Purchasing

The Purchasing module facilitates the creation, maintenance and analysis of purchasing activities within your organization, such as the management of suppliers, and the procurement of goods and services.

The module is defined and administered using Purchase Business Setup (PBS).

Purchase transactions pass through a series of stages which are set up in the Purchase Types (PTS) in your system.

In the Item Master (ITM) you can link suppliers with the items they supply and record associated information such as unit of purchase, lead time for individual items, contact details and codes for traceability.

Note: All reference data functions such as Purchase Business Setup (PBS), Purchase Type (PTS) and the Item Master (ITM) are detailed in the SunSystems Administrator Guide.

The Receipt Notes function enables you to match items ordered against those received.

Note: Receipt Notes processing is only available if you are serialized for the Inventory module.

You can generate inquiries and reports for effective purchase management, for example, analyzing late purchase orders, outstanding purchase orders for a particular item and purchase order lines awaiting receipt note processing.