Effects of the Purchase Order application to Billing
The Purchase Order application lets you 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 Billing application.
About procurement groups
Each company is assigned to one and only one procurement group. Multiple companies can be assigned 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. Also, contracts can be established for a procurement group so that the contract can be used by more than one company.
The procurement group contains setup values for companies. Multiple companies can be assigned to one procurement group. Each company though is assigned to only one procurement group.
About comment types
You can define comment types to group item comments into user-defined types. For example, comment type S might represent shipping instructions, while comment type A might represent assembly instructions.
Planning your Purchase Order setup for Billing
The Lawson Purchase Order application lets you create and issue purchase orders and track your receiving process. You must set up Purchase Order if you create purchase orders to order customer items.
This checklist provides an overview for setting up Purchase Order. For more information, see the Purchase Order User Guide.
