Basics
If you are new to Purchasing, you may find it helpful to review information about how it relates to other applications and to the approval process.
- Related Topics:
- Requisitions and Requests for Price Quotes
Use the Purchasing application to create purchase requisitions and requests for price quotes, which help you decide whether items and services are necessary and how much they cost before you send a purchase order for those items or services. - Supporting Documents in Purchasing
You can upload and associate supporting documents with transaction line items that you enter in the Purchasing application. For example, you can upload packing slips, bill of lading, vendor bids, equipment specifications, and images of invoices or equipment, and associate them with purchasing items. - Purchasing and Inventory and Alerts
Use alerts to notify people of the required actions that they must take or the actions already taken that are related to purchasing or inventory records. - Equipment Hub and Asset Management and/or Purchasing
The Equipment hub stores equipment items for regular projects and asset items (capital items) for overhead projects. - Purchasing and Inventory and Web Services
In addition to alerts, you can use the Web Services feature to help replicate your enterprise's purchasing and inventory business processes as they are used in reporting, receiving, and voucher posting. - Approval Process for Purchasing Applications
You can choose whether or not purchase requisitions, requests for price quotes, and purchase orders (including change orders and release orders) must go through an approval process. - Opting In to the Create RFQ Only Feature
When you opt in to the feature, you can create standalone RFQ-only records within the Purchase Requisitions application.
Parent Topic: Purchasing