The Create Purchase Order (PO40) is used to create, modify and review Purchase Orders (POs).

Enterprise offers three methods to create POs:

• You can manually create POs using PO40.

• You can automatically generate POs using Maintain Proposed POs (PO34) which is based on calculations from Generate Preliminary POs (PO23).

• You can use Enter Orders and Quotes (OE30) to automatically create a Purchase Order(s) as a by-product of entering the Sales Order. These POs are called Dedicated POs because they are dedicated to the originating Sales Order. Stock allocation and Back Order releasing is handled so that the packing list is generated when stock is received for Back Orders on the Dedicated Purchase Order and not before. Note: deleting the Dedicated PO in PO40 automatically removes all of the cross-references to the Sales Order and causes the Sales Order to be handled through the normal Sales Order release process.
  • For an overview on Generating Dedicated POs, click here.

For more information on the folders in PO40, click on the links above.