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.
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.
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Some forms in the following table require information or parameter settings to navigate to them. |
Business process component task |
Form name |
Usage |
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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. |
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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. |
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Purchase requisition |
Create and modify purchase requisitions, and then submit them to Workflow. |
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Request for quote |
Create request for quote header information, such as the purchase type, delivery, and expiry dates, and delivery address information. |
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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. |
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Sending request for quote |
Send a sales quotation with the status Created, and update the status to Sent. |
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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. |
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Posting request for quote acceptance |
Post accepted request for quote replies from vendors. |
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Posting request for quote rejection |
Post rejected request for quote replies from vendors. |
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Request for quote reply |
Accept request for quote replies from vendors. |
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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. |
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Backorder lines |
View back orders for a selected vendor. |
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Calculated supplementary items |
View and select supplementary items, which are added to sales orders or purchase orders when items are sold or purchased. |
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Check intercompany order price discrepancies |
Check intercompany order price discrepancies in connection with upgrading from Microsoft Axapta 3.0 to Microsoft Dynamics AX. |
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Create purchase requisition |
Create purchase requisition header information, such as the name, requested date, and delivery address. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Delete purchase requisitions |
Select a set of purchase requisitions to delete at one time. |
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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. |
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Explode BOM |
Transfer items from a bill of material (BOM) to a purchase order line. |
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History on update |
Post purchase orders that have a job status of . |
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Intercompany action policies |
Set up the parameters that are used in intercompany sales or purchase orders. |
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Invoice journal |
Choose that an invoice is for an intercompany purchase order. |
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Invoice Journal |
View all invoiced purchase orders with details, such as invoice number, invoice currency, totals, and the lines of the individual purchase orders. |
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Open purchase order lines |
View purchase order lines that have an status. means that the purchase order lines have not been received and invoiced. |
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Packing material transactions |
Create and modify packing material transactions for purchase order lines. |
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Packing slip journal |
Choose that a packing slip is for an intercompany purchase order. |
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Posting invoice |
Post packing slips, including packing slips for intercompany purchase orders. |
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Posting invoice |
Post invoices for purchase orders. |
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Posting packing slip |
Post packing slips, including packing slips for intercompany purchase orders. |
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Posting packing slip |
Post packing slips for purchase orders. |
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Posting purchase orders |
Update, modify, and post purchase orders. |
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Purchase order |
Create a purchase order. |
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Purchase order |
Process purchase orders, including those that have been created from approved purchase requisitions. |
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Purchase order journal |
Display all purchase orders. |
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Purchase requisition statistics |
Displays the purchase requisition statistics for you and the users who report to you either directly or through another user. |
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Purchase requisitions |
Create and modify purchase requisitions, and submit them to Workflow. |
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Request for quote |
Process requests for quotes that are created from requisitions. |
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Sales order |
Create a purchase order based on a sales order. |
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Sales order |
Automatically create a purchase order with the intercompany vendor that is associated with the items. |
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Temporary sales tax transactions |
View the sales tax amounts for each sales tax code. |
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Totals |
View the totals for a purchase order. |