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.
When You Use Approval Workflows
When you use approval workflows to approve Purchasing and Inventory records, you choose the alerts to be sent at various times during the approval process. For example, you can send alerts to notify people when records are ready for them to approve, when records are rejected, when records are approved, and so on. You select and configure alerts for each step of an approval workflow on the Workflow tab in
, in the desktop application.In addition, you can create alerts to notify people when a purchase order has been final printed and when goods are received. You configure these alerts in
.When You Do Not Use Approval Workflows
When you do not use approval workflows to approve Purchasing and Inventory records, you can create and configure alerts in , in the desktop application. For example, you can send alerts to notify buyers when a purchase order, requisition, or request for price quote that they requested has been submitted (and thus approved) or rejected.When you Enable Purchase Orders in the Browser Application
When you select the Enable Selected Purchasing Applications in the Web Application option in , Vantagepoint opens the Purchase Orders form in the browser application ( ) for each purchase order alert that you receive through email or the Notification Center.
If you use an approval workflow and you are assigned to an approval step, Vantagepoint opens the purchase order approval task in
when you click the link in the email message or the action item in the Notification Center.