How Purchase Order interfaces with other applications
This section explains how the Lawson Purchase Order application interfaces with other Lawson applications.
General Ledger
The Purchase Order application uses accounts within the Lawson General Ledger chart of accounts for all posting functions. Purchase Order sends "received, not invoiced" transactions to the General Ledger. If you have general ledger commitments set up, additional edits are performed against the General Ledger and passed back to the Purchase Order application.
Tax
The Purchase Order application receives tax information from the Lawson Tax application in order to calculate tax on purchase orders.
Accounts Payable
The Purchase Order application receives vendor information from the Lawson Accounts Payable application. A purchase order is sent to a vendor, as is the payment against the invoice for the ordered goods.
Currency
The Purchase Order application uses currency definitions from the Lawson Currency application. These are used for transactions posted to Lawson Inventory Control and Lawson Purchase Order.
Budgeting
If you have budget editing set up, edits are performed against your budgets and budget edits are passed back to the Purchase Order application if discrepancies exist.
Invoice Matching
The Purchase Order application sends purchase and receiving information to the Lawson Invoice Matching application. Invoice Matching compares order receipt information from Purchase Order with invoice information from Accounts Payable to automate payment and posting processes.
Inventory Control
The Purchase Order application receives reorder information from the Lawson Inventory Control application and creates purchase orders. Upon order receipt and adjustment, the Purchase Order application sends receipt transactions to Inventory Control to update inventory balances.
Requisitions
The Purchase Order application receives order requests for goods or services from the Lawson Requisitions application. Purchase orders can then be created automatically to fill the requisition.
Order Entry
The Purchase Order application receives customer order information from the Lawson Order Entry application. Purchase orders can then be created automatically to fill the order.
Asset Management
The Purchase Order application sends asset information to the Lawson Asset Management application so that you can track the procurement of capital goods.
Project Accounting
The Purchase Order application sends activity information to the Project Accounting application. You can then associate goods and services on purchase orders with activities enabling the use of Activity Based Costing (ABC) and Activity Based Management (ABM). If you have activities commitments set up, additional edits are done against Project Accounting and passed back to Requisitions.
Terms
The Purchase Order application receives terms codes which determine due dates, discount dates and discount amounts on purchase orders created in Purchase Order.
Strategic Ledger
The Purchase Order application uses User Analysis structure defined in Lawson Strategic Ledger. Purchase Order sends transactions to the data marts defined in Strategic Ledger.
Production Order
The Purchase Order application sends demand for finished goods to the Production Order application.
Non-Lawson General Ledger
The Purchase Order application lets you send journal entries to a non-Lawson general ledger through a custom interface. In addition, Purchase Order is also able to receive purchasing records from non-Lawson applications through a custom interface.