Procurement Punchout

Procurement Punchout works with Infor Lawson Requisition Center to enable end users to:
  • browse Punchout-enabled vendor websites
  • select from approved products and pre-negotiated prices
  • create requisitions
  • route for approval
  • generate purchase orders
Procurement Punchout does not require to load and to 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 websites. Within Procurement Punchout, a vendor's website 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 website catalog displays in a separate browser session. From this vendor-managed catalog, Infor Lawson Requisition Center users can select items and return them to the Infor Lawson Requisition Center application. By separate agreement between the customer and the vendor, the vendor will often show 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 website, 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, you can use any of the usual formats for purchase orders to send the order to the vendor. These are the available purchase order formats:
  • paper/FAX
  • email
  • X.12 EDI
  • cXML OrderRequest
One vendor may prefer cXML format through HTTPS, while another may prefer X.12 and FTP.
Note: Not all vendors support all formats and protocols.

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