Effects of the Purchase Order application in Billing
You can use the Purchase Order application to order items from a vendor. You can receive the items into your inventory or have the vendor ship the items directly to your customer. These concepts explain aspects of Purchase Order setup that affect the Purchase Order application.
Procurement groups
The procurement group contains setup values for companies. You can assign each company to only one procurement group. You can assign multiple companies to the same procurement group. The procurement group assignment for a company makes all vendors and buyers assigned to the procurement group available for that company, and any other companies assigned to the same procurement group. To use a contract for more than one company, you can establish contracts for a procurement group.
Comment types
You can define comment types to group item comments into user-defined types .Examples include comment type S might represent shipping instructions, comment type A might represent assembly instructions, and so on.
Planning your Purchase Order setup for Billing
You can use the Lawson Purchase Order application to create and issue purchase orders, and track your receiving process. Iif you create purchase orders to order customer items, then you must set up Purchase Order.
This checklist provides an overview for setting up Purchase Order. See the Purchase Order User Guide.
