This section provides overviews of the purchasing business process components, lists the forms associated with each business process component, and discusses the tasks associated with each business process component.

Identify sources and supply

Select final supplier and negotiate

Manage purchase requisitions and orders

Purchasing business process component forms

The following table lists the forms that support the purchasing process component. The table entries are organized by business process component task and then alphabetically by form name.

Note Note

Some forms in the following table require information or parameter settings to navigate to them.


Business process component task

Form name

Usage

Identify sources and supply

Configure request for quote reply

Choose the information that you want to receive from vendors when they reply to requests for quotes.

Delete request for quote

Select a set of requests for quotes to delete at one time.

Planned purchase order

View and process planned purchase, transfer, and production orders. Planned orders are generated by master scheduling or forecast scheduling to cover requirements.

Purchase requisition

Create and modify purchase requisitions, and then submit them to Workflow.

Request for quote

Create request for quote header information, such as the purchase type, delivery, and expiry dates, and delivery address information.

Request for quote follow-up

Follow up on request for quote replies, for example, to identify which request for quote replies expire on a specific date or to identify request for quote lines that you have not received replies to.

Sending request for quote

Send a sales quotation with the status Created, and update the status to Sent.

Select final supplier and negotiate

Compare

Compare request for quote replies and accept and reject request for quote replies.

Compare requests for quotes

Find the request for quote for which to compare replies from vendors.

Posting request for quote acceptance

Post accepted request for quote replies from vendors.

Posting request for quote rejection

Post rejected request for quote replies from vendors.

Request for quote reply

Accept request for quote replies from vendors.

Manage purchase requisitions and orders

Address selection

Create, edit, or reuse vendor or customer addresses.

Allocate misc. charges

Allocate miscellaneous charges to multiple lines on a purchase order or invoice.

Backorder lines

View back orders for a selected vendor.

Calculated supplementary items

View and select supplementary items, which are added to sales orders or purchase orders when items are sold or purchased.

Check intercompany order price discrepancies

Check intercompany order price discrepancies in connection with upgrading from Microsoft Axapta 3.0 to Microsoft Dynamics AX.

Create purchase requisition

Create purchase requisition header information, such as the name, requested date, and delivery address.

Create release order

Create a release order if a customer wants to order against a blanket order. You create release orders from blanket orders to release, deliver, and invoice items until the contract is fulfilled.

Delete history of update

Delete the history of updates. You might do this when you upgrade from earlier versions of Microsoft Dynamics AX, because deleting the history of updates is less demanding on system resources.

Delete purchase requisitions

Select a set of purchase requisitions to delete at one time.

Endpoints

Configure endpoints for data transfer. For inbound transfers, the endpoint is the source; for outbound transfers, the endpoint is the destination. For example, trading partners are endpoints.

Explode BOM

Transfer items from a bill of material (BOM) to a purchase order line.

History on update

Post purchase orders that have a job status of .

Intercompany action policies

Set up the parameters that are used in intercompany sales or purchase orders.

Invoice journal

Choose that an invoice is for an intercompany purchase order.

Invoice Journal

View all invoiced purchase orders with details, such as invoice number, invoice currency, totals, and the lines of the individual purchase orders.

Open purchase order lines

View purchase order lines that have an status. means that the purchase order lines have not been received and invoiced.

Packing material transactions

Create and modify packing material transactions for purchase order lines.

Packing slip journal

Choose that a packing slip is for an intercompany purchase order.

Posting invoice

Post packing slips, including packing slips for intercompany purchase orders.

Posting invoice

Post invoices for purchase orders.

Posting packing slip

Post packing slips, including packing slips for intercompany purchase orders.

Posting packing slip

Post packing slips for purchase orders.

Posting purchase orders

Update, modify, and post purchase orders.

Purchase order

Create a purchase order.

Purchase order

Process purchase orders, including those that have been created from approved purchase requisitions.

Purchase order journal

Display all purchase orders.

Purchase requisition statistics

Displays the purchase requisition statistics for you and the users who report to you either directly or through another user.

Purchase requisitions

Create and modify purchase requisitions, and submit them to Workflow.

Request for quote

Process requests for quotes that are created from requisitions.

Sales order

Create a purchase order based on a sales order.

Sales order

Automatically create a purchase order with the intercompany vendor that is associated with the items.

Temporary sales tax transactions

View the sales tax amounts for each sales tax code.

Totals

View the totals for a purchase order.