Management Suite Modules
Purchase Orders
With the Purchase Orders module, businesses can better control the pricing, ordering, and delivery of goods.
Because it is fully integrated with Inventory, Accounts Payable, Job Costing, Service Management, and Equipment Costing, Purchase Orders maintains vendor and item files, prints POs, allows changes and additions, updates project “committed costs,” and provides numerous management reports and inquiries. Project managers, purchasing agents, controllers, and service managers value the many tools provided to better minimize costs and maximize the effectiveness of their purchasing-related activities.
Using Purchase Orders, you’ll appreciate these benefits:
- Purchase order numbering systems accommodate a variety of control mechanisms: numerical sequence, sequenced by job, or manual entry from pre-printed vouchers.
- Fast, on-screen Purchase Order inquiries and reports may be organized by PO number, vendor, item, job, equipment ID, or service work order.
- Single purchase orders may be split among several jobs, with identical items consolidated on the printed purchase order for maximum price breaks. Both stock and non-stock items may be combined on a single Purchase Order.
- Automatic functionalities allow user to create, print, fax, and e-mail purchase orders right from the system.
- Use the optional Buyout module to electronically pull in the materials list for a new project, put items out for quote if necessary, and automatically create the purchase orders of materials when needed for the job.
- Purchase Order entry captures vendor information, date required, terms, vendor messages, shipping destinations, quantities and prices for all items ordered, receiving notes, and accounting information.
- Item usage coding (for stock, a job, service work, or an equipment repair) is entered by the purchasing agent, eliminating confusion and delays at receiving and invoicing time.
- For each item ordered, the system displays a history of prior purchases detailing vendors, jobs, purchase order numbers and dates, quantities, and prices.
- Item standard costs and prices may be automatically updated from materials pricing services via optional PricingService Link module.
- “Committed costs” on jobs are updated automatically upon creation and acceptance of purchase orders.
- “Lump sum” purchase orders accommodate orders keyed to a bill of materials or material schedule at a quoted lump sum price.
- Purchase order “Change Orders” capture additions, subtractions, and other changes to an existing purchase order.
- Automatic inter-company features support centralized control of purchasing for multiple companies.
- User-defined fields and more.

