How Requisitions interfaces with other applications
This section explains how the Requisitions application interfaces with other Lawson applications.
Currency
The Requisitions application uses currency definitions from the Lawson Currency application. These are used for transactions posted to Lawson Inventory Control and Lawson Purchase Order.
General Ledger
The Requisitions application uses accounting units and accounts within the Lawson General Ledger chart of accounts for all interfacing procurement functions. In addition, the Requisitions application uses the General Ledger Company structure. If you have GL commitment set up, additional edits are performed against the General Ledger and passed back to Requisitions.
Budgeting
If you have budget editing set up, edits are performed against your budgets and the edits are passed back to Requisitions if there are discrepancies.
Accounts Payable
The Requisitions application receives vendor information and cost information from the Lawson Accounts Payable application. Requisitions sends order requests to the Purchase Order application. Purchase Order receives invoice and payment information from Accounts Payable.
Inventory Control
The Requisitions application receives item information from the Inventory Control application. The item numbers and descriptions used by Requisitions are stored in the Inventory Control application. Transactions from Requisitions affect stock-on-hand in Inventory Control.
Tax
The Requisitions application sends an item's tax information to the Purchase Order application when a purchase order is created. Purchase Order receives tax information from the Lawson Tax application to calculate tax on purchase orders.
Project Accounting
The Requisitions application sends activity information to the Lawson Project Accounting application. You can associate requests for goods and services with activities allowing the use of Activity Based Costing (ABC) and Activity Based Management (ABM). If you have activities commitment set up, additional edits are done against Project Accounting and passed back to Requisitions.
Invoice Matching
The Requisitions application sends order requests to the Purchase Order application. Purchase Order sends purchasing 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.
Purchase Order
The Requisitions application sends order requests for goods or services to the Purchase Order application. Purchase orders can then be created automatically to fill the order. The Requisitions application receives item costs from price agreements defined in Purchase Order.
Warehouse
The Requisitions application sends requests for inventory items to the Lawson Warehouse application. Items are picked, packed, shipped and delivered from the Warehouse application. Requisitions receives status information, such as shipped quantity, from Warehouse.
Strategic Ledger
The Requisitions application uses User Analysis structure defined in Lawson Strategic Ledger. Requisitions sends transactions to the data marts defined in Strategic Ledger.
Production Order
The Requisitions application sends demand for finished goods to the Lawson Production Order application.
Asset Management
Asset Template - When Asset Template or Asset Number (you can enter one but not both) are populated coming from requisition, the Asset Management application assigns asset number automatically.
Infor Process Automation
The Requisitions application sends requests for service to the Infor Process Automation application. The predefined services for the Requisitions application are the Requisitions Approval service and the Rush Item Processing service. A process will need to be written to support the rush item processing service.