Purchase Orders (tdpur4100m000)

Use this session to view, enter, and maintain purchase order headers.

You can start this session in the details mode by clicking:

  • Details on the appropriate menu of the Purchase Orders (tdpur4100m000) overview session.
  • Purchase Order Details on the File menu of the Purchase Order - Lines (tdpur4100m900) session.

When you double-click a record, or click the New button, the Purchase Order - Lines (tdpur4100m900) session is started.

Note

This session can be displayed in different views. When you change the view, LN changes the session's title bar, column sequence, and the number of view fields. If you click Sort by on the View menu, you can choose to sort the purchase orders by:

  • Purchase Order.
  • Buy-from BP.
  • Buy-from BP Order, Purchase Order.
  • Purchase Office, Purchase Order.
  • Buyer.

 

Buy-from BP
The business partner from whom you order goods or services; this usually represents a supplier's sales department. The definition includes the default price and discount agreements, purchase-order defaults, delivery terms, and the related ship-from and invoice-from business partner.
Ship-from BP
The business partner that ships the ordered goods to your organization. This usually represents a supplier's distribution center or warehouse. The definition includes the default warehouse at which you want to receive the goods and if you want to inspect the goods, the carrier that takes care of the transport, and the related buy-from business partner.
Purchase Office
A department in your organization that is responsible for buying the materials and services needed by your organization. You assign number groups to the purchase office.

In this way, you can assign serial numbers to:

  • Purchase orders
  • Purchase schedules
  • Requests for quotations
  • Purchase contracts

You can also define a default warehouse where goods ordered by the purchase office must be delivered.

Financial Department
The department that determines the financial company to which the transaction must be posted and which is responsible for the tax declaration in the tax country of the order. The financial company's home country must be the tax country of the order. The financial department is an accounting office of the financial company.

If the financial company of the administrative department has a tax number in the tax country of the order, the financial department is the same department as the administrative department.

The financial department enables you to process financial transactions for an order in another financial company than the financial company of the purchase office.

Note
  • The financial department must have a tax ID in the tax country.
  • This field is only visible if the Use Tax Numbers of other Financial Companies check box is selected in the Tax Parameters (tctax0100m000) session.

Default value

  • This field is defaulted from the Purchase Office field.
  • This field retrieves the default financial data of its financial company for the purchase order.
Order Type
The order type determines which sessions are part of the order procedure and how and in which sequence this procedure is executed.

Default value

The default value is the order type assigned to the supplier in the Buy-from Business Partners (tccom4520m000) session. If no order type is assigned to the supplier, the default is the order type assigned to the logon code in the User Profiles (tdpur0143m000) session.

Note
  • If the purchase order type is a return order, LN cannot create back orders for these orders.
  • If the warehouse is WMS controlled, and the Collect Orders check box is cleared for the warehouse in the WMS Integration Parameters (whwmd2105m000) session, you cannot enter a collect order type in this field.
Planned Receipt Date
The planned date on which the items on the order/schedule line are planned to be received. The planned receipt date cannot occur before the order date/schedule generation date.
Purchase Order
The number that identifies the purchase order.
Purchase Order Origin
Confirmed Receipt Date
The receipt date for the items, which is confirmed by the buy-from business partner or confirmed to the sold-to business partner.

This date is used for several purposes:

  • As one of the bases by which the vendor rating is determined.
  • As the default value for the confirmed receipt date on the order lines.
  • As the reference date for the printing of reminders.
Order Date
The date on which the order is manually entered into the system or is automatically generated.
Note
  • If the purchase order was created manually, this date is the default order date for each order line.
  • For a purchase order originating from Enterprise Planning, the default order date for each order line is the planned delivery date minus the lead time.
Status
This field shows the status of the purchase order header.
Log Order History
If this check box is selected, history must be logged for the purchase order.
Note

This field cannot be changed during the life cycle of the purchase order.

Default value

This field is defaulted from the Log Order History parameter in the Purchase Order Parameters (tdpur0100m400) session at the moment the purchase order is created. If the parameter changes after the purchase order creation date, this field is not changed.

Start Logging History at
The moment the purchase order history is logged.
Note

This field cannot be changed during the life cycle of the purchase order.

Default value

This field is defaulted from the Start Logging History at parameter in the Purchase Order Parameters (tdpur0100m400) session at the moment the purchase order is created. If the parameter changes after the purchase order creation date, this field is not changed.

EDI Message Generated
If this check box is selected, an EDI message is generated for the purchase order.
Warehouse
A place for storing goods. For each warehouse, you can enter address data and data relating to its type.
Buyer
The employee of your company who is the contact to the concerned buy-from business partner. The buyer is also known as the purchasing agent.
Terms of Delivery
The agreements with the business partner, concerning the way the goods are delivered. Relevant information is printed on various order documents.

Related topics

Title Passage
The point at which the legal ownership changes. At this point, the risk passes from the seller to the buyer.

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Buy-from BP Order
The number the buy-from business partner assigned to the order.
Original Document Type
The document type that is linked to the original document if the purchase order type is a return order.
Reference A
The first extra reference by which the order or request for quotation can be identified. This reference is printed on various order documents and lists.
Original Document No
The original document number for the return order.
Note

If the fields in the Returns group box are filled and you click Copy from Orig Doc on the appropriate menu, dependent on the Original Document Type, a session starts from which you can select the lines of the original document to be copied to the current order. As a result, a link is created between the original order line and the return order line.

Reference B
The second extra reference field that you can fill with extra information. This reference is printed on the order documents and lists.
Return Reason
The reason why the delivered goods are rejected and returned.
Contract
A customer-oriented contract, agreed upon by buy-from business partners and sold-to business partners that is used to record specific agreements for specific projects. A special contract can also be a promotional contract.

For special contracts, an overlap in effectivity periods is allowed for the same item/business partner combination.

After the contract number is entered, the order header data is loaded with the default values in the header of the concerning contract. Specific addresses are also copied. In this way, the contract terms are adopted on the order level, allowing adoption of the contract price and/or contract discount as well.

The purpose of this field is to serve as a default for the purchase order line. The actions LN takes to link a contract to the contract line, depends on the value of the Several Special Contracts Allowed by Purchase Order check box in the Purchase Contract Parameters (tdpur0100m300) session.

Header Text
If this check box is selected, a header text is present.
Footer Text
If this check box is selected, a footer text is present.
For Commingling
If this check box is selected, LN generates a purchase order that is waiting for commingling. You must commingle and approve the commingled purchase order.
Note
  • This check box is only available if the Commingling for check box is selected for the relevant origin in the Purchase Order Parameters (tdpur0100m400) session.
  • This check box can only be selected if the purchase order has the Created status.
Code
The code of the contact of the buy-from business partner.
Code
The buy-from business partner's address code.
Full Name
The contact's full name.
Phone
The contact's telephone number.
Address
City
The city in which the buy-from business partner is established.
Line of Business
The line of business under which the buy from business partner is grouped.
Area
A region used to group business partners, customers, suppliers and employees on a geographical basis.

Default value

The default area that is assigned to the buy-from business partner is derived from the Buy-from Business Partners (tccom4520m000) session.

Order Discount
A discount percentage or amount to be subtracted from the total order amount.
Note

For cost items and service items, no order header discount is calculated.

Default value

The default order discount is derived from the Buy-from Business Partners (tccom4520m000) session.

Purchase Price List
List of default prices and discounts for customers and suppliers. You can link price lists to items and item groups, and to sold-to and buy-from business partners.
BP Prices/Discounts
A business partner can be selected as 'parent'. This means that the prices and discounts that are specified for this business partner are the input for the relevant order.

If a parent business partner is defined on an order, LN first looks for price and discount data as defined for the parent business partner.

If price or discount information is not specified for the parent, or if no parent is specified, LN looks for the price and discount data that is specified for the business partner on the order.

BP Texts
A business partner can be selected as parent. This means that the texts that are specified for this business partner are the input for the concerning order.

If a parent business partner is defined on an order, LN first looks for texts as defined for the parent business partner.

If texts are not specified for the parent or if no parent is specified, LN looks for the texts that are specified for the business partner on the order.

Planner
The employee or department responsible for planning the production, purchase and distribution of items. The planner takes into account the inventory levels, availability of materials, and capacities of resources, and reacts on signals such as rescheduling messages that LN generates.
Address
The address code of the ship-from business partner.
Receipt Address
The actual address where goods must be delivered that you recorded for each supplier. In practice, this can be one of your warehouses.
Route
Line of travel from your warehouses to the ship-to or ship-from business partner's warehouse and vice versa. Use routes to group business partners that are located in the same area or along one convenient route.

You can arrange addresses by routes to print picking lists and shipping notes sorted by route.

Carrier
An organization that provides transport services. You can link a default carrier to both ship-to and ship-from business partners. In addition, you can print sales and purchase orders on a packing list, sorted by carrier.

For ordering and invoicing, you must define a carrier as a business partner.

Business Partner
The business partner that sends invoices to your organization. This usually represents a supplier's accounts receivable department. The definition includes the default currency and exchange rate, invoicing method and frequency, information about your organization's credit limit, the terms and method of payment, and the related pay-to business partner.
Address
Order Amount
The total order amount. This is a cumulative value of all the purchase line amounts after discounts are deducted.
Currency
The monetary unit in which the purchase price is expressed.

Default value

The default value is the currency that is assigned to the buy-from business partner in the Buy-from Business Partners (tccom4520m000) session.

Note

You cannot change the currency if order lines are added to the purchase order.

Exchange Rate Type
A way to group currency exchange rates. You can assign different currency exchange rates to different invoice-to business partners and/or to different types of transactions (purchase, sales, and so on).
Rate Determiner
The method to decide which date is used to determine the exchange rates.

During the composing process, all amounts in foreign currencies are converted to the home currency, based on the determined exchange rate.

Note

The options you have depend on a company's currency system, which you can define in the Currency Type field of the Companies (tcemm1170m000) session.

Use Purchase Rates for Receipts
If this check box is selected, LN uses purchase rate data for the debit side of the purchase order/receipt transaction.
Note

The value of this field is retrieved from the corresponding field in the Buy-from Business Partners (tccom4120s000) session.

Purchase Rate
The factor by which purchase transaction amounts in a foreign currency are multiplied to produce the amounts in the home currency.

Default value

The default purchase rate is derived from the Currency Rates (tcmcs0108m000) session. You can adjust the purchase rate with certain restrictions.

The purchase rate is assigned to the purchase order at the moment it is created or generated, in order to use the same rate throughout the order procedure.

You cannot modify this field in any of the following situations:

  • Order lines have been entered for this order.
  • The order currency is the same as the home currency.
  • The Rate Determiner field has the value Document Date, Receipt Date, or Expected Cash Date.
Rate Factor
The factor by which the amount in the transaction currency or the invoice currency is divided before LN converts it to a home currency. A rate factor is often used for currencies that have a relatively low price, for example, Korean Won.

Default value

The default rate factor is the factor that is assigned to the currency. You can adjust the rate factor, depending on a number of conditions (see the Rate/Rate Factor field).

Note

If a purchase order is created or generated, the rate factor that is assigned to the currency is also assigned to the purchase order. So the same rate factor is effective throughout the procedure.

Rate/Rate Factor
The conversion between the home currency and the currency that is used on the purchase order.
Self Billed Invoice
If this check box is selected, self-billing is used for purchase orders that you issue to the buy-from business partner.

Default value

This field is defaulted from the Self-Billing field in the Buy-from Business Partners (tccom4120s000) session.

If this check box is cleared, the purchase invoice is created by the buy-from business partner and received by your company.

Related topics

Invoice after
You can indicate for a purchase order when a self billed invoice can be generated.
  • Inspection
    Self bills can be generated after the goods are inspected and approved.
  • Receipt
    Self bills can be generated after the goods are received or consumed.

Default value

This field is defaulted from the Invoice After field in the Buy-from Business Partners (tccom4120s000) session.

Related topics

Self-Billing Method
If the Self Billed Invoice check box is selected, use this field to select a self-billing method, which determines how self-billing is carried out.

The self-billing method determines, among other things, the criteria for composing the invoice, the invoicing interval, the output medium, and so on.

Related topics

Tax Classification
An attribute of order headers and order lines that you can use to define tax exceptions for the transaction. LN retrieves the default tax classification from the invoice-from and invoice-to business partners.

For example, you can use the tax classification to indicate:

  • That payments to an invoice-from business partner are subject to withholding tax and social contributions
  • To group business partners that have the same tax aspects for your company, for example, subcontractors, or agents
  • That the tax must be paid in a country other than the sales office or service office's home country

Default value

This field is defaulted from the Business Partner Tax Classification field of the Invoice-from Business Partners (tccom4122s000) session.

Landed Costs Classification
Attribute that allows users to link a logistic transaction to a specific landed costs set, overruling the landed costs settings of that transaction. If required, users can specify a landed costs classification and use this classification on the transaction.
Invoice External BP
If this check box is selected, the external business partner is invoiced for the freight costs you make.
Note
  • If this check box is selected, landed cost lines for which the Calculation Method is By Freight Management cannot be linked to the purchase order.
  • The invoice-to business partner is the same as the invoice-from business partner if the invoice-from business partner has the invoice-to role. Otherwise the invoice-to business partner is determined from the parent business partner.
  • This field is defaulted from the Invoice BP for Freight field in the Buy-from Business Partners (tccom4120s000) session.
Freight Costs Based On
A company can invoice freight rates to the external business partner, based on Freight Costs, Client Rates, and Freight Costs (Update Allowed).
Note

This field is defaulted from the Invoice for Freight Based On field in the Invoice-to Business Partners (tccom4112s000) session.

Business Partner
The business partner to which you pay invoices. This usually represents a supplier's accounts receivable department. The definition includes the default currency and exchange rate, the supplier's bank relation, the number of days within which you must pay the invoices, and if the business partner uses a factoring company.
Address
The pay-to business partner's address code.
Contact
The pay-to business partner's contact code.
Terms of Payment
Agreements about the way in which invoices are paid.

The payment terms include:

  • The period within which invoices must be paid.
  • The discount granted if an invoice is paid within a given period

The payment terms allow you to calculate:

  • The date on which the payment is due
  • The date on which the discount periods expire
  • The discount amount
Late Payment Surcharge
The percentage that is charged over the goods amount or over rendered services that the recipient of the invoice must pay if the invoice is not paid within a specified period.
Remittance Agreement
A subcontracting document that contains agreements about how the payment for a project will take place. For example, the remittance agreement states that part of the invoice amount must be paid to the subcontractor's industrial assurance board (IAB) and to the tax authorities.
Acknowledgement
The code of the acknowledgement.
Change Order Sequence
A number that is used to assign the occurrence of changes to a purchase order or a sales order.
Change Reason
A means used to identify the reason for a change to a sales or purchase order, for example, a contract limitation, feasibility issue, or transportation limitation. A change reason is identified by a code.
Change Type
A user-defined code that can be used to identify types of changes made to orders, such as a price change or quantity increase.
Supplier Change Order Sequence

 

Details
Starts the current session in the details mode.
Order Lines
Starts the Purchase Order - Lines (tdpur4101m000) session in the overview mode.
Lines to be Released
Receipts
Activities by Order Type
Change Order Sequence Numbers
Supplier Change Order Sequence Numbers
Landed Cost Lines
Landed Costs by Purchase Order
Starts the Landed Cost Lines by Purchase Order (tclct2100m300) session, in which you can view all landed costs that are linked to a selected purchase order.
Subcontracting Sales Order
This command is only used in the system of the subcontractor. If the current purchase order is generated for receiving a manufacturer's materials, a subcontractor can click this command to start the subcontracting sales order that is linked to the current purchase order in the Sales Order - Lines (tdsls4100m900) session.
Copy from Original Document
Creates a link between the return order and the original document.

Dependent on the Original Document Type, LN starts a session from which you can select the lines of the original document to be copied to the current order.

Order - Lines - Synchronization
Recalculate Price/Discounts Entire Order
Recalculate Landed Costs
Commingle...
Approve
Approves the particular purchase order.

If the For Commingling check box is selected, you must commingle the purchase order before you can approve it.

Approve

If the For Commingling check box is selected, you must commingle the purchase order before you can approve it.

Generate Freight Orders
Release to Warehousing
Cancel
Cancels the purchase order header.
Delete...
Lines Overview
Receipt Overview
Group by Manual Activity
Order History
Any State
Displays all orders.
Hide Receipts and Payments
Hides all orders with the Warehousing Receipt and Purchase Payment origins.
Only Unexpected Receipts
Only displays orders with the Warehousing Receipt origin.
Only Payment Orders
Only displays orders with the Purchase Payment origin.
Open Orders
Displays all orders for which no receipts are booked yet.
Orders for Printing
Displays all orders that are waiting to be printed in the Print Purchase Orders (tdpur4401m000) session.
Orders for Release to Warehousing
Displays all orders that are waiting to be released to Warehousing in the Release Purchase Orders to Warehousing (tdpur4246m000) session.
Orders for Manual Activities
Displays all orders that are waiting for a manual activity, which you can execute in the Purchase Orders - by Manual Activities (tdpur4501m150) session.
Orders for Processing
Displays the orders that are waiting to be closed in the Process Purchase Orders (tdpur4223m000) session.
Pegging
Tax Numbers by Business Partner