archive sales and purchase orders and returns
Purchase order authorisation overview