Purchase Orders for warehouse fulfillment/replenishment can be created automatically by using the PO Recommendations report and the Requisition Management Program as described in the prior section. This is the recommended method to process these types of purchase orders.
Purchase Orders for warehouse fulfillment/replenishment can also be created manually by entering purchase orders into the system using the Purchase Order Entry program.
When an item is being fulfilled from a warehouse, the quantity to order is normally determined based on the current inventory quantities for each item and the reorder information that has been specified for the item. This information is automatically used by the Purchasing Recommendations report when suggesting the recommended quantity to order and when creating requisitions for each item. Therefore, it makes sense to use the report to create requisitions vs. printing the report and manually entering purchase orders based on the report output.
If the quantity, vendor or price, suggested by the system for each item (as printed on the report or in the requisition lines created by the report) is incorrect, this information can be changed at the requisition level in the Requisition Management program. Alternatively, the information used by the report can be changed by updating the appropriate inventory, QVL or other database record so that the correct information is used the next time that the report is run.