Procurement Punchout

Procurement Punchout works with Infor Lawson Requisition Center to allow end users to browse Punchout-enabled vendor web sites, select from approved products and pre-negotiated prices, create requisitions, route for approval, and generate purchase orders. Procurement Punchout eliminates the need to load and maintain item master data for non-inventoried or highly configured products.

Procurement Punchout enables users of Infor Lawson Requisition Center to requisition supplies from specific vendor's web sites. Within Procurement Punchout, a vendor's web site is represented by an icon on the Infor Lawson Requisition Center home page. When the user clicks the vendor icon (called "punching out") that vendor's web site catalog appears in a separate browser session. From this vendor-managed catalog, Infor Lawson Requisition Center users can choose items and return them to the Infor Lawson Requisition Center application. By separate agreement between the customer and the vendor, the vendor will often display the customer's special cost information for catalog items and limit the catalog items that are displayed.

When users have finished shopping and have checked out from the vendor web site, the selected items and their costs are returned to the Infor Lawson Requisition Center application where a requisition is created. From this point forward, your existing procurement processes will handle the Punchout requisition just as any other requisition is being handled in your organization. A purchase order can be created from the requisition.

Depending upon vendor capabilities and your unique business requirements, any of the usual formats for purchase orders can be used to send the order to the vendor. Formats are paper/FAX, email, X.12 EDI, or a cXML OrderRequest. One vendor may prefer cXML format through HTTPS, another may prefer X.12 and FTP.

Any purchase orders created from within Lawson as EDI or cXML (Commerce XML) can be sent to the vendor through the Lawson EDI for Supply Chain application or through Lawson ProcessFlow and Lawson PODispatcher flow, respectively.