About Using Purchase Orders With Inventory Control

If you use Inventory Control:

  • Purchase Orders displays item numbers, inventory locations, and price list information from Inventory Control when you enter transactions. If you use the Allow Receipt Of Non-stock Items in Inventory Control, you can also use non-stock items in Purchase Orders transactions.
  • Optional field information from inventory items will appear by default in P/O transaction detail lines if you use the same optional fields in both programs.
  • Purchase Orders transactions are processed by Day End Processing in Inventory Control.
  • You can use the Create POs From I/C screen to create purchase orders from the reorder quantities information entered for items in Inventory Control.

At posting, Purchase Orders transactions affect Inventory Control item quantities as follows:

  • Purchase orders increase the item quantities on purchase order in Inventory Control.
  • Receipts increase quantities on hand in Inventory Control and decrease quantities on purchase order, if a purchase order is specified on the receipt.
  • Returns of items to inventory decrease item quantities on hand in Inventory Control.

During posting or day-end processing (depending on when you do item costing in Inventory Control):

  • Item costing information is updated in Inventory Control.
  • Statistics and history are updated in both Purchase Orders and Inventory Control (if you keep history and statistics in both programs).

Printing item labels

When you specify a number of labels for inventory items on Purchase Orders receipts, the number is used by the I/C Item Labels screen to determine how many labels to print for each item received. If you change the number of item labels for a detail on a previously posted Purchase Orders receipt and you have not yet printed the labels, the number of labels is updated in Inventory Control.