A department in your organization that is responsible for buying the materials and services required by your organization. You assign number groups to the purchase office.
Purchase Releases (tdpur3620m000)Use this session to view and maintain purchase releases and lines. This session enables buyers to view only the purchase releases associated to them and to display the purchase release lines that require attention. Consequently, buyers can execute the appropriate actions on the lines, such as sending release lines that are yet to be sent to the supplier. Filters You can use these filters to display the appropriate selection of releases and release lines:
Tabs This session includes these tabs:
General Purchase Office A department in your organization that is responsible for buying the materials and services required by your organization. You assign number groups to the purchase office. 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. Buy-from Business Partner 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. Item The raw materials, subassemblies, finished products, and tools that can be purchased, stored, manufactured, and sold. An item can also represent a set of items handled as one kit, or which exist in multiple product variants. You can also define nonphysical items, which are not retained in inventory but can be used to post costs or to invoice services to customers. The examples of nonphysical items:
Item Code System An external, alternate way of coding items. Coding systems can be general standard systems (such as EAN) or systems that are dependent on a specific business partner. Supplier Item The item code that is used by the supplier for the item specified in the Item field. You can specify the supplier's item code during order entry, after which the internally used item code is displayed. Release Lines The total number of purchase release lines that are displayed, based on the General filter. Status Created If this check box is selected, release lines with the status Created and the count of the lines are displayed. Click Created to activate or deactivate this filter. Scheduled If this check box is selected, release lines with the status Scheduled and the count of the lines are displayed. Click Scheduled to activate or deactivate this filter. Sent If this check box is selected, release lines with the status Sent and the count of the lines are displayed. Click Sent to activate or deactivate this filter. Issue Date Past Due If this check box is selected, unsent release lines with the issue date in the past and the count of the lines are displayed. Click Past Due to activate or deactivate this filter. Due Today If this check box is selected, unsent release lines with the issue date scheduled for today and the count of the lines are displayed. Click Due Today to activate or deactivate this filter. Due 1-7 Days If this check box is selected, unsent release lines with the issue date in the next seven days and the count of the lines are displayed. Click Due 1-7 Days to activate or deactivate this filter. Due Beyond 7 Days If this check box is selected, unsent release lines with the issue date after the next seven days and the count of the lines are displayed. Click Due Beyond 7 Days to activate or deactivate this filter.
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