Purchase Requisition Form Columns

The Purchase Requisition Form contains a standard set of columns. You do not have the option to select columns for this report.

Columns

Column Description

Comments

If comments were entered on the Comments tab of the Purchase Requisitions form, those comments display in the upper left part of the form.

Requisition Number

This column displays the purchase requisition number.

Requisition Date

This column displays the date that the purchase requisition was created.

Requestor Name

This column displays the name of the employee who requested the items.

Requestor Signature

This column displays a space in which the person who requested the items can sign the requisition.

Authorized By

This column displays the name of the employee who authorized the purchase requisition.

Requisition Status

This column displays the status of the purchase requisition (for example, Approved, Rejected, In Progress, Submitted, or Closed).

Ship To

This part of the form displays the full address to which you want the items shipped.

The ship-to address can include additional contact information, such as a phone number, fax number, or email address.

If you select the Modify Shipping Contact and Email option on the General tab of the Purchasing and Inventory Company Settings form, the Ship To and E-mail fields in both the header and detail lines display modified data when appropriate.

Item

This column displays the identifier for the item or service.

All purchasing item records are created and maintained on the Items Master form (Configuration > Purchasing & Inventory > Items Master).

Description

This column displays the description of the item or service.

Qty

This column displays the number of items requested.

U/M

This column displays the unit of measure for the items (for example, Each, Box, Case, Dozen, or Hour).

Unit Price

This column displays the price per unit for the items.

The unit price always has a currency symbol, whether or not the default currency format on the Layout tab includes the currency symbol.

Total

This column displays the total cost for the requested quantity of the item.

The total cost always has a currency symbol, whether or not the default currency format on the Layout tab includes the currency symbol.

Due Date

This column displays the due date for the requested item.

Project

If the cost of the item is distributed to projects, phases, or tasks, this column displays the project number.

Name

This column displays the project name.

Phase

If the cost of the item is distributed at the phase level, this column displays the phase number.

Task

If the cost of the item is distributed at the task level, this column displays the task number.

Billable

This column contains Y or N (Yes or No) to indicate whether or not the cost of the item is billable to the project, phase, or task.

If multiple projects, phases, or tasks share the cost of a requested item, some of the cost can be billable while the rest is not.

Percentage/Unit

Multiple projects, phases, or tasks can share the cost of a requested item. In that case, Vision distributes the cost to projects based on either percentages or units. Which is used depends on the setting on the Cost Distribution tab of the Purchase Requisition Line Detail dialog box.

  • If the distribution is by percentage, this column displays the percentage of the overall cost distributed to each project, phase, or task. For example, Vision could distribute 80% of the cost to a project and the other 20% to a phase in a second project.

  • If the distribution is by units, this column displays the unit cost distributed to the project, phase, or task.

Vendor Number

This column displays the number for a suggested vendor for the requested items or services.

Vendor Name

This column displays the name of a suggested vendor for the requested items or services.

Vendor Item

This column displays the item number used by the vendor.

Price Quote?

This column contains Y or N (Yes or No) to indicate whether or not the suggested vendor has provided a price quote.